New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

Last night's dreams seem to be a little more along the lines of my usual dreams, though I was never really lucid. I am figuring that lucidity will improve as my recall improves.

Free For All
I am a fighter in a game of Dungeons and Dragons Online, I am carrying a nasty and cool looking sword. There is a tournament of some kind going on, where players are all fighting against other players. Things are set up so players can get KO'ed but not killed, so the scores are based on the overall performance and 'kills' by each player. I am fighting against a rather big guy with an even bigger axe. He proves to be very strong, but his tactics are way too predictable. After avoiding a couple of his attacks I am able to identify a pattern in his attacks and get past his defenses. I knock him out and then continue exploring a forest area where the tournament is taking place, it is a very realistic looking forest, looks just as real as any forest in the waking world. I am a bit distracted by the surrounding environment when I get surprised by another player attacking me. This is a man with a sword, and as opposed to the first one, he seems quite a bit more skilled. This fight goes on considerably longer than the first one, but I am finally able to get the upper hand and take him down. I am quite a bit more tired from that fight as I continue exploring the forest.


Aquarium Jumping
I am at some huge series of aquariums, looking at the various ocean life in them. There are assorted fish, many kinds of fish, in every imaginable color. There are also sharks, stalking the aquariums as if they are on the hunt. I see a woman in the water, she is swimming as if she herself was part fish, swimming like a mermaid and I see she is one… She is jumping like a dolphin. Jumping from one aquarium to another, practically flying between them. It seems the sharks are trying to catch her, jumping out of the water and grabbing at her, but always a bit too slow as she proceeds to the next aquarium. It seems she is trying to jump from aquarium to aquarium until she reaches the safety of an aquarium not far from me where there are only fish, no sharks. I see there is a man in one of the tanks, one of the tanks with sharks in it. He is trying to get to the side of the tank to get out. The mermaid jumps into his tank and tries to get him to hang on to her properly so she can still jump. But instead he seems in a blink panic and is grabbing frantically at the mermaid to keep from being pulled away by a shark. She tries to jump with him on her but can't do it, instead, his blind panic makes him lose his grip and fall back to the water while the mermaid clumsily falls in a neighboring tank. The sharks swarm the man and tear him apart in a feeding frenzy. The mermaid looks sad that she wasn't able to save him, but no less determined to save herself… she takes advantage of the distraction and makes the final few jumps to the safe tank. She swims over to us observers and hands me a beautiful flower, saying life was needlessly lost, but don't let any more sparks die.


Imagination Is Real
I am in a strange place with some other people. I think one of them is MoSh, another of them might be Nomad… We are all in a world that somehow doesn't seem quite stable, it seems to be changing and shifting around us. The world around us is reforming as time passes, morphing from one form into another. Someone is talking to us, I don't see the person who is speaking, but the voice sounds familiar, maybe it is Q? He is talking about traveling through dimensions without actually opening a portal, just phasing through the dimensional boundaries, sliding sideways sort of through the worlds and watching them slip by. The effect is that one feature morphs into another as everything gradually shifts from one place to another. Mountains slowly smooth out into hills, flat areas rise up to form mountains, low areas fill up with water and then rise up and are covered by trees… buildings sprout out of nowhere and various races of people, not necessarily all human, are living there and going about their lives without seeming to notice us. For a while we are under water and there is a society of dolphins swimming around us. Q says for me to imagine where I want to go and I will soon be there. He says that whatever I can imagine exists somewhere, the universe is that vast. So when one person tells another, "That isn't real… you just made that up…" is really a nonsensical statement since it surely exists somewhere.


Precious
I am in a room with my ex boyfriend, he is singing a song, I recognize the song is titled Precious by Depeche Mode. It seems he is trying to say he is sorry for how he has treated me in the past. Here are the lyrics to the song:

Precious and fragile things, need special handling.
My God what have we done to you?
We always tried to share, the tenderest of care.
Now look what we have put you through.

