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"Did the shark share the story?"

Yes. Don't ask me how it managed it, though.

"Dream logic certainly has some funny ways of working. "

It certainly does. : )

Did the shark share the story?

Dream logic certainly has some funny ways of working.

Oh, nice! I’m not from there originally, and I don’t live there now, but I have many nice memories of Prague – and of all the places I’ve lived, it’s the only one I still dream about regularly. In some form, anyway.

Come to think of it, I did fly over Petřin in a lucid dream once. I’d jumped through a window to get outside, and that was where I happened to end up. But that was long before the Dream-Prague dreams started.

I was born in Prague and still consider it a place close to my heart, although I am not there often these days.
I tried to go there several times in my lucid dreams. Once I saw a city that was correct geographically (the same type of the valley and the correct shape of the river) but the buildings and the feeling of it were completely wrong. Maybe a future-Prague
I've been there many times in non-lucid dreams but that's usually my childhood home or my grandmother home or in that area, never in the central districts or near any landmark.

Hey, thanks for stopping by! A Prague-inspired dream city, I’d say – I’ve had dreams of the place a bunch of times now and have yet to see anything specifically identifiable with the real city, like monuments or such. It is weirdly self-consistent, though, and I started thinking of it as Dream-Prague rather than just a dream of Prague after some of its unique locations turned up in multiple dreams.

I love your Dream-Prague. Does it have locations from Real-Prague or is it only a Prague-inspired-dreamcity?

Good point! Will focus on sounds more. Maybe it will make me hear more things in dreams.

Hi Zthread,

I’d say I have dreams with music in them pretty often, but I can only manage to transcribe any if I wake up directly from hearing it. If you want to hear more of it in dreams, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to make a point of keeping an ear out for it – or for sounds in general, even. It seems like we’re normally so focused on sight we forget about our other senses. But even hypnagogic imagery can be auditory so if you're fortunate enough to sleep in a less noisy environment than me, I'd say that's a good time to try to focus on it.

Amazing that you were able to transcribe those from dreams! Do your dreams often have music in them? Don't think mine do very often, but wish they did.

Oops, only just found this comment. Yeah, I bet it would be - at least, if your aim is better than mine is.

Smashing meteors sounds like a lot of fun!

It's peculiar to me that you have no memory of a dream until you become lucid (that's what I understood?). I would like WILD to be my method of choice too but currently in life it's too difficult for me for a few reasons, mainly related to my condition. Pretty much all my adult LDs have been from DILD or DEILD, and so dream recall has been quite important to keep track of my dream-signs.

And thanks for your reply. It's always interesting for me to know more about someone's contexts.

Normally, I have no idea how I become lucid in dreams since memory only seems to kick in after I'm lucid. My guess is that it's happening immediately on transitioning from nREM to REM. WILD has always been my method of choice, and so it would make sense that transitions within dreams often trigger the realization that I'm dreaming as well, as happened in this one.

I studied biology at one point in my life and, although I ended up going in a different direction, I still probably know more than my share of facts about plants, animals and the occasional fungus. : ) And, naturally, my dreaming brain is free to draw on what I've forgotten as well.

Perhaps what amused me most was that you said that the mushroom was obviously fly-agaric. I know nothing of mushrooms so that was interesting.

I like the way your dream brain details the forest. I really wouldn't expect mine to, but it's been a while since I've actually properly been inside a forest, but your description of it made a lot of sense to me anyway.

Was simply realising it was a dream without a check enough for you to become lucid? Is it normal for that to be the case?

Yeah, definitely. If I had more dreams like that, I'd probably manage to get lucid more often.

Heheh, guess that nightmare didn't fool you one bit.

Heh, I used to know someone who was a Metal Gear fan. For what it's worth, we did seem to be working on some exciting, action-y stuff in the dream.

This kinda reminds me of the hacker B.B. from Metal Gear Acid 2. An unknown assistant, proficient in technology, who helps Snake and co.