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dream Dream: Thursday 08 October 2015 07:49

Expensive Beer

Tags: Yu Lee
Semi-Lucid Dream (L1)

This was my first night back in my own bed after spending two weeks in Italy, and the first dream I had was about being on holiday!

I had the feeling that I was in Spain, although I definitely spoke Italian at one point. I don't remember many details of the dream, but I do remember one section of it in detail.

I'm on my own: Yu Lee is on holiday with me, but at this particular moment she is somewhere else. I'm in the middle of a town centre and looking for somewhere to have a beer. I end up talking to a couple of other tourists and we go to a bar together, and we choose a bar that specialises in local craft beers.

The bar isn't inside a building: the actual bar and some seating are in the corner of a busy square. Also, the bar has several containers of different beers on the counter top, each of them looking like a giant cardboard carton with a tap at the bottom.

I ask the others what beer they want and they choose one, so I decided to have the same one too and order three beers. The barman fills up three glasses from one of the containers and I get my money out ready to pay.

I put my hands into my pockets, and instead of having my wallet with me I just have loads of loose change, so I get it out and spread it over the bar to count it. The weird thing is that instead of being gold and silver, most of the coins are all black. I look at them closely and realise that looking directly down at the pile of coins, the ones at the top of my vision are black, and then they fade back to being normal coin colours at the bottom of my field of vision.

At that moment, I realise that this is a "rendering bug", and that I am dreaming, but for some reason the coins aren't displaying correctly in my dream. I become lucid, and thoughts race through my head of all the things that I can do, but then I think to myself that whenever I try to fly or do anything like that, the dream always starts to fade out. I decide that I can't be bothered with that, and I allow myself to lose lucidity.

By the time the barman has come back to me I am no longer lucid. I ask him how much the bill is, and he tells me that each of the beers is €74.00! I tell him this is a rip off, and he tells me that it's clearly marked on the board. When I look at the board I can just about make out the prices but they aren't very clear.

I grab my glass and say "no thank you", and pour it into a bin behind the bar. I walk away from the bar and leave the others there.

dream Dream: Sunday 06 September 2015 09:32

Rocket

Tags: Dad Sue Yu Lee

Me and Yu Lee are in Spain with my dad and Sue, sitting outside around a table. The weather is nice with a clear blue sky, and the sun is already getting low in the sky.

We're sitting around talking, when all of a sudden I hear a noise, like a jet engine. I can tell that it's really loud but really far away.

My dad says "Watch this, I've seen this loads of times and it's really good," and points towards a spot on the horizon. I look where he's pointing and notice a rocket rising up above the hills and trees in the distance.

The rocket is enormous and red, and as it rises I notice that there were 5 or 7 small white objects attached to it. (I know it was an odd number as one of them was in the centre of the rocket with an equal number of the other white objects on either side.)

The rocket flies straight upwards for a while, and then all of a sudden the white objects detach from it and fly off. I suddenly realise that they are small white vehicles, like miniature versions of the space shuttle.

"They're doing a test flight. Normally they launch these massive satellites into space," my dad explains to me.

The next thing that happens has me in awe. The rocket slows its ascent, and then starts to descend slowly towards the ground. It doesn't turn it's engines off but merely reduces the throttle, and maybe 10 seconds later land back in the same spot that it took off from.

I think I've been reading a little bit too much about SpaceX!

The dream felt very surreal, and I was completely captivated by the rocket.

dream Dream: Sunday 19 July 2015 07:43

Visiting Dad and Sue (and Mandy?)

I dreamt that I was visiting Dad and Sue in Spain. The first part that I remember was arriving at a bar.

I don't particularly remember getting to the bar, but I'm pretty sure they picked me up from the airport and took me straight there. It also wasn't their regular bar, or even the kind of place that they would normally go to. It seemed more like a hotel with a bar area and several other seating areas too.

When we were sat at the table, someone came in that they knew and they asked us if we were going to something beginning with 'S' (I don't remember the name of it now). My dad was not impressed with the suggestion and ranted a little about why he wouldn't want to go there. I'm not sure what exactly it was but it sounded like some kind of bar.

After the people moved on and found a table, we started talking again. Dad was saying he didn't know what to do for dinner tonight, and Sue said that she didn't want to eat out. Dad said that he didn't have anything in to make dinner and it was a Sunday so everywhere would be closed where we could buy food, so eating out was our only option. Sue was insisting that she didn't want to go out but Dad was telling her that there really was no other option.

Once we'd finished our drinks we left. We walked through one of the other rooms in the bar and there was a round table with about 10 English people sitting around in. They seemed to recognise me and asked me if I was going to the place beginning with 'S' and I thought it sounded interesting. I asked Dad what it was and he told me it was the place we were talking about earlier and that it was awful, so I told them I wasn't going and we left.

When we were outside we had to walk for a while to get home. I was talking about the seaside for some reason so Dad led us on a bit of a detour so that we could go via the sea. We didn't actually go to the beach but it was nice to see the sea.