Things get damaged, things get broken.
I thought we'd manage but words left unspoken
Left us so brittle there was so little left to give…

Angels with silver wings shouldn't know suffering.
I wish I could take the pain for you
If God has a master plan that only He understands
I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through.

Things get damaged, things get broken.
I thought we'd manage but words left unspoken
Left us so brittle there was so little left to give…

I pray you learn to trust have faith in both of us.
And keep room in your hearts for two.

Things get damaged, things get broken.
I thought we'd manage but words left unspoken
Left us so brittle there was so little left to give…

Plans: For tonight, my main focus is to continue remembering things, so I don't get stuck in another dry spell. I also still have a goal to meet with Dakotahnok at the beginning of the Halo task to have a confirmed shared dream. I also would like to get started on the Tasks of the Year from DV, the one I want to get over with first is a task taken from the Jaws movie, but the task is to kill the shark… which I don't want to do. I have plans on getting around it, but I figure I want to take care of it as soon as possible.

I am on a boat out in the ocean, I look around to see where I am, but I don't recognize any of it. I am lucid, though I don't remember how I became lucid. I look at the ocean around the boat and think this is most likely the place where I am supposed to complete the task of the year from DV that has to do with the Jaws movie. Ok, well this is definitely doable, so I'll get it out of the way. I look around the boat for a bit, and it is clearly a fishing type boat, there are three men out on the deck, I see there is a lot of beer being passed around, and it looks more like they're out here to party than fish or hunt sharks. I am thinking if one of those two were to fire a harpoon gun they would be more apt to skewer each other than any shark in the water. I am standing there watching them when one of them turns towards me and sees me. He stands there staring as if I was some kind of alien, or maybe a mermaid who had climbed out of the ocean and onto the boat… He finally comes over to me, holding his beer out in front of him, but he isn't handing it to me…

"Who the FUCK are you?" he says loudly, "Hey, guys! We gots ourselves a stowaway…" He is slurring his words, he is clearly more than a bit drunk.

"Maybe she can be put to good use here," another of the men says, "As shark bait!" The two men, the drunk one and the one who suggested I could be shark bait, come towards me, attempting to look menacing. Epic fail. The drunk one looks more like he might throw up than attack. The third one is over near the edge of the boat and he calls out that they have something, too big for a fish, it's definitely a shark… I think he sounds like a retard saying sharks aren't actually fish… He calls to the other two to come help anchor the line so it won't get away! Get the harpoon so they can kill it and claim the reward. I ask them if they're really just killing a shark for money? The one man who seems to be the least drunk says no, of course not… I shouldn't forget about the excitement of the hunt… and the fame… the drunk one throws his beer up in the air and adds that he does it for the women. I tell them to let the shark go, it's not the one attacking swimmers at the beach. If it was that one, half their boat would now be missing. The one anchoring the line down says I am probably right about that, he has heard descriptions of that shark, descriptions that say it is nearly the size of a whale. Everyone agrees that this is not the shark everyone is after, but maybe there is still a reward. One of them says if I help bring the shark in, I can share in the fame. Not in the reward, but in the fame, sure. Two are anchoring the line, the third is aiming a harpoon gun at the ocean, I agree that I will help.

I don't like these people killing for thrills, fortune, and fame, that is not a good enough reason to kill. I go over towards the three, like I am going to help anchor the line, but then I form Witchblade into a dagger and knife the guy with the harpoon gun, then lift him up a bit and shove him overboard into the water before he can react. The drunk one seems to sober up really fast, he asks what the fuck I'm doing, I'd said I would help… I say I didn't say who I would help, and I choose the shark. The guy in the water is calling for help, he says the blood will attract sharks. One of the men is trying to hold on to me, holding my arms behind my back, while the other goes to pull his friend from the water. So I stab the man holding me in the leg and flip him overboard into the water, then stab the last man in the shoulder and go to shove him overboard. He grabs me as he falls, and we both fall into the water. The man I fell overboard with laughs at me, saying I have killed myself, too, as the sharks will kill me when they come I dive under the water, following the thick line down to a tiger shark that is swimming around in circles, trying to get loose, but only tangling himself up more than ever.

