Kholdstare
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I don't remember the very beginning of this dream, but the first thing I know, I'm lucid. The area I'm in is kind of strange. I'm in my living room, but the roof is blown clear off and it was night (it also must have been spring since it wasn't freezing). In the area that normally leads to my kitchen, there was a cobblestone-lined path. Rather than turn back to where my room or the front door would have been, since those areas looked dark and uninviting despite the moonlight, I decided to follow the path. To the right was a solid concrete wall. After a few feet, the path abruptly turned left. The path continued on into the darkness (which shrouded the land only a few meters away), but on the right of the path there was some kind of witch hut with its lights on. At least, that's what I think the thing was, as I never went inside.

Deciding to test out my lucid dreaming skills, I went back into the living room. The house no longer looked uninviting and was now lit with moonlight, so I went towards my room and closed the door. I imagined one of my friends being behind the door and opened it again; nothing. Then, I painstakingly imagined every detail of what would happen when I opened the door and opened it again; still, my friend didn't appear. This friend in particular never seemed to show up on command, only appearing in a dream by chance, something she did rarely. I gave up quickly and attempted to do something else.

I returned to the concrete wall and decided to try to draw the outline of a portal on the wall with my fingers. After all, most of my lucid dreams start in the dark, and my main goal for some is to find light so I can practice without fear of anything attacking me; I could just use the portal to teleport me to the place I was in, but during the day. For a while, nothing happened, but eventually my finger started leaving a glowing trail behind (I guess it just needed ink?). I drew a square in the wall with this glowing trail, but nothing immediately happened. I tried pushing on the square, and suddenly it rotated on the spot, revealing some kind of a pink/lavender void behind it. Before I could think I lunged into the void.

Briefly, my vision turned black and some words popped up in the middle of my vision. I don't remember what they were, sadly, but I do know it was only one or two. My vision quickly cleared, and I was in some sort of floating building. The sky was a cross between blue and lavender, and there were gaps in some parts of the floor; looking down, I could see clouds the same color as the void. The building itself was golden in color and seemed to be emitting a gold aura of sorts, and the walls were highly detailed. Either way, this was apparently a mini-dungeon of sorts I had to complete to progress. It was very sort, too: all I had to do was turn left, jump across a gap, run to the end of the room, turn right, jump across a second gap, and I was at the end. The wall here was concrete, like the one I drew on to get inside. Logically, I was supposed to draw another portal on the concrete.

This took me to a second minidungeon. My vision turned black again and words came up again, this time several. Aesthetically, it was identical to the previous minidungeon, yet this one was much simpler. There was a long hallway, the right side lined with pillars and a large hole in the floor to the right. At the end of the hallway, you had to jump right across another gap, which was where the concrete wall was. In the middle of the hallway, there was some sort of zombie thing. I easily slew the zombie by shoving him into the void, and I easily got through the rest of the minidungeon. I drew a portal and stepped through.

Annoyingly, it led back to where I started, still during the night. There was also someone at my side, a guy who I didn't know but reminded me of one of my old friends. We decided to travel along the cobble-lined path further. After half a minute of walking, an inexplicable strike of lightning struck the earth, a horrible sound booming across the world. The lightning illuminated the place, revealing that we were in a somewhat hilly (yet clear) area surrounded by a forest, with the cobblestone path branching in two, one split leading to the forest and the other staying in the clear area. A large bone was sticking out of the ground up ahead on the left, and a dead tree was on the opposite side of the path. For whatever reason, the dead tree was covered in human skulls.

Then, the eyes of the skulls started glowing. They erupted in purple flame and became animate and began to fly at me (slowly).

Then, the large bone began to move, and a humongous skeletal dragon head burst out of the ground. Paralyzed in fear, I could only watch as it completely tore out of the ground and looked me dead in my eyes. They too, glowed, and the dragon erupted into purple flame. It let loose a horrible roar.

At this point, I probably could have reasoned with the dragon. It WAS a dream, after all, and you can usually get an assailant to stop attacking fairly easy. However, assailants in my dreams tend to be more vicious and committed, and there was also a GIANT BURNING BONE DRAGON roaring at me. The thoughts of "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE" drowned out reason, so I high-tailed it out of there. Fortunately, the concrete wall wasn't far away. I heard the bone dragon sprinting after me, its steps causing miniature earthquakes. I drew a portal and felt the dragon's presence right behind me as I pushed the portal open and leapt into the void. (In some ways I consider this an accomplishment; if I were less experienced and I had the same dream, chances are I would have woken up at the skulls or even the zombie-thing).

