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To me Ryuuko is a major part of what motivates me to pursue lucid dreaming nowadays. She's a character I created for a shared dreaming RPG way back in early 2014, it's called Dreamsphere chronicles. I even made a forum for it but it just never really took off. Kinda bad, but it was a good and valuable experience anyways.
This journal is both a place for me to keep notes on her development, and to give context to my dreams involving her when I post them here.

The concept of Ryuuko has stuck with me through all the years though, up to this day, and will probably stick for many years to come. So I started working on her and establishing her in my dreams outside of said dream RPG.
When I created her I came up with a couple of requirements after which I designed her:
1. A very different personality from mine. From the beginning I wanted a character that had a substantially different way of living and looking at anything than I do, so it would give me a truly fresh perspective.
2. A very complex body. Rather than having a body that is simply humanoid (2 arms, 2 legs, 1 torso, 1 head) and thus easy to use I wanted something that would pose a serious challenge to control in it's entirety.
3. In accordance with the game I needed many different skills I could learn as time passes.
4. And obviously I wanted a body and person that would be pleasing to my personal aesthetic standards. Who wouldn't want that when designing a Dream-Alter-Ego?

In order to get something that was truly different from me, I first gave her the opposite gender of mine (so she's female), and then created her background and story in such a way to make her a 'blank slate'. In short for her story this means she's been created, was never meant to develop her own personality, but eventually did so anyway due to flaws in the experiment. At some point she develops a taste for freedom, escapes her birth place and that's when I would start seeing things from her perspective. Since it'd be considered amoral by the creators to restrain her, and since she'd be useless for her original purpose anyway they just let her go and started over.
The point of this weird story is to let her experience the world with an adult body, an adult set of predefined knowledge, but no actual experience and no real personality, so that I could witness the forming of her personality firsthand. And I'm doing my best not to set a direction myself.

Next was her body. Since I wanted something that would be truly interesting to use in a dream, a simple human body wasn't an option for me. So I designed her as a Dragongirl/Ryumimi, which adds 1 tail and 2 wings to the equation. Since that didn't seem enough I also threw in 6 auxiliary limbs, which roughly look like tentacles, which then again brings her total amount of controllable extremities from 4 all the way up to 13 (2 arms, 2 legs, 1 tail, 2 wings, 6 'tentacles').
Also she hears with her horns as opposed to hearing the way humans do, because I wonder how a notion like that might affect the senses in dreams.
As for her skin, her entire body is actually covered in thick armor-like scales, which in turn are covered by skin or even thicker exo-scales, so she has some decent protection even without separate armor (I tend to be invincible without any intervention in dreams anyway, so it makes sense to come up with a concept that explains the sturdiness to some degree).
All those features give her a whopping mass of around 185kg. In reality mass generally equals weight but since it's not about reality I placed her weight at around 30kg.
If you're not aware what such a sharp difference in mass and weight would cause, it allows her to fly and keep her altitude much easier as she would only need 30kg of lift, but she still needs to put in the effort of getting 185kg moving in the first place. She can reach high top speeds, and she can turn around on the spot quickly, but she's neither going to make sudden dashes, sudden breaks or U-turns.

Her abilities involve all sorts of things that are fun to do in a dream, flying, fire-breathing, exploding fireballs... stuff like that.
So yeah, the concept is probably kind of over-the-top but in order to make her the most interesting to implement in dreams that's exactly what I was going for.

As implied she's my Dream-Alter-Ego. That means that when I have (lucid) dreams I try to turn into her, experiencing the world around me not with my body, my thoughts and my perspective, but hers instead. So far I had some limited success in doing so, but typically there are many months in between any Ryuuko dreams, so I have a lot of work in the dream realm ahead of me.

Not so long about during the summer, I had a dream about a man barging into my sisters house while I was alone and had raped me, ever since then I was never comfortable staying alone. Later a couple months after around September I had dreamed again of another man raping me in his house in these sketchy apt near my house, which is weird because I don't know anyone who lives in those apts. about a night ago I had a dream that this man climbed through my window and had raped me, I had never seen this man and he beat me and poured the burning candle wax on my thigh. Ever since these dreams I have been so afraid and uncomfortable to stay home alone.

Saved poem elsewhere. Think it triggered a nightmare.