I use my Witchblade blade to cut through the line, which is thicker than any fishing line I have ever seen before, and the shark is free. I telepathically tell the shark I need to get the hook out, it is a large hook, which is hooked in the shark's mouth… probably placed there when it tried to eat a fish with the hook inside it. I go over to the shark and pull the hook out, then heal the injury. The tiger shark responds to the blood in the water from the bleeding shark hunters and heads for them. I also see some more sharks attracted to the scene. I surface to see the three men climbing back into the boat, one of them is safely aboard and pulling a second in when the sharks arrive. The sharks grab the man who is dangling over the edge of the boat, tearing him in half… the second man disappears under the water… then a massive shark practically bites the boat in half, and that is the last to be seen of the three shark hunters.

Another boat arrives, and I realize it is the Orca, the ship from the movie Jaws, a man pulls me onto the ship, and there is a woman looking out over the water at the huge shark that bit the smaller boat in half. I search my mind for the identities of the people… one is Quint, a shark hunter, the man who pulled me out is Brody, the main character, so the woman is Hooper, the marine biologist? I was trying to think if that was a woman in the movie, but I figure it doesn't matter. Small detail. I am thinking of how to arrange Quint's death when I remember the task is to actually kill the shark, damn, I almost forgot that detail… so I go to one of the large harpoon guns and shoot the shark, right through the brain for a painless death… ok… task done… I jump in the water, though it's clear that the others think I fell, and I swim over to the shark. I remove the harpoon, then I summon up a healing item in the form of a mushroom that I have designed for use in my own video games, the mushroom heals and restores life to the recently deceased. I put the mushroom in the shark's mouth where it is instantly absorbed, the shark is revived and healed. Yay! I use the harpoon rope to pull myself back onto the boat, this time both Brody and Hooper help me up. I slice the rope a bit as I get on, weakening it. Quint sees the shark is still moving down there, so he reels the harpoon back in for another shot. He fires, and gets the shark only through its dorsal fin… the shark pulls at the harpoon cable. Quint says to pull the rope in a specific way so the harpoon gets set in place. I arrange so that he is in front, then the weak spot in the line, then Brody and Hooper. The line snapes, Quint gets pulled into the water and swallowed whole by the angry shark.

I do a quick scan of Brody and Hooper… Hooper has been against killing the shark from the beginning, but no one would listen to her idea of using some kind of sonic waves to deter sharks from entering areas populated by people. Brody had been going along with killing the shark, but it looked like there was still hope he could learn… maybe Hooper would teach him? The shark is tearing the boat in half, I tell the two of them to take hold of my hands, then I use TK to fly all three of us towards the shore, which shocks both of them. The big shark is following us after I telepathically tell the shark I know where there's food, so I lead him on to a boat that looks to have about seven shark hunters aboard. He bites that boat in half and feeds on the people aboard, Brody and Hooper both think that is horrible, but they don't know I had anything to do with it. I take them to shore and set them on the beach. I see other shark hunter boats out in the water getting attacked by the shark, excellent. Hooper says that's the consequence of people having no respect for the forces of nature, none of those people would have to die if they hadn't tried to kill the big shark in the first place. Brody asks why I can't go out there and help some of them… I say why should I help them, so they can do more thrill killing later? Brody stares at me as if I am completely mad, he says those are human beings out there, I ask what his point is. He seems to be without response to that, or maybe he just doesn't have a chance to respond before I wake up.

I was on the beach, walking along the shore and looking for seashells. It was a beautiful day out, the sun was actually a bit on the hot side, but that was balanced out by the cool breeze blowing in off of the ocean. What a wonderful day for a walk on the beach. I was wishing I had brought my swim suit because now, as I watched the waves rolling in from the endless blue horizon, I wanted to swim out into the water and let the waves carry me back to shore.

