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    The Tiger And The Arena

    by , 03-31-2013 at 04:01 PM (740 Views)
    #156 - DEILD Chain - 5:31AM

    I am living with my wife in one of the houses I lived in as a child in Smithville, TX. My Aunt Paula shows up at the door with my nephew Samuel. I am totally drunk and working on the furnace. I try to hide the fact that I feel dizzy and hope that I am not slurring my speech to much. I try to avoid eye contact with her and try to stay busy with the screwdriver in my hand.

    She walks out of the room I am in and for some reason I follow. I notice my parents old cabinet TV right were it always was in that house and a potted Christmas tree on top. The tree catches my eye and I pause finding it odd and out of place.

    I wake briefly and go for DEILD.


    I never really exit the void so I start rubbing my hands vigorously. For some reason I can feel my hand are really numb. I wonder if it is my sleeping position that is doing it or if it is a dream sensation. I remember that I felt this before. I decide to ignore it because moving might ruin the dream. The more I rub my hands the less numb they feel. After a few seconds the dream plops me in my dinning room. I am shocked that I didn't have to exit my body and I can see clearly. I stare at the hardwood floor not remember what to do. I float up to the ceiling. I feel that I could control it if I wanted to and I go down a little. I think no lets see where it takes me. I purposely phase through the ceiling backwards and I create an opening more than phase. I see the floor get smaller and smaller and soon I feel the bed on my back and darkness surrounds me again.

    I DEILD the same way. There is still some numbness and I shake my hands a little and that seems to help. I go back to hand rubbing.

    This time I am plopped at the back door. Again I am pleased that I don't have to OBE exit and open the back door. I pause when I feel some weirdness on my right side of my face. It's like something is pressing on my face and I am only able to see out of my left eye. For some reason I feel scared. I say out loud, "Oh no you don't goddammit". And the feeling goes away.

    I bound over the deck without a thought and am in my backyard. I look up and see a beautiful night sky. There are many stars, a few small clouds, I can even see a contrail. I look around some more and see a tiny full moon.

    I want to do the Rome task now but the only way I can think to teleport is to feel the sand like I talked about with CL. I realize that I didn't really think this part through before hand. I get down on my knees and feel the ground. It's just grass and leaves. I think no its sand. Still grass and leaves. I try to brush the grass and leaves aside but the grass is rooted. I feel stubborn on this though, I really should give up and try something else. So, I punch down into the earth several times pulling up fists full of sand. But now I become distracted how easy it was the conjure sand and how real it all feels. Even the ground beneath me is unbelievably realistic. I soon wake up.

    Again I DEILD. I roll to my back and it takes a little more time and effort this time.

    I find myself laying in bed again. This time I feel more in control. Imagine a sliders wormhole above me and it appears. I allow it to suck me up but don't get to see the colorful transition. I am just plopped back in bed. I feel confused but tell myself this has to be an alternate reality.

    I sit up and see my wife and some other person standing at the foot of my bed in togas. I am so totally surprised at this that I say, "Toga party!" and laugh. I get up and realize that my bed was in a large cubbyhole of sorts in a huge stone structure. I see a red velvet curtain with gold yellow trimming acting as a partition. It's tied back with a rope made of the same golden yellow material. I walk into the rest of the building and notice its dimly lit. I am excited and think how this has to be it. I realize the L-Dopa is making all of this so easy and I feel confident. I step to the right into the arena. I see the floor is white sand and the sun is so bright that the glare off the sand blinds me a little. I literally have to wait for my eyes to adjust.

    As I am standing there I remember the picture I was looking at during my WBTB.
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    I pretend I have a gladius and shield and stand ready. I hear the crowd cheering and laugh a little because it sounds like the cheering crowd from Pro Wrestling on the NES.

