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dream Dream: Friday 07 August 2015 05:00

Trip to Reading

Semi-Lucid Dream (L1)

My memory of this dream is a little bit fragmented.

The first part I remember is driving home from my mum's house, and on the way driving past Reading. Yu Lee said that she wanted to go there, so we changed our route and drove into the city centre. As we approached it, we realised that the only way into Reading was to drive over a bridge where you had to pay a toll, so we pulled up in front of the bridge and walked in.

I don't remember much of being there, but we definitely bought some cinema tickets to watch a film in a couple of days' time. After that we drove home.

When we came back a few days later, we stayed in a hotel. The hotel room had two single beds instead of a double, so I slept in one of them and Yu Lee slept in the other.

In the night I woke up and opened my eyes. I could see the ceiling of the hotel room, but everything looked a bit strange, and then I realised that I was dreaming and became lucid.

I hovered up into the air, and was amazed by how realistic the room looked - even in my dream the hotel room looked exactly like the hotel room in real life (which I didn't realise was also in a dream). I looked around for a while, thinking "what should I do now," and was surprised that the dream wasn't fading despite me doing nothing. I tried to fly but it wasn't really working, and instead I just stayed there, hovering about a metre above the floor.

I looked over at Yu Lee sleeping in the other bed, and then I realised that I was actually waking up. All of a sudden I was back in my bed in the hotel room.

I don't remember any more of the dream, and I didn't wake up from it. It was weird how I had a lucid dream inside a dream, and then had a false awakening.

dream Dream: Saturday 25 July 2015 08:50

Drips

I dreamt that I'd been having some work done on the house, and the builders had just finished. I was at home, in the bedroom, and it was raining outside, when all of a sudden I noticed some drips coming from the ceiling.

I got a step ladder and removed a part of the ceiling to investigate, but by the time I'd done that the rain had stopped and the ceiling was no longer dripping. When I opened up the ceiling I found that the build had left some junk behind including a couple of his tools.

I could hear a sound like running water coming from underneath the floorboards in the middle of the room, so I lifted a couple of floorboards to see what was underneath. When I lifted the floorboards I found a pair of pliers and some other random tools there too.

We couldn't find the leak, and were debating spraying the roof with the hosepipe to see if we could get water to come through, but in the end we decided it probably wouldn't be enough water.

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: Tuesday 12 May 2015 04:00

On the Wing

I was going somewhere, probably Spain, and on my flight something weird was going to be happening. Someone was going to be taking the same flight as me, but for some reason she was going to be outside the plane on its wing.

Apparently this was something that had been done before. The girl would be strapped to the wing, and would have a large, round tarpaulin on top of her, like a flat tent strapped onto the wing. She was also going to have a couple of dogs with her.

I was talking to someone about this as I boarded the plane, and they said that it should be perfectly safe as long as she stays under the tarpaulin and doesn't lift the edges. They went on to tell me that someone had tried to do it with chickens before, but the chickens got curious and tried to crawl out from under the edge of the tarpaulin, causing the a gap in the edge. The air got under the edge and ripped it off of the plane along with the passenger and all the rest of their chickens.

A little while later we are sitting in our seats and the plane is about to take off. I'm right at the front of the plane and I have a window facing forwards, and I can see the nose of the plane emerging from the bottom of my view out the window. This is obviously nothing like a normal passenger jet!

We take off and start to fly. We are following the path of a river and still flying quite low, and there are large hills on either side of us. There's an announcement from the cockpit saying that we've taken off and are about to fly to cruising altitude.

The pilot suddenly increases the throttle and we can feel the plane accelerate, and the nose lifts slightly but we are not ascending very steeply. We're still in the valley between the hills and I can see that the tops of the hills are above the level of the plane.

As we're flying, we're approaching the mouth of the river and I can see the ocean out in front. The plane starts to turn and I start to think that I'll feel safer when we don't have these hills on either side of us.

All of sudden, something happens and the plane starts to turn very quickly, and nose starts to point down towards the water. The nose then touches the river and the plane spins very quickly, and I can suddenly see the tail of the plane outside the window, so I know that the plane has broken in half. Within seconds we have crashed into the shallow water at the foot of the hills.

After a brief pause, I realise what has happened. The first thing I think of is the girl on the wing of the plane, and when I look out of the window her tarpaulin is gone.

The next thing that crosses my mind is how softly the plane crashed into the ground. Although the plane jolted and broke in half, no-one on my side of the plane seems to be hurt and there is no fire or smoke anywhere.

I get up and start to move towards the exit, but then I decide that I'm not going anywhere without my rucksack. I walk back towards my seat and one of the cabin crew tells me to leave it, but I say that I'm not going anywhere without it and retrieve it from the overhead locker.

I definitely got off the plane, with my rucksack, but I don't remember anything else from this dream.

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: Friday 08 May 2015 07:55

Eating Fish

I don't remember who I was with, but I was definitely with a group of people in a fish restaurant. The restaurant was an "eat as much as you like" kind of thing, but instead of a normal buffet, you could simply keep ordering without it adding anything to the bill.

