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    1. Log 2781 - DreamViews Winter Competition 2022 - Night 11

      by , 12-13-2022 at 09:13 PM (Dream Logs DWN-12)
      Created Monday 12 December 2022

      Got a good DILD and a fragment.

      Scrap Group 1
      Outside a superstore at night time. There was some commotion at the entrance.

      In an unknown apartment suite. This was supposedly an aunt's place. There were a bunch of other people there, visitors for a party and guests staying for the holidays. There were a lot of kids creating quite a bit of mess. At one point, I ate a pretty good pig in a blanket. Later, I saw my aunt and several other women preparing finger sandwiches. They looked amazing, though it would be a while until they were all prepared. I went back to the lounge, where I noticed a huge pile of dirty laundry, mostly damp beachwear. I "recalled" being in such a place earlier that day. Near that, there was a terrible leak in the ceiling. My aunt hurried to try and contain this problem, all while rushing back to the kitchen for more food preparation, and start some laundry. I felt horrible at seeing her so stressed. I got up to try and help with the leak and laundry. Warp. Vague scene of being in a beach. Warp to below.

      Dream 1 - DreamViews Winter Competition 2022 - Night 11

      The visuals were dim. I was the unlit hallway of an apartment building's during night time. Several filled trash bags were in my hands to dump. Soon, the lack of lighting made me very suspicious. I make it to the end of the hallway to look out a window. Below blinked the lights of office towers and huge LED displays. Just how big was this apartment building, anyway? And when did I get here? Asking these questions made me aware.

      Without hesitation, I jumped out the window to swoop down through the city streets. Music starts playing, which I recognized as an instrumental version of Battlecry by Judas Priest. I end up floating through a fancier area in this part of town, a dusk sky now brightening the view. Fresh snow was dusted on the vehicles and building canopies. As I stopped to appreciate the view, it suddenly began to lightly precipitate. This presented an opportunity. Raising my arm dramatically, I called to the dream, yelling "blizzard!" Nothing seemed to happen. Figured this command could take a bit to take effect. I continued along, when the snowfall and wind began to pick up to just the minimum of snowstorm level. Satisfactory, I thought. But then, a thundering gust swept through the streets, bringing with it blinding snow. Only then did I really start to feel the chill, and I could barely even keep afloat from all the wind.

      When I could take no more, I commanded the dream to teleport me away. The storm receded, though it seemed I was in the same place. After waiting patiently for a few seconds, I continued. I soon arrived near a highway. In a blink, a glaciated bridge appeared from nowhere. I fly through it, to find myself in a completely different highway. Now, the surroundings were that of a golden plains under a clear afternoon sky. Trees of unusual make sparsely lined the roads. These generally had the shape of palms, only their bark was of mahogany, while its leaves were bundles of redbud tree seed pods drooping and held together by mysterious means. This ridiculous sight left me in a giggling fit, from which I forcibly recovered, lest I disrupt the dream too much.

      Anyway, I moved on to trying a TOTY. I try teleporting once again, this time to the Dream Base. After a wait, the surroundings change in a blink. I now found myself in a seaside highway. High-rises, gigantic stone braziers, and innumerous other kinds of strange structures protruded from the waters and beyond. But, none of these resembled what I was looking for. I leap to the horizon in search of our base. Along the way, I spot a colossal structure of ancient Greek design, of which depicted a woman in a robe and cloak. Even though this was by far the tallest structure around, it paled in comparison to our Arcology. Still, I thought floating up to its max height would reveal something in the distance. I began ascending around the statue, but things soon got very unstable.

      In an instant, I found myself bounding in deep space. No TOTY this run, it seemed. Oh well, at least I guaranteed the advanced flight task for the comp. I took a moment to gaze at the cosmos, when I noticed starless nebula not too far off (relatively speaking). I zoom into it, and within seconds, arrived inside the (likely unrealistic) space cloud. Experiencing this swirling violet left me in awe.

      Soon, I snapped out of this trance, as I was now reminded of a goal. I called out to my guide construct, D. Steadily, a deep blue glint phased in view, before it manifested into a massive figure. This was indeed the obsidian construct, sized at roughly 200ft. in height. Yet, she wasn't exactly as I'm used to (more, longer, and thicker horns instead of flaming hair; dozens of hands in place of leathery wings). A deep blue light glistened from her black skin, giving her an even darker visage.