Well, I couldn't swim but I could definitely wade. So I took off my shoes and socks, rolled up my jeans, and waded out into the ocean until the water was about up to my knees. I continued walking along the shore, enjoying the ocean breeze, the smell of the ocean, the sounds of the seagulls, the fact there weren't any other people out there… but wait… I did see another person a bit farther up the beach. Crap. Well, I could at least hope there weren't very many people, maybe even just the one. I wasn't about to change my course just because there was one person on the beach, so I continued walking and got closer to the person, who turned out to be a man, and as I got closer to him I realized I knew him!

"Nomad?" I asked, surprised to see him.

"That's me," he said, "This is a dream, and I was about to ride a dream wave all of the way to the moon! Hop on the next wave and ride with me!"

Riding waves to the moon? There's no way that could be even remotely possible, although Nomad looked like he was being completely serious about the idea. I then registered the rest of what he had said, this is a dream, and he was going to ride a dream wave. Not just a normal wave, a dream wave. So this was a dream, then? I confirmed that it was definitely a dream when I did a RC, turned to Nomad and said this really was a dream.

Before anything more could be said about riding waves all of the way to the moon, however, the calm peacefulness of the beach was shattered by harsh yelling, energy blasts firing, and swords clashing. Who the hell was making so much noise?! I looked and saw that the beach was covered by Templars now, stupid Templars have to come around and ruin everything, and they apparently had come to attack Nomad or me or both of us.

Nomad transformed into a giant shark that was sparking with electricity. When he did that he was in mid jump and he came down on top of a few of the Templars and appeared to swallow them whole while shocking the Templars that just happened to be too close to him. Of course that left this huge sparking shark on the beach, when he would have been much better off in the water, so I telekinetically tossed him into the water, and then I threw a few Templars in after him so he wouldn't be alone out there. He seemed to think the Templars looked tasty, as he started eating them whole, I wondered if the lightning around him meant they were at least cooked before he ate them, and my next thought was, "Yuck! Nomad, you'll get diseases from eathing those things!" As if acknowledging that, Nomad spat out a chewed up Templar onto the beach, which was quite disgusting, and terrifying to one of the other Templars who ran for his life down the beach. That was the only Templar with a brain, however, as the others all yelled and came to attack both Nomad and me.

It was about here that Nomad figured out that since he was a dream shark he could swim just fine in the air instead of in the water, so he jumped out of the water and chased Templars around on the beach, grabbing them in his massive jaws and literally biting them in half… other Templars came straight at me and attacked, they got greeted my my Witchblade sword for their troubles. I told one of them that seemed hesitant to attack me to go away and leave Nomad and me alone, we were just trying to have a bit of a fun dream, hadn't been looking for any trouble with the Templars, so just go away! He didn't seem to think that was as good of an idea as I did, however, he attacked me anyway and got my Witchblade sword run through him for his trouble. Well, no one could say I didn't try to get them to just go away. The fighting continued for a while longer until the few remaining Templars finally got the picture and ran away through portals that opened up a short distance down the beach, leaving Nomad and me alone once again.

Nomad turned back to his normal self and asked what that thing with the Templars had been all about. I told him I didn't have a clue, I didn't even know for sure which one of us they had been after or if they might have been after us both or maybe they hadn't really been looking for either of us but just happened to find us… Nomad said they were just being stupid like they always are, so now how about riding the dream wave all the way to the moon? He pointed out to the ocean where the moon was rising over the horizon, the reflection of the moon was very clear in the ocean water. A very beautiful sight. Nomad and I didn't end up riding the wave to the moon, but we did have a nice length of time to enjoy the beach and relax there. The water was great, and we even found ourselves to be in the company of dolphins when we transformed to merpeople and swam a bit farther out into the ocean and farther up the coast. I was thinking that if it hadn't been for the interference of those stupid Templars, this would have been a perfect vacation dream!