I entered yet another minidungeon. I can finally remember the words that pop up on my vision for one of these things; this one happened to say "Heaven". I guess they were names. Anyway, this minidungeon had the exact same loadout as the first one I went into, except it was mirrored. The dungeon itself was somewhat different aesthetically. Unlike the previous one, the walls were made of silver, and they were covered in small red, blue, and green dots, all of which glowed. Have you ever wanted a wall made out of christmas lights? This was that wall. Either way, the minidungeon was laughably easy to complete since I had done it before.

Upon drawing a portal on the wall, I woke up. Damnit.

This took place in a video game for some time.

I have no idea what was happening early on, but I do know that I had a lot of junk in my inventory and that every monster killed would drop a humongous pill shaped like a Sweet Tart. Eventually, I happened upon some kind of a demon guy who offered to take me to a shop. I accepted. First he told me to put some things on a raft in some water (I put my whole backpack on the raft) and he teleported me.

He transported me into this small room with a couple of tables (the kind you would see in a school cafeteria, but without seats) covered in plastic table cloths. Apparently, putting things on the raft automatically sells them for you, which is annoying because everything I owned was in that backpack. Fortunately, I got the backpack back as well as a good share of cash. Each table had a handful of items for sale on it. Most of them were pretty worthless for me, such as packs of M&Ms, but I did note a pair of gloves and some jewelry. Upon further inspection, though, the jewelry was made out of plastic. The pair of gloves was beige, rather worn, and made of suede. A simple pair of work gloves. However, for whatever reason, they were highly enchanted. I picked them up and bought them and immediately put them on. I tried to see if any of the plastic jewelry was enchanted, but I noticed that it (among most things in the store; the gloves must have been an anomaly) cost "tickets" instead of cash. I only had one, so I started walking out. Along the way I bumped the jewelry cabinet with my backpack that had suddenly become full, and I was ushered out very quickly.

Some time later, I was in the dungeon to the south of the demon guy. My inventory was nearly full again and I was traveling to the shop. I had very little money, though I had apparently recruited a lot of IRL friends. They told me to go left of where I was currently, and I did. I found a giant coin (which apparently earned me absolutely no money) as well as some assorted loot further down. The entire area was pitch black. I exited and finished traveling to the demon that transported me to the shop, only to discover that the area was flooded. My friends apparently had the ability to place rafts to reach him and were bickering over how to orient them. They finally settled on an arrangement, and I jumped to one raft where the salesdemon was. I noticed that there was apparently something on one of the other rafts, so I jumped to it. The raft was not very stable, however, and flipped over the moment I landed. A minor commotion rose up among my friends who claimed that if the rafts had been oriented their way, I would not have fallen in. I ignored them and climbed back onto the salesdemon raft. The selling raft was a good distance away and I figured I could just sell me junk directly in the shop, so I began to ask the salesdemon to teleport me.

Before I could finish, though, one of my friends stopped me. Everyone collaboratively threw their entire inventory onto the sell platform so that I could buy everyone (me included) some new equipment. But mostly me, because I was awesome. I resumed teleporting.

In essence, this did NOTHING. When I arrived at the shop, I only had 50 gold (in comparison to, IIRC, 1987 gold from the first time). Apparently putting items on the selling platform resulted in the owner gaining money when they teleported, not the next person to teleport. Only one person came with me, and they had nothing in their inventory to sell. It seemed like nobody would buy my items, either, so I was stuck window shopping.

The store was completely different this time around. Instead of looking like a makeshift school store, it looked like a distinguished magic shop. Various magical and magic-related items were stocked on various shelves. Immediately after teleporting in, I saw a fire-shooting staff that would definitely come in handy; I figured I could attempt to steal it since it was apparently inside a small box that couldn't possibly fit a staff. When I went over to it's shelf, however, it had been replaced by something else.

