I was in a city which reminded me somewhat of L.A.. I was driving a car and on the freeway. Much of the city was concrete. Concrete buildings, roads, and pavement. There were many overpasses and off ramps and the freeways were only 2-3 lanes. There was a good amount of traffic but it flowed very quickly. Almost too quickly. The speed the cars were traveling was quite fast. There was a specific destination I kept attempting to get to, but no matter how many times I tried, I could not catch the correct off ramp. I either couldn't make a lane change in time or took the wrong exit ramp which would force me in the opposite direction. I would spend extra time trying heading back to the correct location to take MY off ramp. This occurred over and over again. I woke up before I got to my destination. There was no GPS, though I don't often use one. I was frustrated because I am VERY good with directions in waking life.

*It is highly likely that much of this is day residue since the dreambot run for the 29th was Nuclear Explosion and I was reading through that botruns last night which also have a moving theme.
I was walking round what seemed to be Washington D.C. I hovered high above in the sky and could see Washington D. C. from where I was at, many miles away. There was a feeling apprehension in the air. Suddenly, a nuclear explosion occurred. It looked like it might be near the National Mall.
It was a large explosion, but not a large "nuclear" explosion. It was somewhat like the explosion China had a few weeks ago, but taller and not as wide. Next I was in Europe, near Paris, France. The distance between D.C. and France was more like the distance between the U.K. and France. I was trying to figure out how much radiation I had been exposed too from the explosion. I wandered the European streets realizing I was homeless. I was also a teenager. I began to learn what was surrounding my new neighborhood. I discovered that the French government was going to provide some food and care for the new orphans, of which I was now one it seemed. I was unsure if I should identify myself as one or not. Another orphan I knew was just over the age of 18 and would not be allowed any help. It seemed unfair a few months difference in age would change how we were treated. We were hungry and needed new clothes.

08/31/2015 AM
no intent
Mood: confused
Location: in a cave

I was going to work in a building that on the inside was a giant cave, taller than the Grand Canyon and possibly as long. I was an art restorer, copier, and cataloger. My Mother was the leader of this great big job. There were large 20ft by 25ft squares painted on the walls and each square was filled with the most beautiful paintings. They went 20 squares up and many many squares horizontal.
My Mother was dressed in Victorian black, widow's clothing. I introduced her to a young man that was going to work with the teams. He spoke only French and she answered him in French. She took immediate dislike of him. I did not understand her intense dislike.
My boyfriend came to see me at work and gave me a gift of French perfume. I dabbed a bit on my wrist and my Mother went ballistic! She was yelling and cussing at me, I was very embarrassed and my boyfriend left unhappy.
I was talking to a work mate about my Mother's reaction and she said "Did you not know about her romance from her youth. She was in love with a young Frenchman.
He and his Mother made a fool of her and caused her to be disgraced. Now she hates the French. Your perfume reminded her of all that."

I started looking at the paintings trying to decide how anyone could steal them, and wondering who painted them.

very confusing dream. My Mother is dead, never spoke any language other than English and as far as I know never had a sad romance. I have no boyfriends. I am not involved in art other then enjoying some of it. I don't wear perfume.

colors: cave red walls, golden tinted light, black mourning clothes, Renaissance style paintings
could be some day residue as I recently read that more cave paintings have been found.
I woke up totally confused!

I had almost talked myself out of posting this because it was so dark, but if I'm going to be true to this, I need to buckle down.

I'm driving in a car with my ex. It's nighttime, and we appear to be in an urban setting. He is driving, and we're passing closed gas stations and businesses. He's talking about how his life is going lately, nothing crazy, I don't even remember what was said.

Next thing I know, he has turned down this remote back road, and it's very dark and gloomy, in a swampy setting. We pass what looks like a warehouse or junkyard, and there are several men outside hanging out. They are dirty, and have this air of desperation about them. Not necessarily evil, but I am a bit frightened and I'm glad we pass quickly.