The first thing I ordered was a thick, white, square fillet of fish which came with chips and some vegetables on the the side. I don't remember the name of it, but I remember that all of the different fishes I ate had really long, unusual names that I couldn't even remember in my dream.

Once I'd finished the fish fillet, my friend recommended me a different type of fish to try. This one came out as a much smaller fillet, and it was also quite thick but was a long thin strip. It was another white fish but it tasted similar to prawns, or maybe monk fish.

By the time I'd finished my second piece of fish I'd eaten most of the sides but still had some left so I ordered one more piece of fish. I was expecting it to be small like the second one, but instead when it came out it was an entire fish and it was enormous!

I finished the sides pretty quickly after that and ended up with just the fish on my plate. When I cut into it, the flesh was a deep dark red, unlike any fish I've ever tasted and it had a heavy, rich flavour. It was most similar to salmon or swordfish but richer and heavier.

I sat there picking at the fish, and although it was delicious, I was too full to finish it.

dream Dream: Tuesday 05 May 2015 08:30

Roast Chicken

Tags: Dad Heather Trish

I dreamt that I was at my nan's house (my nan on my dad's side) and for some reason here cooker wasn't working and I had to cook roast chicken for everyone.

In the end, I set the chicken up on the work surface and put a small metal burner, that looked like a tin can, underneath the chicken. I kept checking the chicken but it was taking ages to cook.

After waiting for a couple of hours I went to get my meat thermometer, and when I found it it was on the arm of a chair where my cousin, Heather, was sitting. She told me that she'd borrowed it to do her nails. When I picked up the thermometer it was all bent, and then I realised that whatever she had been doing with it had been so hot that it had melted the end of the thermometer. I told her that she'd ruined it and that she shouldn't use it if she was testing temperatures above 300ºC.

I took the thermometer out to the kitchen, although I didn't think it would still work. When I got to the chicken, someone had cut the wings and legs off of it so that only the breast and some of the carcass was left. My dad walked in at that moment and I showed him what had happened, and he said that Trish must have done it because it was taking so long to cook. He was really annoyed about it and went to confront her.

I was frustrated because I was sure the whole thing would have been cooked by that point anyway.

dream Dream: Saturday 02 May 2015 07:50

Visiting my Friend in Enfield

I dreamt that I was visiting a friend who had just moved into a new house in Enfield (in North London). This wasn't a friend from real life but was just a dream character. I'd head a lot about his new house and it sounded really cool.

I don't exactly remember the first part of the dream, but I walked to his house and as soon as I got there things started to go wrong. We'd barely got inside when someone turned up, and although I can't remember exactly what happened, I remember that my friend ended up shooting him dead in the hallway! My friend then handed me a two-way radio and told me to go for a walk and come back later.

I left the house and started to walk down the street, and as I was walking I saw a big, black four wheel drive car driving slowly down the road. Another car approached it from the front so the black car slowed down and tried to pass, but the other car intentionally moved into the way so that they collided. The black car then put his car into reverse and reversed very quickly, but another car appeared out of nowhere and moved into a similar position behind it. Again the black car hit the other car before coming to a stop.

At this point the car had been boxed in by both cars. All three cars opened their doors and drivers got out, and the driver of the black car had an assault rifle. He pointed it at the other men and told them to put their hands on their heads and go into a building. Just for a moment the man with the gun made eye contact with me, and I quickened my pace and walked away as fast as I could. I looked back and saw them going inside the house next door to my friend's place.

I power walked around the corner, trying to get away from the crazy people as quickly as I could. One thought that popped into my head was that maybe this last event was in our favour. We still had a dead guy laying on the hallway floor of my friend's house, and maybe the police would think it was related to the crazy guy in the black car!

I started to think that I needed to contact my friend. I pulled out the radio and turned it on.

I was expecting to hear static, but to my surprise, as soon as I turned it on I heard people talking. In the bottom right hand corner was a small knob that said "channel select", so I played with it for a while but there were only four channels. I soon realised that people were talking on all of the channels, so I couldn't really use it to contact my friend.

I was still walking at this point, and the streets didn't look like London any more. I was walking along the side of a main road, and there were fields and small patches of woodland on either side of me, and I could just barely make out the city in the direction I'd come from.

I took my mobile out of my pocket and called my friend, and told him that people were talking on every channel on the radio. He told me that was normal at this time of the day, and then he told me to come back to his house.

When I got back to his house the body was gone and everything seemed normal. He asked me if I wanted "the tour" and I said "yes."

The downstairs hallway was tiled with large, pale tiles, and there were two doorways into other rooms and a staircase leading up to the first floor. We approached the first doorway and he told me it was the bathroom, but we could hear someone inside and he told me that his wife was taking a shower so we couldn't go in there.

Then we walked across the hallway to the other door, and he told me this was his second bathroom. I thought it was odd that both bathrooms were next to each other! We went inside and it was massive and very luxurious.

Next we went upstairs and into his bedroom. As we were looking around, his wife knocked on the door and we told her we were in here. She told us that she needed to get dressed, but not to worry because we could stay in the bedroom and she would get dressed in the hallway.

This is the last thing I remember before waking up.

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.