The items were widely varied and all magical as I said, but everyone except for the shopkeepers seemed to be incapable of magic. I noticed that the dark of the place was dark, so me and the one friend that came with me took out a flashlight and entered the darkness. We could see a rack of very dusty, cobweb-ridden barrels of various sizes (even something that looked like half a liter) for sale. There were some equally dusty picnic tables scattered around, and a wooden (!?!) fireplace centered in the room. The darkened area was like a whole new room, being a lot more rustic and a lot less modern than the actual shop.

We noticed a door in the dark area. We figured that we could possibly score some loot from the area behind it, as it seemed like nobody had gone to the dark area for literally ages. As soon as we started walking towards it, I woke up.



Interestingly, magic shops accessed via teleportation appear to be recurring of all things. Not long ago I had a dream where if I clapped my hands together, locked my legs, closed my eyes, and concentrated, I would teleport to a magic shop that also happened to be selling a very crappy katana. The stock changed every time I went to that magic shop, but the room layout was the same.

Honestly, I have no idea what it was. I think it was an unintentional WILD but for the most part the experience was identical to my previous DEILD experiences.

So, I was woken up by my mother at 5:30. She thought I had school today, but I didn't (I had forgotten to tell her that we didn't have school today) so she went to go do some things. I considered doing a more proper WBTB but I was tired so I didn't bother and I went back to sleep. I feel like at some point I had lost consciousness and went to sleep, but the next thing I knew, I was aware (with my eyes closed) and a green and blue spiral was in front of my eyes, identical to my previous two DEILD experiences. I heard a very heavy and turbulent wind blowing around me (think of a strong wind during a storm near the sea; that sort of whistly wind). I immediately noticed what was happening and that I could enter a lucid dream, so I tried to imagine a generic tropical island. For a brief moment, the green and blue swirl faded away and I felt (and "saw" through my eyelids but i'm nearly certain this was a hallucination) an intense, warm light on my face and the turbulent wind stopped, but after a couple moments the wind picked back up and the swirl came back. I tried imagining the tropical island again, and soon I entered a dream, barely lucid.

I was not in my body, yet I could still see. I had absolutely no control over myself at this point, but I was hovering around a tiny ice-covered island dotted with penguins, getting a view of the whole thing before I was taken close to my own body stumbling in some snow (sort of like my first DEILD, where I hovered around a zelda-style dungeon as my mind generated it and my consciousness zoomed back into my body at the entrance when it was done). I looked at myself from a short distance away, and I thought to myself that I had to keep my awareness up. I rubbed my hands together quickly and focused on the heat it generated (bizarrely enough it was fairly warm on the polar island). My consciousness zoomed back into my body. I began to explore the island on foot, but unfortunately my awareness and recall started tanking and I lost lucidity. I can't recall what happened, but I do remember the end of the dream; I was looking for food on some sort of a futuristic base in a jungled area whilst fighting off aliens or something.




What surprises me most is that this resembled my previous two DEILDs a lot, especially the first one. In the first one, I saw the blue-green spiral and heard a turbulent wind. This eventually died down, after which I heard a very friendly feminine voice close to my face saying "Wake up, [name]. Wake up. Can you hear me? Save me..." after which I "asked" to be taken to a dungeon to conquer. Then, as I explained above, I saw the dungeon being generated from a distance without my body or control of my body and my consciousness zoomed back into my body when it was finished. In the second one, I saw the blue-green spiral (so far it has been identical every time, the only time I had a different visual hallucination was in this one when I saw the bright light) and heard and felt the wind, though this time it sounded vaguely magical and it felt like it was spiraling as if it were a hurricane. I imagined a jungled island like I did now, and my (real) eyes opened and I saw my bedroom as if it had been jungleified. I tried to examine it more closely, but it became my real room and I was fully awake.

Very strange how the spiral and the wind crops up every time... I wonder if it could mean something. I'm not sure if this was DEILD or WILD but I don't really care much.

Unfortunately, my recall has been shoddy recently so I can't explain the whole dream. However, one part particularly stood out; I was sitting at my desk in the living room (which I haven't done in years), flicking through some gameboy games. I took a look at a game in a red cartridge (as if it were Pokemon Fire Red) and noticed it was one of my "favorite" games. I then explained what it was as if my dream were a television program as snapshots of gameplay showed up in my vision.