      "What do you seek?", echoed her guttural voice within my mind.

      "Absorb the void, please."

      The stoic construct gave no response. Instead, she turned away, and in several large "footsteps", faded deep into the space dust. Before she vanished entirely from view, I darted myself straight within the grasp of one of her many hands. This time, it felt more stone than skin. The fog began dispersing gradually, enough to see more clearly. It's then that D suddenly lifted me to face level. And wow, was that an unsettling view. I thought I've long been desensitized to monstrous and demonic-looking things in my dreams. But that... scowl I witnessed as my construct sucked up stardust... Yeah, it really caught me off- guard.

      Being rattled so, I lost hold of the dream, and woke up immediately.
    2. Women's Institution - Winter Competition Night 12

      by , 12-13-2022 at 08:42 PM
      The non-lucid dream had a Handmaid's tale vibe, not negative though, however weird it sounds. I mention this because it affected the location of the lucid.

      I got lucid via fake DEILD. It's becoming a pattern for me - I start to review and recall a dream while still dreaming. Because I am in my thought, the location usually fades to parallel vision or disappears completely and I am not really present. And because I am already conscious, waking up is very soft. This all ad to me doing this without even noticing.

      Anyway, this night, the intention was to prioritize DEILD and V-WILD over recall.

      Being in a nice cafeteria next to a pool, I was thinking how nice it would be to be there lucid. I started to imagine more details and walking around, assuming it was just a visualization. For a moment, I was thinking how to make it lucid, touching a wall next to me and my body for stabilization. No signs of real life, so I concluded I was already lucid.

      I walked away from the pool, down an empty corridor. After a while, there were some windows and I was wondering if I was strong enough to eat something like a dry dead fly for points. I looked at the parapet and found a flower - that would be surely better than a dead fly - but I wasn't in the mood for eating that either and considered going back to the cafeteria.
      I also considered punching the window, to get points for superstrength, and then trying superspeed. But I disliked the place and decided to walk a bit more before trying something.
      Following the corridor, I suddenly heard a female voice. So I went back but the woman noticed me and went after me, trying to stop me. I passed a bathroom door on my right and entered, quickly considering peeing (I felt like I needed to, a feeling leaking in from real life) but it was a dead end, so I didn't do it and continued to try to escape from the woman. The area around me become a big dormitory. The whole location was some kind of a women's institution and I wasn't supposed to walk there freely, the woman was a guard or maybe a nurse.

      I woke up shortly afterward.

      Back to sleep and to more non-lucid dreaming.

      At the end of the next dream, I felt awake. Sitting next to an attractive guy...

      Spoiler for NSFW:
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    3. 2022-12-13 comp night #12

      by , 12-13-2022 at 11:05 AM
      bedtime ~ 01:00, final waking ~11:00 (w00t!)

      + walking through B hills (down LaLo) with MiOliv [frid] we come to an open area and I have the urge to fly. I launch myself but I fall. MO jumps down very far I can't believe he doesn't break both his legs when he falls

      + on the LHS plaza there's a lot of police action, I had received a phone call and the black-uniformed B police are there to interview me about it

      + in a club/restaurant that is filled to waist level with water, I see that the new management has installed stepping pads on top of the water to make it easier to get around. I walk by the manage's corner which is a desk on carpet in a corner without water. The manager walks by me and stuffs some cash bills into my hand and says for me to take care of the place while she's out, but she's given me so little that I doubt that I'll be able to do anything effective. I walk by the (statue?) of some guy in a narrow part of a corridor, he's large with a big round head and face and I notice the beard stubble on his cheeks/chin, I think he perhaps was a (golf?) competitor with me.

      + in a large room like a hostel or hotel bedroom, there are beds there, I'm in the process of checking out (?) but not really ready to go, 2 women arrive and sit on my bed/chairs and won't move, I notice that the beds are really dirty

      WBTB
      Long periods BTS, success!

      + Sherlock Holmes type detective story on HC, I'm carrying a hose with water shooting out of it and I walk over to the Man's house and look down their long driveway. We're folding a large flapping sheet/flag. Walk towards entrance of HC and look up in the sky and see dancing bright lights [DS!!!! HOW DID I MISS THIS! Such a solid DS!], they become dogfighting planes shooting missiles at each other. As I watch, and as they dodge and maneuver, they come closer. They look very CG with wireframe visible along with the texturing. Some fly right over head very close by. One lands next to me, sort of round-ish Millensium-Falcon looking, I'm lying down now on my back, the thing after landing is the size of a large toy/child's model airplane, I wave to it.