    NES Pro Wrestling - YouTube

    I try to see the crowd but its like they are shadowed and in darkness. I can't see anything beyond the brightly lit arena. Now I just think of the tiger and sure enough it appears. I ready myself but as I do it does from being a normal tiger to a tiger with an impossible number of teeth to the point that its face is all teeth. While, I am shocked an distracted the tiger lunges and bites my head. All I can see is its tongue and uvula as it munches on my head. It doesn't hurt or seem to do any damage. I almost give up thinking I lost but no I've come this far. I force push him way. The tiger goes soaring straight in front of me and stirs up a dust cloud. I use my Darth Vader grip and pick him up about 30 feet. I think about just ripping him in half while he is in the air and sort of see it in my minds eye. Instead, I slam him down hard creating another dust cloud. I can't see him for the dust but I don't waist anytime.

    I hulk jump into the air with my gladius drawn and come down on him like Link does in the Legend of Zelda.



    I stab his midsection and quickly jump off and cleanly slice his head off. I raise it up it in air for the crown. I hear another Pro-Wrestling-cheer as I stand there. At this point I lose focus and wake up.

    I go ahead and try to DEILD one more time.

    I find myself standing in the arena again but there are no people this time. I notice my hands are on fire and I spend some time playing with it. Again I think it must be the L-Dopa. I create a jet of wizard fire like Rand from The Wheel of Time. I do various hand motions turning the fire off and on again. I focus on remembering the feeling and technique for next time when I am not so full of L-Dopa. I soon wake up.
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    There was a lot of detail in these dreams but all of them moved quickly and seemed super short. Although I enjoyed the control, I think I prefer extended play. I had high insomnia and dreamed little until later in the morning. I felt there was a huge REM rebound but was too tired to recall much or get lucid again.
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    Comments

    1. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Great work, killer!! It's funny that you described these dreams as short because they seem very high-level, detailed, and involved. I guess that the L-dopa dreams might bring a bit of a different feel. It sounds like an incredible series of LDs, honestly. Just an all-around great dream.

      And I love that the crowd sounded like NES Pro Wrestling.

      Well I am insanely jealous and insanely inspired to finally get on the board with Task of the Year. You are running a nice pace for TotY. If you can keep this up you are definitely going to nail it.

      So how's it feel to have nailed fire?? Just a couple of days ago you were thinking about giving up on this for a while, and here you are doing it with ease! That is so cool. Even though I mostly believe that the L-dopa helped you, do you ever wonder whether you might be getting a placebo boost of confidence? And how would you ever separate the two short of having your wife replace your L-dopa with a sugar pill.

      P.S. A Winner Is You!
    2. Xanous's Avatar
      Thanks man. It was really short. the last few were vividly rich and beautiful but it was all fast paced and flowed really quickly. During my insomia I felt the urge to get up and go go go. I think this carried over into the dreams.

      The fire part just sort of happened without trying. I took it as practice more than anything. It felt like a training ground to get feel of it. Once it felt natural and easy flowing I was able to turn it off and on. But yeah I think it was the L_Dopa but confidence would probably go a lot farther. I wouldn't mind if my wife did replace it with sugar pills. I would be able to dream longer and still have the placebo effect.
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      Updated 03-31-2013 at 08:05 PM by Xanous
    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Well here's the thing. Take away the L-dopa, and the fire is now something you've still done. You know you're capable of it and you know what it feels like. You can do it again. Your mind has presented you with irrefutable proof of your own capabilities. That's pretty great, if you ask me. I could see L-dopa serving as good training wheels for new skills.
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    4. Xanous's Avatar
      Exactly! The thing is now that I've done it Im not sure I care to repeat it. It doesn't seem particularly useful. It was just one of those things I wanted to accomplish. My style seems to be more bare hands and physical like a beast instead of wizard.
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah I get you on that. It's very straightforward for me to hit something really hard or even do some high-force telekenesis in an LD. But stuff like throwing a fireball still feels like a very foreign idea to me. It would only occur to me if I set out to do it. On the other hand, I've done panic force-pushes and stuff. The powers that are most instinctual tend to be the ones that feel the most visceral, satisfying, and natural to me. For me that's also the more physical stuff.

      LIKE A BEAST!!
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    6. Xanous's Avatar
      Lol!

      Yeah you what? TK has always been really easy for me for whatever reason. I wonder if it's like that for everyone.
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