What makes this most interesting is that I had been inside this game before in a previous dream, playing it like a top-down Zelda game. The only thing I saw in this dream of it was the character killing a snake in a room that gave me a lot of trouble, but it still amazes me that that particular dream decided to show itself again.

This dream is split up into three parts; a part before that focuses on my two new dream brothers, a middle intermission sort of thing where I become lucid and teach some hobo-looking guy how to become lucid as well (and fly of course), and a third part with all the psuedo-Norse mythology woven in.

The first part I don't remember too well. My mother had given birth to two baby boys, that were apparently fist-sized and swimming in a coffee concoction with marshmallows (I tasted a cup of it without a baby in it; it was actually pretty good and tasted like hot chocolate with a bit of coffee, but I had no idea what a baby was doing in it; I think it may have been some sort of life support because they were so tiny?) Most of the time in this part of the dream I just talked with my family, including the brothers (yes, they could talk). At some point the dream abruptly switched to a zombie apocalypse game similar to a TF2 server I play on. Since there were no classes in reality, the best way to survive was to hide, so I hid alone behind my mom's bed (I should mention that most of the house was different, but my mom's room and a nearby hallway were the same as in reality). No zombies ever drew near, and eventually time ran out and I won. Most of my family (including aunts, uncles, etc) had become zombified, leaving only my immediate family alive (sans the brothers, they vanished at this point): me, my sister, and my mother. My memory of the dream is shaky from here, but I believe we play again. This time, there are classes from TF2, so I switch to engineer and build a sentry in my mom's hallway. I put a dispenser behind me, and two teleporters in front of the sentry (in-game they stop a variant of the demoman class called a demoknight from charging due to the small height change). I wish that I had more support and turn around to see that there are two more sentry guns placed behind me from two friendly engineers; I later realize this is impossible because the max limit is two engineers, but I paid no attention to it. The dream is fuzzy from here.

Notably, my father never appears in this segment, my real one or otherwise.

In the intermission, i'm at a park; it was sort of like an area of New York I had seen, it may have been Central Park. I notice something is amiss and I become lucid. The vast majority of the people walking around also seem to wake up as if they had become lucid in their own dreams, and they collectively fly away together. A man is left behind that looks sort of like a hobo, who looks pretty grim. I ask him what is wrong, and he says he doesn't know how to control his dreams. I go over the basics for him and then I goof around with flying (which I have not done for several months due to a lack of LDs; fortunately for me, they have begun returning and i'm getting one every few days now).

At some point during the intermission (not sure when but it was before I came lucid), i'm standing in a classroom. A very pretty girl asks me where I live, and I respond (for whatever reason she says that it isn't a real town even though she asked me if I lived there by name, and I say that it is). She then tells me where she lives tells me that she likes me (lelz) and that she would like to meet me at her house. Since it was pretty hard to refuse, I said "all right". She then vanishes before my eyes. The dream gets fuzzy from there on out, but I remember being annoyed that she simply vanished and that for as long as I can remember in that part, I stayed in the classroom.

After this, I lost lucidity.

The third part is a continuation of the first part. My family (this time with a father, though not my real father) has moved into a new house. It's several years into the future; my sister is only at the house for a small time as she has to go to New York for school, and the brothers are now around four years old and walking (and capable of advanced speech; this doesn't surprise me even now, as they could talk while they were swimming in coffee). I begin to feel jealous of my brothers, now that I am not an only child (this is false, I was never an only child; I conveniently forgot my sister here). I walk around our new house, exploring (it looked miles better than the old one) and chatting with my family. Eventually, I got annoyed and went outdoors. There are a couple of farm buildings around our house (but no barn). I approached one and discovered that we now owned some sort of chimera-like creature, a horse with a giant chicken head. It's behavior was a lot like a dog, though it also acted like a cat in that it wasn't very noisy. For whatever reason, I decided that it was a good time to fly away, so I flew up and over the trees surrounding my house. I was flying horizontally with my belly facing up and my back towards the canopy. Occasionally, I would see a massive tree that looked something like a deciduous redwood. I had to dodge one once, as it was in my way. They got more and more abundant the further I went, and eventually the canopy of one of the smaller trees below me rose up enough to stop me in my tracks and entangle me. I struggled to get free. After a while, I managed to get out, and I promptly flew back the way I came, this time actually looking where I was going (in other words, I flew with my belly facing the canopy and looking forward rather than my belly facing the sky and looking up).