I was having a lucid when I saw my dad. I tried to talk with him, but he was pre-occupied. I felt like this may be my dad's spirit rather than a DC. He started telling me how water was overflowing and he had to take care of it. I wanted to talk to him. I said "Dad, do you realize what is going on? There is no water. You died a couple of years ago, and I am seeing you through a dream I am having." He broke down crying.

Last night bed around 8:30pm - 3:30am

DR:

I'm standing on a sidewalk where a bus top used to be, in front of the Bulgarian's house. I may be talking to someone in a truck. Another, white pickup drives by and as it slows down, it starts to aim and shoot some kind of a weapon. They stop in front of the car, one guy gets out and gets in a passenger seat of a truck they have been shooting at. They drive off with that driver still in a car, while I think passenger went to the attackers car. They are being kidnapped.

As soon as this started, I duck and sneak around the corner and I turn one more corner to get away and I hope they won't see me. I hope they were not after me. I watch them from behind the bushes.

Now I am at my friends house. They redid their living room into a restaurant. People are also sitting at the bar in other room at their house, which I thought they remodeled so they can live there.

Spent my time on here dealing w/ all of this shit. Reporting all of the problems that DV is having.:

Repeated problems w/ displaying the pages & losing entries
1. I click my bookmark & sits there for an eternity looking for the page. I have deleted the bookmark & created a new one. Problem not solved.
2. I go to post my DJ & all is lost due to error msg.
3. I try to like a post & another error msg.
4. I must clear all browsing history every day because of the endless Facebook conflict. Not to mention that we can't use the FB feature on here at all. This particular problem has been here for so many months that I have lost track. We need to not be inconvenienced by this persistent problem. I can't leave pages up which is crucial for research. I could use a different browser but that is not an option when I utilize Google Chrome.
5. Now I can't toggle pages w/o it all going blank before eventually displaying the error msg
6. Here are the error messages:

The dream starts with an insanely present moment. I can't call it lucid because I didn't bother to check, it was so real. I'm hanging out with my parents in their bedroom, and some random super sexy girl who I'm somehow connected with through school is with us. She's lying on the bed and my parents are talking about how we need to get on a flight with some alumni and go visit a retreat, but I'm just resting my head on this girls boobs like a pillow and I'm at absolute 100% comfiness. I come into full presence and actively try to store the memory of how comfy I am without every wondering if it is supernatural. We get on the flight, and it ends up slowly crash landing in a town somewhere. In the town we all go and chill in a park while they fix the plane, and some methheads come attack us and we fend them off. I realize the plane will never leave in time, so I sprint across town to the only car2go left and snag it. As I get in, a girl gets in on the passenger side thinking it's hers. She's from my highschool and wearing a nuniform so I just pull seniority on her and take the car. I start ripping it full speed on the highway when I go off the road. When I swerve back on, I cut off a pickup truck that swerved and slammed into a family SUV killing everybody. I am totally freaked out by this so I floor it, but all the cars around me are waving at me to stay with the accident. Fuck that shit, I didn't touch anyone so I'm just booking it out of town. I never took the pedal off the floor after that until I got back to the city.

17-Dec-2016 - WILD + 2 OBEs - Explore town, become a giant

Wake up ~6AM, no ND recall, I attempt a WILD

WILD
Several short scenes. In the longest part I am reading a "magic" book sitting on a chair in my tower. Then I fall asleep

OBE #1 I am in my bed, on my wife's side, head resting at feet side. I am shaking uncontrollably, teeth chattering. I know I can exit my body
I need to put a lot of force to get up, but I manage to do it. Bedroom is dark; I move to the living room, everything is still quite dark but I can see a bit; Xmas tree is not there. I go to the curtains and phase through them. I am in a nice town, although not my usual one, it looks more historical, with low stone houses, a cobblestone road, small gardens with pink and violet flowers. I fly slow and low on this town, I cannot help looking in awe at this place, which looks extremely real (waking note: although empty). I pass by a low stone wall and a flower bush; I decide going back to take a second look, but when I do, the scene is a bit different; I think, no wonder, since I am dreaming. There is also a well, I approach it; dream recall fades here

OBE #2 I am in my bed, same side as before, again shaking and teeth chattering. I know I can exit my body again, good ! I exit, easily this time. Again, bedroom is dark. This time I exit phasing directly through bedroom curtain. I find a town, not exactly mine, but more similar to it than latest LD. I think about the DHL Month 5 clone task. My SC does some mix and match here: for some reason I want to become a giant tree. I reach an open area and focus on increasing my body size. It works well, and I can feel my arm enlarging, my legs too, then my torso.

