The Odds and Ends of a Crazy Person!

October 5th, 2010

First Chain Dream Part 3 (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I knew if I had succeeded in going slightly back into a previous dream once, I could easily do it again. Well, I was right. I closed my eyes, got a picture of my previous dream cemented into my brain (But not too focused), and just drifted away.

I ended up on the outskirts of a fairly suburban city. I had complete control. I could consciously think about everything around me. I saw what looked like a non-evil version of the mall from my previous dream, but this time with a nook in the wall. I walked and explored a bit, but all I found was some barrels and netting. I walked outside again to see two baseball fields next to each other. They were so close that a foul ball on one might be second base on the other. A bunch of kids were having fun, some were arguing, but none of them really paid any attention to me. A ball rolled over at my feet and they all motioned me to throw it back, so I did.

I started ignoring the baseball games and enjoyed the sunny day for a minute. I walked under a tree and the shadows were refreshing. But then, I saw a road in the distance with a few oblong houses lined up on an incline. I got a terrible feeling that something went wrong involving Mike. So I ran in and stopped for a second. I knew that if I kept going headstrong like that I would lose my lucidity quickly. I took that moment to try something new: altering my dream world. I looked at the wall, completely solid, and then noticed I was wearing a backpack.

I took off the backpack and imagined there being a safe right in front of me. I tried expecting there to be a safe right in front of me. . . Nope. Nothing. Well, okay then, I'll just force one in. I put down my bag and dug my hands into the wall. I tried to pull it apart horizontally. Nothing happened the first time, but then I really got into it and pulled it apart like it was some kind of moldable rubber. I expanded it vertically, and whaddya know, I made a safe. I put my bag in and pulled the wall back together. Huh.

I turned around and noticed Nick was casually behind me. I told him, "Nick, we have to get out of here and find Mike. Something's gone terribly wrong." He wanted to stay behind and say everything was fine, but told him, "No, you're coming. I want to see where this dream is going." "Fair enough." So we walked outside (the front wall of the house was gone) and came upon incredibly heavy traffic ranging from trucks to tractors to Volkswagen Beatles. Nick said, "God there's so much traffic..."

Again, this being a chain of dreams where I try new things, I held out my hands and just thought about stopping everything. Wouldn't you know it, nothing happened. So I yelled out, "STOP!" and everything slowly came to a standstill. We crossed the road in between each tightly packed car, eventually getting in to an empty car on the road. We start driving, take a left turn up the hill, and now we're on a busy highway. This gets kind of weird, but stay with me now.

I was still caught up in the fact that I JUST STOPPED FREAKING TIME, but as Nick was driving I started seeing more and more flatbed trucks around us. Mike was apparently driving a red convertable in front of us, and Nick says, "Man, I hope Mike is aligned with Cost-Co and not Wal-Mart..." Yes, aligned. So a bunch of Wal-Mart trucks advertising stuff like, "1 lb of Cod fish, only $1.95!" "32oz bag of Wavy Lays, only $2.95!" Then Nick said, "Oh no... He's with Wal-Mart!" and four Wal-Mart trucks surrounded Mike in a square formation, protecting every side of him, and easily doubled our speed down the highway. I couldn't stop laughing.

So then, on this now-empty cliffside road, I spotted up ahead a giant, armored Ninetails (Yes, the Pokemon. Mind you I have not played that game in 6-7 years.) who tumbled off the road with us in our car. We were at the bottom of the cliff now, mostly unharmed, and the Ninetails was stunned a bit. While it was dazed, Nick started taking Pills from the game Left 4 Dead (Again, haven't played in a few years). I thought, Oh shit! Wait, if he's using those... I'll just have to do him one better! So I just imagine myself with an Adrenaline shot to 1-up Nick. Boom! I got it right in my hands, and now I get filled with this awesome feeling of speed and power.

The Ninetails wakes up and starts to charge at me, but I jump out of the way. I hear, "We need weapons or something!" The word 'weapons' echoed with me, so I just believed I had some kind of fighting weapon, I didn't care what. What I got were two butter knives. Not steak knives or filet knives, butter knives. But, they seemed to do the trick. There was an epic fight between me and the Pokemon, as I was blocked and slashing and all that stuff. After I killed it, we started joking at it and mocking it. I got caught up in this, especially after the fight, and lost lucidity. Not only that, but I lost the dream too.

I woke up and just thought, Wow... I need to write this down. NOW. And thus ends my crazy streak of dreams in one night.

