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#1 - Do not recall the dream much, but recall thinking, "If I were lucid, this would be more vivid." d'oh! That is close, though... my near-lucids usually indicate I will have a dream-induced lucid dream within the next night. #2 - I dream I work in a store. We are selling $20,000.00 coffee cups, and a whole row of them got broken (not my fault). I get into an argument with my boss, who treats all people with disabilities as if they are stupid, which infuriates me. I call my friend M__ and complain about it because I know she will understand. #3 - I am going up a river bank with a bunch of other people. I do not recall why, I think it was a picnic or social gathering or something. It is getting close to dusk. I suddenly hear gunfire and see the muzzle flash of automatic weapons. Naturally, everybody panics. We were not doing anything violent and obviously did not expect to be shot at. There is nowhere to run - we can go backwards, away from the river, for some reason (I do not remember why). Now we are being shelled as we scramble along the river bank. There is smoke everywhere and everybody is panicking. Up ahead, through the smoke, I see a bunch of soldiers. From their uniforms, they are friendly toward us. They are returning fire across the river and indicating for us to move toward them so they can get between us and our attackers, but there is a whole stretch of bank to cross and it is under fire. In addition, the bank is very crowded and it is difficult to get everybody to move in a specific direction instead of running in random directions and flipping out. #4 - I am renting a room in an apartment. The room is very small and I am putting my furniture together and thinking about how to arrange it. My friend Z__ wants to meet up since he heard I moved back to town. I am thinking about how much money I need to make before I can rent my own apartment. I am putting trash in a trash basket, but it is made of plastic mesh and all of the trash keeps falling through the spaces in it.