I am inside a building now. I look for a mirror, expecting to look like a tree-man, but I see something totally different: I am still human, my face is different, my clothing is asymmetrical, wearing red/grey robe on one side and a brown coat on the other. This is strange. I attempt looking at myself again, strongly expecting to look like a tree-man, but the result is very similar as before. I stop caring about it.

I am outside again, trees look very small below me, I eradicate some with my hands just to feel the power, I can feel the trunk and branches under my hands. Then I kick one very far away. Nice. I feel ready to fight.
I see a corridor now, a door to my left. I open it. It reveals a bedroom, my wife is in the bed; from here the subject becomes very different, not going to post details. Then dream fades.

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18-Dec-2016 - 3 ND - Horror circus - In the city - Skyrim + WILD - DHL clone fight

ND #1 - Horror circus 3AM
This ND has a deep horror theme, when I wake up I am quite unsettled by it, so I write it down, but try not to recall too much detail. I am successful in this selective erasing...

A building shaped like a castle houses a sort of circus. I free someone / something from the corner towers. I kill / main some evil people. At the back of the building, I use a giant balloon to go up, do something, then down again. There are fires around. I try to hide and escape from evil guys. Helping people reach the place, although I cannot meet them. I am successful in saving myself.
<JUMP>
I am half-looking-at-TV / half-remembering the scene of a dog who gets pushed through a path of raised stones, by some yellow moving / elevating rocks. I explain this to my son

ND #2 - In the city ~5AM ?
I am in an American city with C, looks like Chicago-ish. I am leading the way, although he knows the place better than me (FM?)
On the way I notice how the big buildings' shadows keep the place dark. Only in a spot, sunlight is passing through the space between some buildings. I look for the sun, but cannot find it (!!)
We reach our destination, a small square close to a big arch. I tell him I was sure I was somehow able to get there.

ND #3 - Skyrim ~6AM
I am half-inside / half-playing TES V - Skyrim. I am in a secret / Easter Egg dungeon. I know that the next room is an Oblivion (TES IV) citation. I find it, looks like a kitchen open on woods. A music starts, I remember it's from Oblivion (false - I think it comes from Dragon Trainer cartoon instead). I show it to my son. I reach the room, it's quite empty, made of bright wood. I observe the minute details of the furniture and remember how much time I spent there in Oblivion (I don't think that room exist in the game at all)

WILD - Skyrim, Become a dragon, Fight DHL Sensei clone 6:45 AM
I start from previous dreams. I become a dragon in Skyrim, gradually morphing, feel the spine changing shape and vertebres lenghtening. First I become a version with wings and no forearms and flap my arms/wings, then I become a winged four-legged version, cannot "feel" wings but fly well.
After some wandering around and dream stabilization, I recall the DHL clone fight task.

I reach a small city, covered in snow. To my left a small wooden granary. A newborn baby is there, it's cute, wearing just a camisole. While I am looking at it, it morphs into a black wolf and assaults me ! I don't want to kill it, remembering it's a baby. I use a "calm" spell, having a green aura around my hand, keep my hand on top of its head while not getting bitten. After some time, it stops attacking, then it returns to its child appearance.
A mad scientist talks from some speaker around that he's doing some tests, and that one worked well. I get angry at him.
I tell him I killed the Mad Scientist last time (actually false, I just stopped it), he answers the world is full of Mad Scientists. Hmmm, I suppose he's got a point there... He also tells me he's got some challenges for me.

I go to the right, the town continues that side. There as a snow-covered clearing. When I reach it, I fall down a narrow pit. I look up, I see the square of light getting small, look down and see the ground getting close. I hit the ground violently, but no pain arises.
When I get up I am in a small room, the walls lined with coffins / cages. A bear comes out one of those, I kill it with my sword. Then some walking dead (draugr in Skyrim), which I kill with sword and fire. Then other creatures attack me, I dispatch them easily.
<JUMP>
I want to fight the clone in a more "modern" environment, so I try summoning a modern city. I am partially successful, I am there, but it's kinda blocky / empty, but soon I find myself in the small snowy town.
Then the Mad Scientist unlashses its strongest weapon against me. He tells me he's chosen to clone DHL Sensei hero to kill me, his sword is indestructable and he can power himself at will. On top of that, he has made some improvements to it !