October 5th, 2010

First Chain Dream Part 2

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

... I was drifting away back into my dream. Can't tell if I was Lucid here, but goddamn was this vivid... I was walking out of a building with Nick, Brian, and Mike and I just looked at everything. There were beautiful mountains covered in lush forests. It seemed like I had perfect eyesight, too. There were even shadows of clouds being projected onto the mountains! The next thing I knew, we were walking back inside of a mall and the sky over it was red and black (Evil!). Also, we all looked like some form of vampire hunter now. I had a giant sword and could run faster than everyone else.

I don't remember much in between, but I do remember killing a giant zombie-dragon-thing. I wasn't looking through my eyes often, more like I was seeing through cameras around the dark, fleshy building. When the monster fell, a gigantic portal opened up behind us (When I say gigantic, I mean like the roof grew 2 stories and the portal reached from the floor to roof) with a demented skull shaped in the middle of it. We all ran into the portal and I woke up... Yea... But the best is yet to come...

October 5th, 2010

First Chain Dream: Part 1 (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

So before this even begins, I got into bed and only thought two things, "I will have a lucid dream tonight" and "Whatever I see will not be real." The second seemed kind of odd, but I guess it works for me. It took about 10 minutes or so because I kept focusing, but eventually I drifted away.

I woke up in some kind of bunk-bed / cubby-hole that looked like something straight out of a concentration camp. But I got out and saw that me and this guy named Nick were in a room with a door leading to a roof somewhere. It was still night out. We stepped outside and suddenly got the feeling that people were watching us. . . So I 'found' a Desert Eagle and started to shoot at other figures who had guns (I somehow had clips to reload too. Cool!). It was pretty easy. Then, I felt a deep pressure in my left arm and fell down (Pretty sure I got shot). But that's not all!

A few seconds after that, two of our friends, Mike and Brian, came up from what I assumed was a rooftop lower than us and apologized for shooting me. I got up and we all got into a car that had magically appeared to our left. Once we got in, we were on the road already. The road was empty except for us. As we took a left turn some guy didn't stop and grazed the left side of our car, which I was suddenly driving. Shortly I arrived at a Supermarket, during the daytime now, and got out of the car. However now I was with my friend Dan. I didn't mind.

A few seconds after walking into the supermarket, I noticed something, but I don't know what, but it was enough. Aww man, I just hit the Lucid jackpot. I wanted to try low gravity this time. I didn't want full-on flying, been there, done that. As much as I willed, nothing happened. So, I had to get creative. I always read that if you can't will something, make it happen by creating a device or some other medium. I said to Dan, "Dan! You're dreaming right now!" He looked real surprised, but happy. "You should try low gravity!" And wouldn't you know, a few seconds later we were Moon-Bouncing in the supermarket.

I can't remember what happened, something about jumping over an old lady's shopping cart, but I woke up real quick. I thought, wait! Don't end now! So I didn't move, closed my eyes, and in a few seconds...

February 19th, 2010

Weird Series of Dreams (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

So, another time this started with a brief game-like moment and I'm getting a lot of kills with a sniper rifle... But then it suddenly becomes real and me and this girl realize we're outnumbered! So we drop grenades behind us and run through this small hallway. We end up in a freezer room with random tanks of some fluid. Also, we're wearing labcoats now like we're scientists. About three guards come inside and find us, then the girl starts pulling out a bunch of karate / kung-fu moves, so I join in and we take them out... Next scene!

These may seem like different dreams, but it all seemed to happen in the same stream of conciousness. I'm now driving my car and come upon a house with weird landscape (hills, junk, and random items everywhere) and sounds of an angry mob and a feeling, yes I could sense it, of pitchforks, torches, and general mob weaponry. I see Bart simpson running away, and the next thing I know, I'm throwing cereal and milk on the ground in front of the mob. Here comes the twist: when the mob steps on the cereal, they're INSTANTLY ELECTROCUTED and I fry most of the mob. The rest of them just disperse, and this dream sequence ends. Now for the final 'dream scene.'

I'm in some kind of Star Wars setting, shooting red exploding bombs at droids / drones. We were definately under attack. Kind of weird how whenever I shot a bomb my sight followed it until it exploded, then I went into my eyes again. Then, behind me / us (there were others around me, but I never paid attention to them) a bunch of crab / insect-like droids came up a ramp to our position! So what do I do? I fly into the air (NOT LUCID) get some cereal out of no where (NOT LUCID) and start throwing it on the ground with milk that was mixed in with the box (NOT LUCID). Then, the cereal (yup, you guessed it) electrocuted the robots (NOT LUCID) and I saved the dream. I woke up thinking, why the hell did I not notice something was off? Anyways, yea, weird series of dreams. They all seemed to be just one transition to the next. Not once did I become lucid.