Unfortunately we come to the end of the road, in a dirt parking lot in front of another warehouse. There is a pond on the right side of the car, and it's filthy and has an oily sheen to it. Kind of gleams yellow and green in the light from the warehouse parking lot. We turn around, and next thing I know, we are no longer driving, but walking. My ex gets way ahead of me, and then I realize I'm trapped in a small enclosure with no ceiling. I can see him ahead, but I don't think he can hear me. I am worried about the men we passed, so I start to try and climb out, but everything I touch, mostly bookshelves and small statues and busts for some reason, turn to decayed earth and break apart in my hands. I really can't get caught, so I try to jump up to the top of the wall, when my alarm goes off.

There are a couple of events coming up that people might be interested in.....assuming the world can hold out that long. That reminds me, the dream collection phase of Project September is nearing the end. I will most likely be conducting some linguistics analysis tomorrow, so while dreams can still be dreamt about Project September, we do need to get a move on with the analysis phase. The DreamForecasters and Elders will notice a pun included in that last statement, based on what appears to be the top meme in the PS dreams.

And now for the external events. Neither of these upcoming events are mandatory for anyone. I present them here simply because people probably have not heard about them. The NDC does not sanction either one, nor are we receiving any sort of incentive for advertising them.



PsiberDreaming Online Conference: Sept 27 - Oct 11, 2015. Numerous presenters, including the NDC's presentation called Project August: A Psi Revolution, provide pdf papers about various dream topics. Conference attendees read the presentations online and then ask live questions to the presenters via discussion forum.

Learn more about it here: http://www.asdreams.org/psi2015/
and the presentation topics are listed here: http://www.asdreams.org/psi2015/presenters/



A free course in Corpus Linguistics: Sept 28, ongoing for 8 weeks. I actually know nothing about Lancaster University, nor the professor, Tony McEnery, and thus I cannot make any recommendations about whether to consider taking this course. I can only say that for me personally, one who works with DREAM corpus linguistics on a daily basis, that I am actually signed up for this course. Linguistics is something that is still fairly new to me, and I want to learn about different ways to work with the data and even different strategies to collect it, interpret it, and present it.

The title of the course is Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation. I was hoping that the NDC operations could be enhanced by knowing a little more about corpus linguistics.

Trending: department final wednesday extra oracle sun practice famous series slept weird damn completed brief received strange show dream upper castle store hospital speed data second pregnancy beta great ahead entering shouting missing come passenger bit close smooth save control info
Waning: line yellow boyfriend note wild hope hole hour naked brother wolf ice man 2014 hot where girlfriend leader amazing etc vivid bathroom cold war tsunami rose bed comp mini fri forced trade nuclear thanks expectation



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About 3 feet of water covering the surface of my town had created a situation where people now traveled in rafts instead of cars. I was out in my yellow inflatable life raft when the tiny engine battery ran down. I stopped at JC Penney's where I was in the lobby trying to charge my battery in their outlet. A woman saw me and became angry saying "She thinks it is okay to plug into someone else's outlet just because her mother did it in 1969 when energy was cheap!"

I don't know what caused the water to be 3 ft high.

Dreamed 8-31-2015- the wee hours of the morning.

I did the September intention. Dream time was around 5:30 AM.

In the dream, I am driving a car. I don't know the specific type, I believe some type of sedan, not a super high end luxury model. I am driving someplace with one of my friends. We start to head into an area that is a canyon on both sides; the lanes are somewhat wide, and there are more curves in the road. The road is going downhill, and the grade picks up so it is steeper. I hit the brakes, but they aren't doing anything, so I decide I'd better drive really well. It is still two way traffic. I see one person is going over the midway divider; I swerve to the right and avoid a head-on collision. My fried in the passenger seat says "yeah, they designed these roads to be really wide because that happens a lot". I keep going, its not like I can stop, the brakes weren't working. Another car comes into my lane and I have to dodge it again. The curves in the road now have very steep banking, almost like a race track, which keeps the cars on the road.

