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    Butterfly drums

    by , 10-26-2014 at 09:01 PM (748 Views)
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    DILD: The (forgotten) storyline continues and I plan to be back to this? place and hire a floating bed to do so. It's a beach environment though it later flows into a more canyon like place. I look at the guy to let him know I'm taking one of his beds also expecting to pay but he ignores me, decide for a really small one and then start to maneuver in the water. The place changes a bit, but I kind of assume to have just passed the desired location while I keep trying to navigate on the mini wooden bed as large waves hit me and take me deeper into the sea. I manage to move more towards the coast where it changes to a canyon like place. The colors are really bright and pleasant during the entire time and now it's like a canyon during an autumn afternoon.

    My awareness goes up and I recall the bonus task: create a new song on an instrument that doesn't exist in waking life. I have some doubts about how exactly am about to proceed as I haven't really considered this during the day. At this moment two butterflies appear in front of me and I briefly fix them one next to each other thinking this will make for a perfect instrument. Now the only thing that's left is for me to start playing. After moving the glued double butterfly instrument around a bit (I think at this point it started making the drumming sound), I take the two butterflies apart and holding one in each hand, I start producing the song by methodically tapping with them the corners of an invisible frame. This results in perfect drumming sounds. I repeat this movement until the beat and melody is solidified in my mind and then allow for further beat variation. Happy to have completed the task I briefly think about the experience.

    This seemed like the end of a long REM with nlds before that and at this point the dream dissolves, but I manage to switch to a different scene or deild?

    It looks like I'm in a nicely furnished house located somewhere in the woods . I find myself in the kitchen and at that moment feel how the dream is slipping away. Can't quite come up with what to do here to be more active and engaged but I have the feeling and strong urge to throw a small nearby bottle against the wall. The (tabasco like) bottle breaks in pieces as it hits the wall and this weirdly enough provides me with a sense of stability. I turn around and see a larger jar of what looks like passata and casually drop it to the floor to watch how the glass breaks and the passata starts leaking out. I'm amazed with the accuracy of physics as this happens.

    Nearby are a number of beautiful wooden drawers and I have a quick look to find some jewelry inside. It's pretty awesome but for some reason doesn't capture more interest from my side, so I close the drawer, looking around for something else. I go towards a darker corridor which coincides with another feel of the dream thinning. I decide not to go as far but stop midway in front of a beautiful wooden wardrobe.

    This reminds me of another exploratory task and I decide to check what's inside. There are lots of clothes that give me the initial impression they belong to my mom. I browse through the clothes hoping to find something cool, but the one-many effects gets on them. Basically, most clothes start having the same blue purple colors and I am displeased at this lack of variety. I decide to give it another try by allowing the clothes to change when I close the wardrobe. I wait for a bit, trying not to think of the previous look of the clothes (which I do, but wait a bit more) and then open the wardrobe again. The result is a different set of clothes. There is a really cute pink shirt that seems my size. Though my intention was to simply browse through the clothes and see what my mind comes up with, I now have the desire to try this shirt and see how I look.

    In the meantime, my thoughts about the clothes belonging to mom seem to have summoned her and now her DC is here making comments about the clothes. I can't quite recall our exact words, but I decide to play along telling her some confirmation about what she was asking about and find this utterly funny as I know it's just a dream and my comment is completely false. I continue with my dressing but first I have to undress. There is a mirror just to the side of the wardrobe where I see that I am wearing pink trousers that would nicely fit the highly desired dream shirt. And funnily, I don't realize as I am undressing myself that I am actually already wearing a pink shirt! The shirt gets stuck on my wrist where it's a bit tight and the dream soon ends.

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    Updated 10-26-2014 at 10:31 PM by 61764

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    1. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah, Nyx, awesome job with the Bonus task! I love your double butterfly instrument! Weirdly wonderful and beautiful, such a dream instrument through and through. It's especially impressive because it sounds like this wasn't a task you've given tons of thought to. You got a great result here working completely from scratch.

      I know that it's challenging since this was the beginning of a long-ish LD, but did you manage to carry any of the song back with you to waking life?

      Hee hee, I really enjoyed how after the task completion, you still had time to just have fun trying on outfits and messing around having a dream conversation with your mom about weird dreamy stuff.

      And look at that! I just checked! No latte necessary!
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    2. NyxCC's Avatar
      Yeah, Nyx, awesome job with the Bonus task! I love your double butterfly instrument! Weirdly wonderful and beautiful, such a dream instrument through and through. It's especially impressive because it sounds like this wasn't a task you've given tons of thought to. You got a great result here working completely from scratch.
      Thank you! I am wondering now whether not having anything concrete in mind wasn't more productive for this particular task of coming up with something new? At any rate, I'm happy that the improvisation turned out well.

      I know that it's challenging since this was the beginning of a long-ish LD, but did you manage to carry any of the song back with you to waking life?
      After waking up, I could still recall a part of the song, especially the beginning which I repeated a lot. But right now, not so much. It would be cool to try to actually recreate it as one remembers it, maybe one day I would try in a very simplified version of course.
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah, I think you got a great result from not doing too much planning and just letting your subconscious guide your instrument creation! I have actually done a fair bit of planning and incubation for mine (without getting too detailed, especailly on anything related to the instrument) but I've still not quite managed it! I think it's great that even without doing heaps of planning you were able to remember the task.

      Inspirational for those of us who might be running out of time for October!

      It's cool that you got to take a piece of the song back with you like that! I think it's beyond most of us to take something as rich and layered as LD music (or LD scenery) back with us 100% intact to waking life. But the little bit we can take sure makes for a nice souvenir.

      Congratulations again, well done!
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    4. NyxCC's Avatar
      Inspirational for those of us who might be running out of time for October
      This month passed quite quickly it seems. I still haven't done the pumpkin task and I am really curious what will be inside. Maybe there's still time.
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Two nights left? Oh man, plenty of time! Two nights left = time to do all the tasks twice! Am I right?
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    6. Xanous's Avatar
      WOW that's a really cool effect with the butterflies. It was spur of the moment too? Awesome!
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    7. NyxCC's Avatar
      @ CL

      Yay! I actually have a little something to post (must type it first so probably tomorrow).

      @ Xanous

      Thanks, dude!
    8. fogelbise's Avatar
      Awesome job with the creative instrument Nyx!! I was just posting about interesting dream transitions/additions on CL's journal. I am pretty sure I first learned about those connections between seemingly unexplained changes in the dream from reading your journal. Dreams are so cool! A late congrats to you!!
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    9. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thank you fogelbise! I also love noticing and learning stuff on the spot during dreams. Indeed, dreams are amazing!
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    10. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      I have had this entry bookmarked for months, I'm so happy that I finally got around to reading it.

      Your instrument was so creative, and I love that you came up with it on the spot!

      I'm glad you were able to change the clothes and find something you really liked.
      And I really love that you decided to try on the shirt - it seems like a real "stop and smell the roses" kind of moment, very cute!
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    11. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thank you, Dreamer!

      Yes, that was a very nice experience precisely because the whole task completion was so spontaneous.