Incompetent, Aliens & Elephants

 Incompetent/Panicked

 I am in a group sleep-in sales competition. We are all trying to get a job with a big corporation and sleeping at the same facility in the process. It is the morning before the start of a big meeting. I need to shower, dress and still have time to write a report. i am running around trying to find an empty shower, choose to wear based on looking at the weather out the window and stop to have a discussion with one of the leaders.

I go shower after the discussion with my clothes and towel in hand, A tall fellow salesman is just finishing up, gets out and asks for my towel, I say no way, he keeps asking while standing nude in front of me with  a towel wrapped around his head. I finally throw a nice clean towel at him, he gives it back laughing. The shower is now taken. I wake screaming in frustration.

Notes: I was not literally screaming, but it felt like it. I have set an alarm for an important event and am aware of the time to the minute as I wake up and how detailed everything is. This is very close to a lucid dream. 

Aliens & Elephants

I am flying with a group of men/soldiers in a plane with open side doors. We see all kinds of movement on the ground below us. They look like humans, but somehow I know they are aliens attaching

I am now trapped inside a jeep-like vehicle with several people including a woman. There are several elephants attaching us and one is reaching into the vehicle trying to grab us.

Notes: These two dreams slide into each other. I notice while dreaming how vivid 

Law of the Ocean (Very short & vivid)

I am pulling up to a tall nondescript building with an all glass facade. I am driving a large sedan from the 40's or 50's. There is a sizable group of men waiting to get in? In a double row they pop up and down in small choreographed  groups. It is known that the building is filled with prostitutes.  The men proceed to rush into the building in single file ready for action. The last one in line is a young James Cagney. I vividly notice his thick wavy brown hair from the rear.

He is now sitting next to me and says clearly and audibly, "what we have here is the Law of the Ocean".

Notes: I wake feeling rested and vigorous. I move but am still able to return visually to the dream and recall details. I look up the phrase and found Law of the Sea, international agreements that apply on the world's oceans.

Naked and Starving (Needs Interpretation)

 Food Falling off paper plate

I am at a party in someone's house. I am loading food onto my paper plate and it drops to the floor under the weight of large pieces of meat. I go next door (right through an open section in the wall)  and get a hard plate to put under my paper plate to support the food. I look down and I have a large serving of something that looks like spaghetti formed like it would be under a hair net. The waitress/owner  is also holding a plate with the identical lump of food.

Search for food continues

I as crossing a large open space and a man is singing a long ditty that he may be improvising as we walk along, It seems to be relevant to the moment.

I am now observing an emaciated old man talking to a child that lives next door in an apartment hallway.  He seems to suffering/starving from continual food mishaps,

Apartment Nudity (later with several intervening dreams)

I am in my apartment and decide to leave. I find myself at a men's meeting and am carrying a toilet bowl in front of me, partially to hide my nudity, I think I may want help with the toilet. Oddly I have a pair of shorts I am holding in my hands as well. Cindy is also at the meeting with a female friend. I am slightly confused. 

I leave the meeting and find myself stepping very carefully through a bed of soil that has recently been finely graded and likely planted. The detail is very vivid (pre-lucid?) and the strings that define rows are very dark and only appear as I step on them,

I hear Cindy discussing a legal matter with a man on the street. Apparently a woman friend of hers has dropped our dog off at the apartment and left him unattended. The apartment is likely trashed. The man advises not to rush home and instead  consider the insurance ramifications of the situation.

Note: I incubated the idea that I wanted to remember my dreams before going to sleep. I reminded myself the review them before fully waking. This was pretty successful but still need to concisely name them instead of trying to remember all the detail. I woke up surprisingly late.