A guy in a suit runs with ultra-speed towards me, hits me like a truck, I drop on the ground. His suit is white and dark blue. When I get up, it uses his sword against me, I parry with my sword. He uses super-strength to push through my block and throws me on the ground again. I roll on the side, then use my sword to chop the lower part of his legs off. The leg and feet regrow at insane speed. Now I understand what the scientist meant by improvements. This is going to be tough !

I draw my black bow, but he's too fast and before I can shoot, he's on my with super-speed again.
I punch him hard and he staggers. I use some fire spells on him, charring his suit and face. He recovers from that very quickly, and is up in no time.
Need to change tactics: I open a door to the Oblivion realm, looks like a violet circle on the ground, and summon a Frost Atronach (an elemental). He sets his sword on fire and hits the Frost Atronach, melting its hands, the sword flames go off, the Atronach is destroyed.
I summon a black wolf, use my prokinesis to set it on fire and unleash it on the enemy.
The firey wolf fights hard with claws and teeth, but gets beaten hard by the enemy, I lose track of it.

The clone comes to me. Running at super-speed in a circle around me, he creates a dust tornado.
I aim my bow randomly at the dust in front of me, reasoning that since he's so fast I may hit him by chance, which happens but to small effect.

Then I summon a small wyvern close to me; it spreads a green venom cloud in the air, which mixes with the dust cloud.
Evidently this has an effect on the enemy, which slows down his speed, then stops.
I draw my bow, and start firing arrows at him. One, two, three, ten. I pin him to the ground, close to a rock wall.
For every arrow that he removes from his body, two more hit him.
I take few seconds to summon another Frost Atronach; the ice giant further slows him.
More volleys of arrows finally drain his energy; he's laying on the floor exhausted.

I hear the Mad Scientist mocking me; I will not be able to kill him because of his immense regeneration skills.
Again, he's got a point, but I get an idea.

Spoiler for Violence:

I push my hand through his chest and grab his heart. Then I feed it, still beating, to the black wolf, which devours it.

I win.

My next target is the (second) Mad Scientist himself. With the technology he's got, I am seriously worried for the people of the dream world.
I track his lab, but when I am inside this modern, hospital-looking building, the dream fades...

<JUMP>

WILD #2 - Short. I see three faces. I focus one, a white man with short black beard and a hint of Asian features. I deeply observe his face features, amazed by the stability.

Last night I had 7 lucids, the first I have no solid memory of, just a fragment. My first LD, all I remember was a white haired boy holding his hand up and everything burning. surprised that I can't remember it now as it seems to have been very memorable.

Lucid 2: I'm walking down a hallway and I enter a room. Everyone is sitting at a school desk and there is a tree in the centre of the room. Everyone is sitting around waiting for something, not sure what. Some male DC gets up and hits me over the head with a foldable chair, it does nothing and it simply bounces off. The DC looks confused and I say "this is my dream". I punch the DC 100 times in the least amount of time I could manage (around 9 seconds). I then fly and phase through the roof and explore space for a bit looking at different planets. I don't remember much after this but I do rember waking up. I successfully attempt a WBTB.

Lucid 3: I'm flying through a forest and I come across a rain forest. After exploring the forest, I lose active lucidity. I end up getting chased by a non human entity. After running I think to myself "this is a dream, why run when I can fly". I still don't really think about it and fly until I hit a large 1 floor mansion that looks like it was old Japanese architecture. I see two old reoccurring dream characters and I become fully lucid. We talk a bit about something and I explore the mansion with them checking how all the rooms changed. That's the last bit I remember before waking up.