After some time, I reached my house again. I was very fed up with how everything was going, so I decided to leave (somehow) by "exiting out of the server" as if it were a game. I magically opened up a menu, but in place of what I expected to be "exit", it instead said "ascend". I clicked on ascend (somehow), and out of nowhere some sort of a valkyrie appeared, said some things I don't recall, and caused a kind of magic spring to appear at my feet.

A few things to note about the spring; it wasn't in the ground at all, it was on the surface surrounded by these crystal walls that shimmered various cool colors (primarily purple, pink, cyan, and blue in that order of rarity). Some of the rocks lying on the ground near the spring also became the same kind of crystal, but it was merely a pale, transparent gray. Dipping it in the water caused it to glow like the crystal walls for a moment before fading back to gray. The walls themselves had some sort of a pattern on it; there were waves (or was it a pattern of double helixes?) etched into the crystal, but in the center of each wave was a circle. The water itself, as I said, caused the crystal to grow. However, the water tasted excellent! It was just cold enough, with a very faint sweetness, and you could almost taste pure power in it. I sensed that it had healing properties as well.

I went back inside. The brothers, my sister (she was back somehow), and my mother had no idea what it was, and my whole immediate family was standing on the second floor looking out a window at it. I said something about it, (I think I said something incredibly out of character, along the lines of "So what, i'm barely old enough to summon it..."; when I said this, the number 3102 flashed in my vision briefly) and my "father" reacted. He said something along the lines of "You summoned that, boy? You shouldn't have done that! Not with all these omens, anyway..." He got angry, and (switching back to video game elements) I said that I could just reload from my last save to before I summoned it. He questioned me further and I told him that it was from some time before I summoned it but after I went outside, and he told me to reload the save. I did.

I was back outside, in a second stable (the first one from before contained the chicken horse; this was a different one). There were, for whatever reason, female rumps sticking out of the walls. My sister was nearby and called me a pervert. I shrugged it off and left the stable.

The dream gets fuzzy from here, but I made sure not to click the "ascend" button again. After some time, the valkyrie came again and took me away.

Next thing I know, i'm in a very small sort of mausoleum. It's floating off the ground, and it's made of a transparent gray glass, and it's lined with some sort of gold-colored material. Outside, I can see thousands and thousands of excited people crowded in some large circular walled-in area; it's a very grand looking place, made of stone and decorated with the same gold material as in the mausoleum. I can detect that you can only see through the glass from the inside; the people on the outside cannot see me or anything else in here. I stop looking outside and look ahead. In front of me is a very old yet powerful looking man, and behind him is a stone coffin. Next to me is the valkyrie; for the first time, I can get a good look at her. She's half my size, so I assume she's a dwarf; she looks kind of like She-Ra, but with slightly darker skin, and she also has angel wings. The old, powerful man explains to me that he is Odin and that I am his heir, and that I am next in line to take his place as a god. He then explains my job (quickly) and that the valkyrie was my servant. He wishes me luck and enters the coffin. For a moment, my vision shifts out of myself and I can see the mausoleum from the side; once Odin enters the coffin, his robe-like clothes pop on to me, and my vision promptly switches back to my eyes. The coffin vanishes, and the mausoleum rockets up and eventually shatters.

The valkyrie and I are both floating high above. Since i'm now a god, I decide to exit the arena-like place and fly around the city a little. It's quite spectacular with the gold decorations and the stone (I like stone ), though I still have no idea what it is (it matches up to a Christian heaven more than Asgard). Shortly, the assistant valkyrie mentions that I have duties to attend to (unsurprisingly) so I ask what they are. She says that I have to create more of those magic pools I had seen earlier. Since I was new to the job, the valkyrie would help me with this one. She showed me that I had a way of calling upon a radar to see where I was needed (I explain it at the end of the page), and she showed me a rather danger-free area where a pool was needed. She poked the spot on the radar where the pool was needed and we both teleported there.

