Voices

This was early in the first sleep cycle. The dream did not start instantly, that I am aware of, but about 20-30 minutes later. It was night time. I was living in my backyard neighbors house. In my mind, both of these houses were home. (They are very similar to each other in real life.) Everything was epic looking. Larger than life. The house was roughly double sized and decadent like no expense was spared making it. A bright moonlight night was outside my windows. I got a loving phone call from my girlfriend who needed a ride. I felt fantastic. I was wondering which house to take my <PERSON> too. I went out the front door, but it exited onto my backyard patio. Standing there in near pitch blackness were my two lost best friends, in the old version of backyard (it was redesigned a few years ago). They were laughing and talking together, both harshly and intoxicated. I do not recall exactly what was said (it may have been abstract) but it was very rude. I remember them physically surrounding me on both sides. Slapping me on the back. I felt offended and overwhelmed. They acted like crude, spiteful, burnout versions of themselves. Just then, the backdoor opened. Out came an arm with a rather long thin, gray telephone receiver. I heard a voice say from inside the house: "Telephone for you!" I thought, "Which of my old friends will be rude to me next?" I became very distressed and cornered feeling. --Then I woke up. Waking Hallucination (?): When I opened my eyes. I was laying on my back. Above me, slightly off to the left and down a couple of feet was a large dark spot on my ceiling. I kept blinking hard. I am sure I was awake. I looked around the room, all else looked normal. The black spot was about a 2-foot radius. I started to focus on it carefully and could see that the edges of it were swirling. As if it was a flat-ish mist disc, or a rotating projection. It was slowly drifting away from over my bed, to the left corner near the foot. I was watching it closely. The mist started to thin a little, and as it did: two faintly glowing eyes appeared in the middle, blankly looking back at me. They were about 10-inches apart, <PERSON>, and slightly smaller than dimes. After several seconds more, the "thing" gradually faded. To my awareness, I have never experienced visual hallucinations upon waking up before. I was not paralyzed or having a false awakening. At no point was I afraid. I was not sure what I was looking at exactly. I felt more relieved to have left the dream, than afraid of the cloud. I got out of bed. I did not go back to sleep for hours. Fell asleep a little after 2AM and woke up at 2:38AM. Generally speaking, this is a weird time for vivid dreaming. I usually do not recall dreams in the first 3-REM stages. When I do, it typically ends a 90-minute cycle. However, I have noted a few nightmares in the first REM cycle after viewing shocking material. Note: I have an unpublished dream journal of strong, bewildering nightmares that took place heavily in 2007, lingered into 2008. In June 2009, I had one terrible nightmare. Some of the recent trickster elements in my dreams reminded me of those days.