A few

- I was looking for a friend in a mansion. Another friend misled me and I eventually wasn't able to find him, while my friend knew exactly where he was and went and hung out with him. I think we were at some house party that got out of control and then we had to leave. I think drinking was involved.

- I was with a good friend on some sort of road trip. His mother was driving, and we were in the first row behind the driver's seat - in a van, so there were two seats with a space in the middle. I remember we were playing and talking about our new BOSE noise cancelling headphones. We also made a stop at a tomb-like museum in the middle of a park somewhere on this roadtrip. My friend had drawn on his face with pen around his eyes and cheeks in a linear pattern of some sort.

- I brought a person I recently met to visit my family. I think he helped my mom find seafood because we were trying to make some Peruvian seafood dish. He also took me to a fraternity "ring ceremony" thing and he didn't get a ring but was essentially on some sort of waiting list where he would get into the frat if some of the people they had invited preferred other offers they had received. The best part of this dream was that there was a path around this frat ceremony location. On the path, there were these lights that looked like spherical orbs of light on the ground. They rocked

a foot race

Don't remember the exact context or reason, but I raced a friend of mine in a basketball gym, from one sideline to another, and beat him (this would not happen in real life). He smiled and was very impressed.

When gorillas attack

A group of friends from the study abroad program in Costa Rica and I were taking a guided nature walk, and we came upon a section of field/forest where many other tour groups were tracking gorillas. This was apparently not very difficult, as many groups were surrounded by gorillas and being way less than careful with them. Some were feeding them, others were teasing them, and it generally felt unsafe. There weren't any regulations and essentially the tourists were doing as they pleased. (note: these animals were gorillas, but they were about the size of a chimp)

Before we had begun the tour, our guide had offered us to scent ourselves with a pheromone mixture that would attract and make the gorillas more likely to come up to us, and most of us had refused this opportunity because it sounded pretty dangerous. Except for one friend, my current apartment mate, who dipped her hand in it.

While we continued to walk, this particular friend got ahead of the group and was walking about 10 feet ahead of everyone else. All of a sudden, a gorilla came charging at her and rammed her to the ground. Another gorilla followed and attacked her from another side. Everyone around us stopped what they were doing, including me, and stood in shock wondering how to respond to the attack. The guide, so called expert, was refusing to do anything saying that if more people got involved more people would get hurt but I immediately dismissed that approach. Watching my friend go through this was incredibly scary and I couldn't just stand there and watch her get hurt. So I jumped and fell by her side, saying "Don't die! Please don't die!" and holding her head. I noticed she had been bitten on her left wrist and bright red blood was coming out. In the middle of this, one of the gorillas who had first attacked was making his way over to charge at me, when out of nowhere an old friend of mine grabbed him and stopped the impact. The gorilla went away and I looked up at him and had one of those "wow, my hero!" moments. Unfortunately, this is an old friend who I despise.

At some other points in the dream, I remember three things: one, a lot of my friends were TV show stars and my mom was asking me how come I wasn't one yet and she encouraged me to find out if I could become one; two, a group of friends from Duke Engage and I went shopping with my mom but one couldn't afford anything more than $10, so we were looking at $7jeans; and three, with the Costa Rica group we were taking a vacation, our families came along and I remember my family stayed in this large Caribbean plantation-style home that was very very nice except for a leaky roof which messed us up when it rained, and anyway this group of friends and I took a jeep out to find a remote beach. We found one with some whales in it that had dolphin-like fins, and one of the girls in the group (who looked like two people I know) decided to jump in and she turned into a dolphin and swam with the whales.

Lucidity and nakedness

1) ACHIEVED LUCIDITY: I'm on an island, it's very sunny. I'm not sure what's going on until I have a moment where I know I'm dreaming. And you bet, I try so hard to make sure that I don't wake up and I don't. What's next? I have to test my boundaries. So, I try to change the scenery, but that fails. Then, I see a road ahead of me and there's a bridge. There is a couple on this bridge and I think what's one of the craziest things I can do? So, I decide to try to seduce this couple into having a threesome. I kiss the guy but as I pull away I realize he's actually really gross. His teeth are missing, he is very ugly, and kind of dirty. Moving along, I drop that idea and run into my mom's friend's daughter. She seems distraught and I'm not sure where she's going but I decide that I need to find a castle. I imagine that if such a castle exists, it's got to be on a road called "Royal Drive" so I ask her if she knows where it is but she has no idea. All of a sudden an Asian girl in a beetle drives up and I direct her to stop. She does, and I ask her if she knows how to get to Royal Drive, and she offers me a ride. While I am in her car she tells me she sells weed but is having some trouble keeping up with the demands of her customers because she keeps getting requests for things like weed tea which she's never made and is very confused about, and then I don't remember my dream after that.

2) I'm not sure what the story is behind this dream but I remember at one point I was going to seduce an older man. But, before I did that, I wanted to check myself out in the mirror to make sure I looked good. I was wearing an ultra-soft, magenta robe and it had some floral decorations on it. It was sort of Japanese style floral decorations on it. Then, I stood in front of a mirror and took off the robe to look at my naked body. I apparently looked different than what I actually look like, because my breasts were much larger and oddly cartoonish.