I appeared on the ground in a small town that looked similar to one in Skyrim in Whiterun hold. This was fitting, as the word "Skyrim" appeared in white letters in the middle of my vision, and faded out soon. The valkyrie began walking in some direction, and I followed her; we eventually found a sort of hay-filled indoors area where a person was sitting. The valkyrie showed me the incantation required to summon the pool, and soon enough a magic pool very similar to the one created for me when I hit "ascend" appeared. Something was amiss, though, and soon the valkyrie noticed several tiny blue imps with pitchforks flying around in the sky. The dream was fuzzy here, but I seem to remember a second valkyrie appearing to deal with the imps and both me and the assistant valkyrie heading back to the city.

People in the city were starting to riot; the blue imps were here, too. Here and there were a couple of valkyries fending them off, but even though they killed plenty they seemed to keep coming. The assistant valkyrie told me that in order to stop them, I had to create more of the pools, which would somehow help the valkyries fend off the imps. Unfortunately for me, the assistant had to stay and fight or else the city would be overrun by the imps, so I had to summon the next pool alone. Worst of all, the pool was required in the red region, and the valkyrie mentioned that most valkyries that went there did not return, and that I had to be very careful; it was probably best, then, that she stayed or else she would be slain.

When I poked the place where I was needed, it took me to a sort of overhead look at some sort of organic place. Two people were talking in the background, and saying that it was a wretched place and it was a miracle that people survived there at all. They mentioned one small town which was apparently major, and said that it was conquered by some sludge thing.

Eventually, I found myself in some sort of a fleshy tube. The path ahead was filled with all manner of nasty monsters. My view zoomed out so I had a third person view of myself, though as a consequence I lost control of myself. The Valkyries were right; I was having a tough time killing the monsters here (I even encountered one of the sludges that singlehandedly wiped out a town, as the two voices mentioned that gave me a hell of a time), and I was a god. The dream fades as I fight in the horrifying place, and I wake up.



A few notes on this dream: from what I can tell, the valkyrie is based off of the one from Nethack. It's especially probable, considering that the first time I seriously played the game and for a good while after that, I was a dwarf valkyrie. The strange thing, though, is that dwarven valkyries are always lawful, and lawful valkyries (whether dwarf or human) worship Tyr. Only neutral valkyries (which as I said cannot be a dwarf and must be a human) are capable of worshiping Odin. The dwarven valkyrie also could not have been wearing a Helm of Opposite Alignment, as that would make her chaotic rather than neutral and she would thus worship Loki instead. This indicates that, in order for her to become neutral by in-game standards, she would have to pray at a neutral altar with negative alignment as a lawful valkyrie, which would cause her to lose luck (meaning she would probably no longer be able to pray) and would change her alignment to neutral. What surprises me is that this valkyrie is probably the one most loyal to Odin, despite the fact that it would take a long time to get to good standing with Odin compared to a human valkyrie that started out worshiping Odin.

The position of Odin in this dream world is probably in name only. From what I theorize, the original Odin in this world is actually long-dead, unless the dream world is incredibly young. The various Odins are not immortal like you would expect a god to be, and age just like a human and can die of old age (though they probably are immune to disease and whatnot since they ARE gods). Thus, when they get old, they choose the next suitable person; this happens to be their heir, if there is one. Thus, the old Odin dies, and the heir takes up the throne and becomes a new Odin. Sort of like the Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride.

Of slight note is that I, as Odin, did not use Gungnir. I had a whip of some kind. Granted, when I ended up in combat, the dream started falling apart.

Apparently, hitting the Ascend button changed the timeline. In the button where I got the magic pool, someone else must have become Odin, and the valkyrie showed them what they needed to do to create the pool; since the valkyrie created the pool for me the first time it was required when I was Odin, this would explain why the valkyrie created the pool for me when I hit Ascend, since I became Odin in the second timeline at roughly the same time as I got the magic pool in the first timeline.

Allow me to explain the radar: it was shaped like a semicircle and split into five parts. The leftmost part was red, the part above that was some kind of greenish red (isn't that an impossible color?), and the remaining three points were green. I believe the green areas indicated areas of low danger where pools were needed. Since an area in the red zone took me to the horrifying place, I can only assume that the red areas are the dangerous areas. The greenish-red area must lead to an area of slightly more danger than the completely green areas (it wasn't THAT reddish) but I never went there so I could not tell. There was also a button centered on the bottom that took me back to the city with the gold gilding.




Holy crépes that was long. Haven't had a dream that long in a while. My recall must be improving.