On the way back home I was moaning about Yu Lee. I was annoyed that we only had one car, and was saying it was annoying when I come here because it means that I don't have a car when I get here. Dad said "you can always borrow our car," and as he was replying I realised what I was saying actually made no sense at all: even if we had two cars I would still have to leave the second car at the airport and rent a car here so it wouldn't help at all!

We arrived at my dad's place, but this was an apartment building instead of the villa he lives in in real life. I'm not sure why, but for some reason I was wearing a suit.

We entered the apartment building and it had a really confusing layout with lots of corridors and staircases. We started to head up towards his apartment, through several corridors and up some staircases. The look and feel of the place where we were had slowly progressed from the usual Spanish rendered concrete apartment building to something a lot more luxurious and old-fashioned: the area we were in now had lots of woodwork, with dark wooden panels on the walls and staircases with traditional wooden banisters.

As I walked up a flight of stairs I came to a section that was really narrow. The whole area was made of wood and you had to kind of turn sideways and squeeze through a very narrow doorway. I couldn't quite fit, and I felt that my suit was too cumbersome to be able to move into the right position.

I looked round and Dad and Sue were waiting at the bottom of the stairway I'd just climbed, with a look on their faces that said "And that's why we never go that way!"

I walked back down to them and we went a different way. Then things got really weird.

Suddenly Sue was my aunt Mandy, and we were walking up another narrow staircase. My dad was behind me and Mandy (or Sue?) was behind him. All of a sudden she started trying to kiss him, and then she leaned right in and was really kissing him. She put her hand out to lean onto something and it landed on the back of my leg, so that she was kind of leaning on me. I found the whole situation pretty uncomfortable so I hurried up and continued up the stairs, but she was leaning on my leg harder than I'd realised so she fell over forwards and landed on my dad.

"Ow Steve, I was leaning on you!" she shrieked at me as I hurried onwards towards the apartment.

This is the last thing I remember before waking.

dream Dream: Tuesday 12 May 2015 07:53

Voices

Tags: Yu Lee

Me and Yu Lee are on holiday in Spain. We're outside and wandering around some kind of Spanish city.

We're talking about something, when Yu Lee makes a remark about keep hearing voices in her head. I start to get a little bit worried and tell her that it's not right to hear voices, but she reassures me that it's nothing, and says that she can't hear them say anything in particular, and that it just sounds like a lot of people talking at the same time. She also tells me that she doesn't hear them all of the time, and that it comes and goes.

I suddenly have a flashback to a conversation we had earlier. Yu Lee was telling me about her work (she must have still worked at Babraham in my dream) and said that she had to do a presentation, but she had this voice in her head telling her to get some of the other employees to do it for her. She said it was stupid because she had no choice but to do it herself, and they obviously wouldn't do her work for her.

I remind Yu Lee that she'd told me this, and she still says that it's harmless.

"Do you know what they call it when you have voices in your head Yu Lee?" I ask her getting more and more anxious.

"I know" she replies, but I interject:

"Schizophrenia!"

I am starting to get upset now and keep on having a go at her.

"It's okay at the moment while you can't hear exactly what they're saying, but you've already had them giving you instructions, and what happens when they're constantly telling you 'You're shit, Yu Lee, you might as well just kill yourself'?"

dream Dream: Saturday 09 May 2015 08:16

Big Fish Tank

Tags: Yu Lee

I dreamt that I had a very large fish tank in my house, with a couple of large fish in it which I think might have been rays. The tank was a couple of metres long and must have held hundreds of litres of water.

I was doing a water change, and I'd already siphoned out the waste water and was just topping it back up. As I was filling the tank with water I suddenly noticed that the floor was very wet, and when I looked down at the tank the "glass" has warped and bent away from the tank, making a gap where the water could get out. The glass looked like a thin sheet of plastic due to the way it was curving inside the tank, away from the bottom.

I called Yu Lee in to help me and I was very stressed as water was going everywhere. We eventually managed to bend the glass back and stop the leak.

I was explaining to Yu Lee how I hated the fish tank because it was a bit broken, and although it was watertight if I left it alone, I had to be really careful each time I did a water change otherwise the seal would break and make a mess.

I continued to do my water change, but this time I made sure the flow of water into the tank was a lot slower.

dream Dream: Saturday 02 May 2015 06:00

What Happened to My Aquarium?

Tags: Yu Lee

I came downstairs in the morning, and the lights were still off in my aquarium, but there was just enough light from the room to see inside. All of the plants seemed to have died and been taken over by a new plant. I could see movement in the tank, and the new plant looked very much like a venus fly trap, except it was highly mobile and kept opening and closing.

I looked closer at the tank and then realised that the plant must have eaten all of my snails!

I felt very frustrated that a weed had taken over my tank and ruined everything, and when Yu Lee came down stairs I showed her too. The carnivorous plant was creepy and I was disgusted by it, and didn't know what to do with the tank.

dream Dream: Friday 01 May 2015 08:02

Game Show with my Ex

Tags: Lauryn Yu Lee

I don't remember any details of this dream, but I was taking part in some kind of reality TV show, and Lauryn was there. At one point we definitely kissed.

