Sleep Log

Sunday 25 May 2014 23:45 to 05:02

(5:17 hours)

We went to bed relatively early last night, and I didn't fell particularly tired. I think I dozed for a while, and fell asleep properly after midnight.

I woke up from a dream at 2:00am, and then got up to go to the toilet. I felt a little uneasy as I'd just been dreaming about zombies and the house seemed very dark and quiet.

When I went back to the bedroom I took a few notes on my zombie dream.

I went back to sleep and slept through to another dream at 5:00am. I laid in bed for a while, and Yu Lee cuddled up to me so I laid there longer than usual. Then I started to fall asleep again so decided to get up before I fell asleep properly.


Dreams:
Zombie Appocalypse
Mike's House
dream Dream: Monday 26 May 2014 01:55

Zombie Appocalypse

Tags: Yu Lee

At some point in the dream there is a scene of a prison break. I have no idea of how this relates to the main narrative, and to be honest I may not have actually dreamt this part, but I had a memory of it during the rest of my dream.

The rest of the dream is about me and Yu Lee in a survival situation. There is a large area that is infested with zombies, and we are hiding out in a derelict house. The problem is that we have run out of supplies, and everything that we need is in the zombie infected area. I don't remember actually seeing any zombies, but we knew they were there.

From time to time Yu Lee decides that she needs to run off and get some supplies. One thing that she keeps doing is going to get the password for something, and I'm annoyed because I remember the password, but she just quickly runs off before I can say anything.

Each time that she goes I feel very scared and alone, and I'm really worried for her. I repeat over and over in my head "please come back" the whole time that she is gone.

At some point a little later in the dream, we need to go into the zombie area and get some kind of chord, and bring it back to the house. It's like an electricity cable that we need to plug in to give power to the ruins. Yu Lee returns with the chord, but the problem is that it's connected to something far from the house where the zombies are. I tell her the zombies could easily follow the chord back to us and find us.

I grab hold of the chord and give it a gentle tug. I tell Yu Lee that I can feel by the resistance on it that a zombie is holding onto it and that it's only a matter of time before they find us!

For some reason, Yu Lee decides that we need to cook some peas. She hands me a bag of frozen peas and a saucepan, and then says she's going back into the zombie area to get some water. I tell her that I don't need water to cook the peas but she's gone already.

I turn to the stove, and it is an electric stove with metal heating elements for each ring. Some of the heating elements are missing entirely, and the one I want to use is intact, but the middle section is missing, meaning there is a hole in the centre which is just bigger than the base of the pan.

I'm trying to work out how to cook the peas on the strange, broken hob when Yu Lee appears outside in the distance, looking distressed and running away from something. I look behind her in the distance and sure enough there is a figure running in her direction.

Yu Lee hides behind some rocks, but the figure advances and I can't tell if he's seen her or not. Then more figures appear and there is a group of them. I start to think that they are not moving like zombies, and Yu Lee seems to notice something at the same time. All of a sudden she stands up a beckons for me to come to her.

The group of zombies get closer, and now I can see that they are not zombies at all. I suddenly realise that they are escaped prisoners running away from jail, and I realise that Yu Lee has decided to run away with the prisoners. It looks like we have an escape plan!

At this point I woke up in my bed at 2:00am.

dream Dream: Monday 26 May 2014 05:02

Mike's House

The first part of my dream takes place in some kind of building, like a school or an office. All of the people there are from my school, but we are adults. There are a series of activities that we have to do, each one in a different location, like a different room or outside.

For the first few activities we'd broken up into groups and sat with our friends each time, but on arriving at the last activity the lady in charge told us not to sit in the same groups each time, so we all sat together in one big group. I don't remember anything about the actual activities we were doing though.

The second part of my dream takes place at Mike's house.

We arrive outside his house, and the first task is to get inside. As I come up to the front door, there is a weird tiled staircase / ramp leading up to his front door. The trouble is that the steps start at about chest height, and everything below chest height is a tiled slope with a very steep gradient, probably around 65 degrees! The tiles are polished and very smooth, and I'm not sure that I'll be able to climb them.

In my dream, I can remember doing this as a kid. I would put my foot on the tiled slope and launch myself up it, and the treads on my shoes would somehow have enough traction for me to push up onto the steps. I remember thinking that although the tiles were smooth and glossy, that my shoes could get some grip on the gaps in between them.

Anyway, back in the current day (in my dream) I look at the weird slope and feel that I don't have the confidence to launch myself up it, so I ask Mike if there is another way up. He points to the space next to the slope, and there is an old looking tiled staircase that reaches half way up to the level of the door, but he tells me they haven't used it in years and that it might not work.

I start to climb the staircase, but in doing so it becomes clear that the concrete underneath the tiles is no longer there, and I slowly begin to sink downwards as the tiles give way under my weight. I pretty much just stand there and sink slowly into the ground, until in the end I'm in a pit which is as deep as I am tall.

I can't remember how I get out of the pit but I remember it is a bit of an ordeal.

After that I compose myself and am feeling nervous for some reason. He gives me something to stand on, and I go back down in the pit, and this time somehow manage to reach his front door.

Upon entering his house I notice how nicely decorated everything is, which isn't exactly the way I remember his house in real life! He tells me to poke my head around the kitchen door and say hello to his dad, so I do this. His dad is sitting in the kitchen and is much younger that in real life. I say "do you remember me?" and he replies "Of course I do, Steve."

We chat for a minute and I go back into the living room, and he calls after me "if you want some crisps I'm afraid you'll have to help yourself."

The other main thing I remember is Mike showing me some music he's composed using Fruity Loops. He shows me his songs and we talk a bit about how he made them. He tells me that he set up a microphone controller so that he can blow into the mic to do pitch bends. I tell him that I used to do a simple version of this with my music, and that as I was only doing dance music, I used to set it to bend the pitch upwards when I blew into the microphone, as upwards pitch bends are commonly used to do fills in dance music. (This is all complete bollocks and I never did this in real life.)