Up ahead is a tunnel. As I go into the tunnel, the grade becomes extraordinarly steep. I turn the lights on, but the grade is so steep I am seeing the ceiling, not the road in front of me. This goes on for a short time, and then it levels out. The car now slows down and stops on its own - right at a toll booth. I pay the toll and we go into wherever it was we were going. My friend says there's a cruise terminal to the right, but we don't want to go there.

Dream ends.

NOTE: I would say I was a little nervous doing the driving, but not especially so. Even when the cars were coming head-on, it was not really a scary thing.

Has me wondering if we're going to see more roller-coaster action in the stock market come the end of September. Or maybe the universe is just trying to say buckle up, its going to be a wild ride.

Trending: expectation musical tsunami hawaii rose nights etc where sat wolf round nuclear leaned leader mini tom terrifying carry across speed down place past forced replacement signs wonder notice control slightly dream visit completed remember too trade try cube comp bed
Waning: perfect magic chance teeth eating shoot house husband bathroom process train rest island repeat portal cool orange bad line bottle song wow wants adventure amazing sorry hey numbers relationship star hate journey hours wed trap


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It’s just about as close to a Red Alert as you can possible get without going over. Remember the old Hawaii wave meme from late 2014? Well, it’s back, but with a slight twist. Tsunamis can create waves, but the word Wave appears to be absent.

I’m noticing how Group 1 can be connected to Group 2 in the diagram below, but what about Nuclear (see the red arrows)? This is day number 2 with Nuclear in the run, and nuclear could cause both a Tsunami to Rise (Group 1) or perhaps it could open a Portal near an Island (Group 2).

In summary, Wow [we] Want [an] Adventure Amazing.



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I start out at the doctor's office (day residue). But as the doctor is examining me, he keeps focusing on the osteoarthritis in my knee (not his area of expertise). He tells me that I should get that looked at before it becomes a problem, and it will in the future. (It's really not a problem, and the original injury occurred in high school, a loooong time ago hahahaha). I can't figure out why he should think it will be a problem.

Next thing, I'm at home, but it doesn't look like my house, and my deceased mother is there too. She apparently is living with me. We're expecting guests, but I'm desperately trying to get some work done that I've brought home with me. (day residue). I see our neighbor's parakeet outside again (I have no neighbor with one that I know of), and I go out to capture him. But as he almost lands on my hand, I realize one of my cats is across the street and two little girls are trying to get my attention, so I let the bird go and grab my cat instead. I thank the girls and take her back inside the house. I wander back to the kitchen, and as I do so, I realize the house is decorated for Christmas. I think to myself, it's not Christmas but it looks nice and festive, so I'll go along with it.

I go back out to the front porch, and I notice that these weird fat, gray scorpions keep crawling out of the grass, and when they do, the fire ants all leave. I point this out to my boyfriend and another friend, and we all agree it's weird. We have some kind of scorpions in Florida, but not in this region that I know of. We see it happen multiple times.

I ask my boyfriend if he knows which neighbor owns the parakeet. He points out a house across the street, but facing the cross street. The lot on the corner is now an empty grassed lot (where the little girls were previously in front of their house). I should point out this doesn't resemble my neighborhood at all, and the house he points out looks like what we call a "northern house". It's a hulking, two story house made of wood, on what looks like a double lot. It's surrounded by a lot of trees, and it's painted a dark dusty gray blue. It looks like what we call "haunted". (We call them haunted when they are foreclosed on and no one is living there. Tall grass, an abandoned look.) I think to myself that if I catch the parakeet, I don't know if I want to go over there, because it doesn't look safe.

Just then a neighbor and his young son go past the house on a surfboard that has wheels. I realize a lot of the neighbors are grilling in the street, and a party is going on. The neighbor ends up not being able to control the board, and jumps off with his son and lets it crash into someone's grill. They're all laughing, but the son is crying, and I'm irritated with the dad for not being more careful.

Even though there seems to be a lot of festivities and partying going on, it seems forced somehow. (Parties in the street, Christmas at the wrong time of year). The reality is there is a darkness underneath everything (scorpions, spooky houses) and no one is acting in a responsible manner.