***ToTM***
Lucid 4: I get water and try to go back to sleep. When I fall asleep, I see images of the house and the reoccurring dream characters from the last dream. After looking at this image for a while, I reach out my hand and try to touch it and the scene comes alive. The dream characters welcome me by saying "Welcome to another lucid dream!". It surprises me because I rarely ever get lucids from DCs telling me I'm lucid. I respond with "aren't there rules about telling me that" and they respond with "no, want to see something else we shouldn't be able to do?" And I said "sure". The female DC opened her pocket on her jacket and a paper came out and folded into the shape of a house. I was surprised as I haven't seen something like that before. The male DC said snap your hands and I did. The origami house burst into a blue flame. I asked why I did that and he responded "it's your task of the month, you just have one more basic but I'm not sure what it is". I was so shocked that I woke up. After waking up, I checked the forums to see what the missing ToTM was and saw that it was see what you can eat at a buffet. I will try to complete that one whenever i can.

Lucid 5: after falling asleep yet again, I find myself wandering through a hallway and I see in a room down the hall the kid I beat up in lucid 2. I see he's telling on me to a teacher and I think I'm in trouble. After going into the room, I focus on one child who said "I always wanted a pet rabbit". As he said that, the teacher drops 2 rabbits into the room and said here is your reward and punishment. The room starts to fill with water from an unseen source. I grab both rabbits and start to swim. The water over takes my head and I look up to see the water rising faster than I can swim. As I see a light shimmering from above, I think to myself "I could hold my breath to float faster, but that would wake me up". As soon as I think that, I become fully lucid and fly through the water and find myself in an Olympic sized pool. I fly out and drop the rabbits off at the side. I remember the task but get destructed by the basketball court in the side room. I decide to play a game against another team and I can't remember anything after that.


***ToTM***
Lucid 6: I find myself holding a long sword standing by a mall bathroom. I'm scanning the people who walk by looking for a friend but she isn't there. Everyone is looking at me and I'm not sure why. I see someone familiar but he isn't a friend. He is the white haired kid from lucid dream one, the one I don't remember well. I remembered it better in the dream and that's why I knew he wasn't a good person. After seeing him, I became lucid. I saw he carried a sword like mine, and asked him where he was going. He replied looking for a friend, just like you. He then requested to use my phone and I let him. I also knew that I should attempt the last ToTM this dream. After putting the phone to his ear, he said "they aren't picking up, they must be dead. Catch you later." He then walks away. At that, I hurry, sword in hand gliding through the mall to the food court. I go to a Chinese buffet restaurant and ask what I can eat. The lunch lady who was taking my order said "nothing for a dreamer without an identity". I look at my phone and see that the lock screen has been replaced by a blood red picture of a red butterfly with its wing fallen off. At this, I panic and have a false awakening. I walk downstairs and see my parents. I tell them that I had a lucid nightmare and they responded with do you think this nightmare will end? I say "oh shit" and fly through the ceiling as fast as possible. I crash through the moon and wake up for real this time. I get more water and go back to sleep.

Lucid 7: I'm walking through an amusement park. I take out my phone and see the picture of the red broken butterfly on it. I am fully lucid now. I see the kid with the white hair off in the distance making a call with someone else's phone. I take out my sword and half fly half teleport and attack him. He generates the sword he had and attacks back. At this, I tell him this is my dream therefor you follow my rules. I will the sword from his hands. He then said "You may control the mindless beings that walk this world but not the will of others". After he said that, I saw a flash of unrelated images while listening to sad music. After two minutes of listening to this, I woke up and it was 7:20.

That was my personal record for most lucids in one night. I'll see if I can do it again.

After being non lucid for a considerable amount of time I became lucid while spotting a family guy bag hanging from a pole outside a shop. We were actually there to christmas shop but I decided to change things and see if I could find a gift for Dawn as a dream task.It sounds easy but with the way settings and objects change it can actually be kind of challenging for me.As I was looking I saw a yellow bag that caught my eye but continued following the dc who was supposed to be my brother. Except he was wearing a black hood so I couldn't see his face anymore. The dc walked me into a mall where I took a look around.

As I was looking I saw a bunch of women picking out candy from a rack."Chocolate?"I thought picking up one with a huge elongated pole dispenser on it."Nope, too weird". I than put it back and kept looking until a women who felt familiar came to me and asked why I was going to spend money on a gift when I could just buy whatever snacks I wanted with it.

