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Dreams lately have been heavily influenced by whatever television/film I have watched before heading to bed. I will often find myself dreaming with the characters who I have watched onscreen making themselves present in my dreams. Why? I am not sure --- other than the fact that I would have recently seen them --- but it is like I have been implanted into their world. Stupidly enough, I watched Keeping Up with the <PERSON>'s the other night and ended up dreaming that I was apart of their chaotic family. They had "taken me in" and I instantly became one of them. Furthermore, recently other dreams have been becoming more real and real. I have dreamed that I have been horrifyingly late to work, or that I keep trying and trying to get there and I do not make it. That I am supposed to start at 3:30, and I do not wake up until 3:45. It is a nightmare that feels all too real. Two weeks ago while on vacation, I had a dream that my dog ran away and we could not find her. She was gone forever. When I returned home, we found out she was ill and we had to put her down. Some instances like these (which have been happening very often, where I will have a dream and then something similar or relevant occurs a short while later) are frightening to me; the coincidence is almost too much to process these days. As for lucid dreaming, not much exciting. Typical "happy" places; the other night I dreamed of being back in California. That was about it.