After a while, I realised that I had to choose between her and Yu Lee, so I chose Yu Lee and decided to keep my distance from Lauryn.

dream Dream: Wednesday 29 April 2015 07:50

Algae

Tags: Yu Lee

I dreamt that we had a huge garden, like the kind you would expect to be behind a huge stately home. Down the centre of the garden was a lawn, and the lawn was surrounded by water. The edge of the water was lined with concrete slabs, and there were "walls" dividing up the ponds that came up to the same height as the concrete slabs at the water's edge.

I came home one day and went out into my garden and looked around. All of the plants that were at the edge of the ponds or growing out of them were doing really well, and were a deep, lush shade of green, but the water itself was so full of algae that you couldn't see through it any more and it almost looked like a lawn.

I walked up to the water's edge, and then stepped out onto one of the "walls" of slabs that were dividing the water. I walked along it and it branched several times, and a few minutes later I was in the middle of the pond on a platform one paving slab thick.

Yu Lee came home and joined me, also working her way towards me over the slabs.

When she got close to me we talked for a while. I was saying how lovely the plants looked, but that we had to do something about the algae in the water. As I was talking I was wandering around, and several times I nearly stepped off of the platform I was on, forgetting that the green all around me wasn't grass but was water.

After a while we decided to head back towards the house, and started working our way back along the platforms. After a few minutes we realised that there was no obvious way back, and that all of the platforms ended in the middle of the pond.

We stood on one of the platforms for a while, trying to work out how to get back, when all of a sudden a moving slab of concrete came into view. It had 4 bolt holes on the top where it was obviously screwed into something under the water's surface, and whatever it was screwed into seemed to be running along a track underneath the water's surface, and went back an forth from the middle of the pond to the edge closest to the garden.

When the platform came near to us, Yu Lee and I both stepped on it, and as we did so it began to slowly sink. In a second it was below the surface and we were in water up to our ankles.

We quickly stepped back off of the platform and decided that next time it came close to us, one of us would step on it and see if it would hold our weight.

This is the last thing I remember.

dream Dream: Sunday 15 March 2015 10:18

Beetles

Tags: Shaolin Yu Lee

I dreamt that we were back at 35 York Avenue (for the second time this morning) and we were in the workshop at the bottom of the garden. The place was a mess and me and Yu Lee were tidying it up. The weird thing was that my bed was also in the workshop, so I guess we were living there.

When I was making the bed I noticed that there were some lumpy bits underneath the sheet so I lifted a section of the sheet up and looked inside. Underneath the sheet were hundreds of beetles, and they were pretty large, about 2cm long. The beetles scurried away when they saw the light and hid at the other end of the bed.

The main thing I remember thinking is that it was weird that I'd never noticed them before. I'd been sleeping on the bed and had never once felt the lumps or movement underneath the sheet.

At that moment someone called on of us (I don't remember who) on the phone and we had to go round the corner to the hair salon where Shaolin was going to cut our hair. We all left what we were doing and headed there together.

I don't remember exactly who was there but there were 5 or 6 of us. At least 2 other people were already there, waiting to get their hair cut, and so I was basically 8th in line to get my hair cut. I waited for a few minutes and then got really annoyed at having to waste so much time. I told the others to call me when I was next as it would only take a couple of minutes to get there.

I went back home to try and sort out my bed and finish tidying up. I don't remember anything else that happened.

dream Dream: Sunday 15 March 2015 08:30

Kitchen Designer

Tags: Yu Lee

In this dream we were at my mum's house at 35 York Avenue, except the house belonged to me and Yu Lee. We wanted to redo our kitchen so we'd hired a kitchen designer to come to the house for a consultation.

The kitchen designer was a lady in her mid-thirties with dark brown hair in a ponytail. When she arrived at the house we were doing something, so we asked her to wait in the hallway for a minute while we finished what we were doing in the front room. We got so distracted with what we were doing that we forgot all about the kitchen designer, and by the time we'd remembered 2 whole hours had passed.

I went into the hallway to see if she was still there, and she was laying on the floor sleeping. I called out to her a few times but she was sleeping really deeply, and in the end I had to shake her gently to wake her up. When she woke up she was a bit confused and embarrassed, and couldn't believe that she'd slept for 2 hours.

We all walked through into the kitchen, and at that moment something else happened in the front room again. We told her we'd be right back and left her in the kitchen to take care of whatever was happening. Once again we got distracted and ended up spending a lot of time in the front room, and when we got back another 2 hours had passed and the designer was asleep on the kitchen floor.

I woke her up again and told her that she must not be getting enough sleep. We started the consultation and the first thing that we said is that we really wanted a big range cooker. The lady told us that they only have 2 different types of built in oven, and we said that if that was the case then we weren't interested.

The lady looked annoyed at having spent over 4 hours at our house for no reason. She said something about having to work late because she had several other houses to visit.