What she said made me rethink what I was doing but when I looked to the girls picking chocolates off the rack I thought it was valentines day and that I was supposed to give my guide chocolates like in Japanese anime. "No. I need to find the heart shape chocolate"I told her, convinced that it was something I must do. The women sighed than grabbed my hand."Alright,follow me" than walked me out of the mall and showed me the way into another store.We ended up in a small supermarket where an old man who owned the place was organizing food stuff.

The women went looking near the man while I checked the shelfs and decided to get peanuts for a snack. I than walked around for a bit till the women came up to me and said that they didn't have what I wanted. "No! We have to find it! Take me to a pharmacy instead!" I told her. She took my hands and showed me the way outside. As she did I thought about how long I had been in the dream and how great it was that i had been lucid for a while.But after I entered another shop with her I woke up.


(Pic is from an anime)

We are having technical difficulties today due to an ice front that has come in. I'll try tomorrow.

I try and take a box of a raving psychopathic man. This box, when opened, will destroy the world. I fail and run. I find my self in a dark room and a woman comes to me. She tries to help me, but I start spasming as the radiation from the box being opened IN THE FUTURE travels through time and touches me. She gives up, and leaves. Suddenly the light is turned on and thugs enter the room, and start eating at a table. I must hide. I hide in the toliet. It stinks terribly. The woman comes back and feeds me some salmon. Suddenly, ghe room starts shaking and all is destroyed.
I am thrown into a different world. It feels cold and not a 'rich' as the previous. It feels grey. I am being shown the contruction of a library. I feel depressed.

Last night bed 9:30pm - 3:30am

Remembered 3 dreams from last night

DR 1:
This one was a bit abstract. But I was above some water with deep sandy sides, like a quarry filled with water. I was bout to get into my spaceship, but first I had to do something. I threw some small shining ball made of energy down, it was suppose to do something spectacular. Someone with me said it's doing it, but I didn't really see it.

DR2:
Somebody, maybe aliens are releasing these tiny tiny bugs. They are suppose to come ot of the vents soon.

DR3:
I'm in a store and the sales person brought some shirts for me to try. I tell my mom, that they are all male and looks like she just grabbed the first ones she saw on the rack. I went and picked some that looked better.

First RC was triggered by my dream partner saying "This is weird, it's like a movie" about the way another dream character was acting. I got so excited when it worked that my whole dream body began to tingle intensely. Things began to gray and I attempted to stabilize by staring at my hands, they were grayed out and hard to see. The funny thing is, is that I thought my waking life's hands were doing it alongside my dream body hands- there was some lapse in logic here. Maybe it's because it felt so real? When I woke up though, to my surprise, my hands were crossed and folded and stuffed in the sheets and I realized that I couldn't have just been holding them in front of my waking life face.

During my second successful LD, I stabilized and then decided to keep taking notes (which is what I was doing before i did a RC) so as not to disturb or excite my mind too much- I didn't want to lose this one again.... Then I couldn't help myself and decided to fly . I floated upwards and soon enough, everything grayed out. Then I had a semi false awakening type-experience and told dream characters I just had a lucid dream! What I mean by "semi false awakening type-experience" is that after the dream world grayed out when I was flying, the same setting came back but I was on the ground and when I was running around telling people I LD'd I wasn't fully lucid anymore and I think that my dream brain thought I was awake? I'm not sure!
I have this impression that dreams are supposed to feel as vivid and sensory as waking life. But when I awoke from my LD's, upon remembering them, they felt distinctly different than real life in that they did not feel as vivid, at all. I wonder, and maybe y'all will have insight to this as well, if it was because of my over-excitement and the resulting graying-out? I'm not sure what to think. Maybe I'm just prone to fuzzy dreams? Is that a thing? I hope not!

A couple random dreams before my WBTB, including me playing a LEGO version of Skyrim. During my WBTB, I decided to read Hyu’s DJ again (for like the 4th time) for lucid inspiration (specifically this entry).

I fall back asleep, and find myself in a quaint little neighborhood, going from house to house playing Christmas carols on a flute. One of the houses I enter has an entire wall that’s just a screened-in patio. There’s a ton of plants growing through the ground inside, and a lot of the panels on the walls have fallen or broken. I suddenly realize that I was just going to sleep, which makes me become lucid. I prepare to make a portal through the floor to teleport, but as I’m deciding where to go to, everything goes black. However, the dream still feels incredibly stable, so I try to focus on making something else appear. Before I can do that though, Vi casually walks into my view. I’m somewhat surprised, as it’s been quite a while since I’ve seen her. Before I can say anything, some lights behind her start to turn on, and I can finally see where I am.

