The Cusp

Lost all the detail of this dream, I just remember a pattern of pushing back and forth with something, not physically, but with our attention. I suspect it was a shared dream and I was fighting someone. I say that because of the back and forth pattern. For some reason dream fights against other dreamers seem to develop the pace of a tennis match, with the ball going from one side of the court to the other until someone scores.

When you attack in a shared dream, you are trying to hook your opponent's attention. What happens is you send something at your opponent, and they either ignore it, deal with it, or succumb to it. If they don't succumb, then they send something at you. It goes back and forth until something until someone finally believes of the the incoming "gambits" is real and it overwhelms them. There's a chance that may be a pattern that just happens with me, but I'm fairly sure it's a strange attractor that will hold true for any two people fighting in a dream. (and by fighting, I don't necessarily mean physical fighing).

That's the second or third dream like that I've had this week. Not sure who it could have been. I've always had an open invitation for anyone to come find my in my dreams. Plus I've also been having what I think might be shared dreams with one of my prodigal dream control students. We both only half remember these dreams, but the pattern of me demonstrating something, then making him do it, then me, then him, over and over, drilling him with repetition, that's an easy one to spot.

It's weird, I haven't had any shared dreams in years, and then I run into Waking Nomad online last week, and now I'm having them almost every night.

Really need to work on improving my recall. Had an awesome sword fighting dream during a nap yesterday, and I forgot all the detail.