false awakenings
Lately I've been having vivid, memorable dreams, which is good. Last night I didn't sleep so I couldn't really dream, but the night before I went to a mysterious foreign destination with my family and engaged in a highly distressing war. I nearly died when a man brushed the tip of his poison-filled syringe against my fingertip, but then I got him back by impaling him with nine multicoloured pencils. Somehow I missed all of his vital organs and he was fine afterwards.
The night before that, I murdered my father and cannibalized him (except my dream-father wasn't much like my real father) and then later the story changed so that he died by drowning instead. I also flew around over my house-top. My house was staggered with another similar one, and they were surrounded with nature and curvy grey highways and rose trellises.
Being able to remember my dreams makes me happy (although sometimes the gory violence can be disturbing) because that puts me one step closer to lucid dreaming. I haven't had a lucid dream that I can remember since grades 9/10, and I want them to come back. Dreams in which you have high consciousness and control are the best kind of dream because the possibilities are limitless. You can do things in dreams that aren't possible in real life; I used to fly a lot in mine, but I've heard of other people interrogating dream characters (which are supposed to be the key to your subconscious), travelling, practicing for big events, transforming into animals, being ninjas, even composing music or trying to cram for an exam. Of course, there's always dreamsex too.
In other news, my inquiry interview today was a disaster.
Syntax tree diagrams are calling my name, but they can wait a bit. I wish I could do this well in courses that are actually related to my program.