I’m in a large white room - actually, I’d hesitate to call it a room. There’s no walls, the white-ness just extends on forever in all directions. In the middle are a ton of small, white, floating platforms, but other than that there’s nothing on the “ground”. In fact, I think for a moment what exactly I’m standing on, but I try not to dwell on that fact so I don’t end up falling through whatever it is. I turn back to Vi, and beside her is a humanoid robot, who explains that this is a futuristic dream control and dream fighting training complex. I get incredibly excited - like seriously, I’m freaking out more than those families on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition when they first see their new house. I start asking if I can make my own weapon (thinking something like Hyu’s katana), but Vi insists that I start with something a little more simple.

Following that is a montage of me doing various training. First is agility, where I have to cross the floating platforms quickly while staying light on my feet, since some of the platforms won’t support my full weight. At one point, I fall through the platform and plummet into the abyss. After I reappear on the platforms, a hologram version of me shows a “replay” of my failure so I can learn what I did wrong. After that, I’m back on the platforms slashing a holographic sword at holographic enemies. After the training is over, I’m back in a side room of the complex, with a tablet that shows my progress report. There’s only two stats listed on it:

Confidence: 38%
Fart Noises Made: 8

I see Vi and shove my tablet in her face, rubbing in my (admittedly mediocre) score. “Ha, beat that!”
“Well, I don’t think anyone could beat that fart score even if they tried.”

I wake up and write down my dream before lying down again. I start to have WILD transitions, but my dad barges in and wakes me up to ask me a stupid question about his phone. I get up from my bed (which is now in the living room) to help him, and then quickly lie back down. I quickly get the intense vibrations again, and suddenly my bed is back in my room. I manage to roll out of my bed, but I can’t move my limbs. However, I’m still able to move around the room by making myself float around in a luge position. In the middle of the room are a few large floating star-shaped rings, and as I fly through them, I regain control of my limbs. I get through all of them before landing on my now-movable feet. I’m still in my bedroom, but I can’t take my usual exit through the window, since the window isn’t there. There’s another window right beside the bedroom door, but it’s small and kinda high up. I try to jump through it, but my butt gets stuck. I can still look out though, and I see a whole rooftop terrace with tables and chairs. I go back inside and try to think of how to get out there. Wait… shouldn’t there just be a door? I shut my previously wide-open bedroom door to find another white door behind it leading to the terrace.

I open it and walk through to see that there’s an entire restaurant seating area out here, complete with giant umbrellas over the tables and christmas lights for some nice mood lighting. However, the place looks fairly rundown, as next to the door are a ton of spider webs and wasp nests. I really want to explore it, but I’m afraid to go out because of all the bugs.

“It’s okay, this is a dream. You are lucid. Nothing can hurt you in the dream.”
“...unless the dream makes a bug that can hurt you.”
“..........Why did I say that?...”

Immediately, a red bug crawls up my back, with the body shape and legs of a spider but the body thickness and large pincers of a beetle. It gets right in the middle of my back before taking a big bite of my skin. It stings quite a bit at first, but that doesn’t compare at all to the extreme burning that comes after that. I try to reach back to kill the bug, but it’s just out of reach. Meanwhile, it keeps biting, each time getting more and more painful. I honestly think about trying to wake up, since the pain is too unbearable. Instead, I attempt to channel my rage into making flames come off my back to burn the little f***er. It takes a couple tries, but I eventually generate enough heat to make it stop biting. During the lull in pain, I finally manage to reach back and grab it, smashing its head between my fingers. I turn to see two more black bugs on the railing, and I get ready to smash them.

“Woah woah woah! Listen man, we’re real sorry about Roger, but we don’t want to hurt you. We’re just looking for some booty.”
“Yeah, some booty! Specifically Greek booty.”

I grab one of the umbrellas off the table and jump up on the railing beside them. Looking down, I see this terrace is about 30 floors up. I open up the umbrella, turn back to the bugs, and in an epic movie voice, I say…

“Do I look Greek to you?”

I dive off the edge, using the umbrella to glide my way down before waking up.