Dreamlog

Fragment:
I’m staying somewhere in a swamp-like area. Like a hotel.
There is a patio type spot with a bed so low to the ground that it is nearly level to the water.
I tell my girlfriend that we should have stayed in this room, but I know she wouldn't have wanted to deal with the water.


Swampland Hotel.

Firelord Putin:
Two Fire Nation brothers are coming towards me, leaping over tall buildings to get to me.
They want me to come see something.
They've invented something to find the Avatar.
It’s a big ATM-like machine. It beeps and boops and makes a confirmation sound, printing out a receipt.
Then another group of guys appears and questions what we are doing. We try to keep the info secret, but they know.
…
The Fire Lord and Zuko are giving a speech to the Fire Nation on a stage in front of a large crowd.
I’m in a large group including people from every nation. Tenzin from Legend of Korra is part of it.
The Fire Lord is talking about loyalty and exceptional individuals.
My group slowly sidles onto the stage and fills in behind the Fire Lord, catching him off guard.
I notice the Avatar is with us too.
When we come into the crowd’s view, the speech stops abruptly.
The adults are sent off to a room with the Fire Lord to discuss a treaty.
…
I’m now back in a regular hotel room, with J from high-school. I notice she has a small mustache.
We are sharing a bed, but more like a field trip way than a romantic one.
I start to unpack and setup the bed. There are about six people in the room.
…
Some of the group returns from the war room, and the situation has instead changed into us being the United Nations, and the Fire Lord being Vladimir Putin.
Somebody is telling us how the UN was grilling him about things like Area 51 and similar, and how he danced around the questions.

Zuko:
There is a Fire Nation City from Avatar the Last Airbender.
Azula is chasing Zuko in some kind of battle or showdown.
...
Zuko is part of a ceremony at a big outdoor theater.
He is renouncing the Sun, and getting painted to symbolize his new loyalty.

I came across a 2015 post by Sensei about active versus passive control:
https://www.dreamviews.com/dream-con...esson-1-a.html

In there, he makes an analogy about walking to the fridge and how that is a simple learned behavior for us, but challenging to his son who was taking his first steps. In a similar way, confidence and skill to achieve lucid dreaming goals can be attained.

Memory control is a similar idea, but has an obvious flaw: when one is doing something new there is no memory to pull on. Sensei suggests (if I am understanding correctly) to essentially pretend there is a memory of yourself achieving whatever goal that is.

My idea to execute on that is to visualize myself practicing something like Firebending from Avatar: The Last Airbender while meditating normally. This can then serve as the memory needed to achieve actual dream control in a lucid dream.

Thanks Sensei!

Earthbending Teeth
Toph and Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender are fighting. Toph is on the offensive and Iroh is evading everything. Toph realizes that teeth would fall under her earthbending's jurisdiction, so she starts to bend Iroh's teeth. Toph wreaks havoc on Iroh's mouth.

Wall Kicks Will Work
There is a shrine in a gloomy place. It is similar to the area after falling down the tree in Zelda: Majora's Mask. The shrine represents a somber memory. I can recall dream-me thinking about how I had created it in other places before and that others wouldn't recognize it. Personal memory, but I don't know what it means. It was some arrangement of a small tree and a big pink flower.

There is a dead end after the shrine, with a large closed door. The door is also in the Zelda style (where pressing 'A' would typically raise the door up and away so the player can enter). 'A' isn't working. I think to try wall-kicks from Mario 64. It works. I go higher and higher up and away. I land on platform jutting off of the wall opposite the shrine and find a locked door. Luckily I have one key left. I press 'A' to open the door, and it rises to let me enter as expected.

Inside, there is an expanse of blue beams sprawling out into the darkness. There are skultulas (spider monsters from the Zelda series) dotted throughout the room's ceiling. The monsters are on webs at different heights. I explore a little bit, but then I'm ambushed. A large skultula, the boss, attacks. I dispatch it with ease using a bow and arrow and start looking for my prize. Down a ladder there is a landing. Still in the rafters above, not down on the floor below where the shrine is.

I find a sarcophagus. The lid on it is very heavy but I remove it. There is a mummy inside. This is apparently my prize. I start thinking through the logistics of having a mummy in the house. And how creepy that would be...what if it wakes up and wanders the house at night?


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