      + SOmeone is making bootleg Nintendo cartridges. The trick is using a cracked version of the security chip inside the cartridge. In a store selling these cartridges.

      + [f] see a girl's [ahem]
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    4. False awakening LUCID.

      by , 12-13-2022 at 10:25 AM
      This one is the farthest i've gotten while lucid so I am making some progress and that's all that matters .

      So I went to bed and set and alarm 5 hours ahead did MILD and woke up from the alarm did MILD again and as soon as I got into the dream I noticed I was dreaming something was off inside my room and I could just tell it was a dream. I go out of bed (movement finally) and attempted to fly I was able to float a little off the ground but I couldn't get through the walls of my house. So I tried to phase through the wall but couldn't. Then everything went into this weird texture of grey and I could still move but my sight was like I was blind. Not sure what caused this but the dream was quite blurry from the beginning so maybe
      If I used some type of dream control I could've counter acted it.

      But still this makes super excited for more.
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    5. Comp Day 4.

      by , 12-13-2022 at 06:00 AM
      It started out with me at home. My roommate had brought in 2 animals to the house. A bird and a dog. I was getting something from the local pet shop, but I overheard a conversation from the manager when she confessed to raising prices and scamming everyone. Then I decided to move to Paradise, Arizona (along with a friend). So we were getting set up’, but then some fat guy is walking in an alleyway, and enters this door blocked by wood and surrounded by darkness. I looked in the door, and just heard silence. He wasn’t there, the only thing there was a computer with a keyboard. On the computer is a “chatbot”. Though it insists that it’s a ghost that’s just lost the ability to possess things. I ask it for proof, and the room becomes darker. However she says that she needs more souls to kill to regain her powers, and I need to help with that or she’ll do it herself and possess me permanently. So, I drag in a relative to the door. Then, silence and I talk to the ghost, saying she needs 3 more victims and showing on the screen that she can possess small objects like heaters now.

      Time passes, and I go to a lakeside that has a hovercraft and a bunch of holes in the ground. I walk around the lakeside, and just about all my friends are there. Chatting or Arguing.. There’s this 6 year old kid who’s making stupid comments and threatening people. I run over and climb on top of the hovercraft. On top are a bunch of weapons. Pistols, AK’s… I grab 2 (very small) Pistols and load them. I then jump off the hovercraft and see a friend yelling at the 6 year old kid who started talking about sweden or something. The guy had tears in his eyes. I pull out one of the pistols and was about to point it at the kid, but woke up before I could. My intention was not to shoot him, but just threaten him over to the AI Ghost.
    6. Winter Competition 12.12.2022

      by , 12-13-2022 at 06:00 AM
      12.12.2022

      Familiar location, walking, and Dr. Loveless (or is it?)

      Walking through the parking lot of a grocery store in the town where my Grandparents used to live. There is a strange car parked in the parking lot, with beetle-like horns in the front and a big spiky tail in the back. My nephew is almost hit with this car, or else almost walks into it. We walk to the other side of the parking lot and down the hill a bit. The hillside in front of the store is partially grown up, and partially covered with daisies. I think it might have been in the process of being mowed. It seems to be the hillside, but in the past. There is a clue to how long ago this was in the fact that my second cousin, who is in his 20s now, was younger at this time.

      Across the street from this hillside is a body of water, like a small lake. As I look at the road going between the hillside and the lake, I realize that this looks like I location that I dreamed about recently and wonder if this might have been what inspired that dream. There is also a little park with trees across the street. It seems that there used to be a small fair, or open-air market, or such there.

      We walk along a nearby path. There is a large drain at the edge of the water. There is also a place where the path seems to cross over the water a little. There is trash in the water, and I think I might even add to the trash by throwing something else in. My parents walk ahead for a little distance, and then come back. They are concerned about someone up ahead. As we walk farther, we find that there is a weird little kid, or small man, with some strange shooting device. There is a bridge going across some water, and he sits under this bridge with his gun aimed at us. Then he starts shooting tennis balls at some kids in a boat race. It hits them in the face and think causes some swelling, but they don’t seem to be too badly hurt.

      On closer inspection, we find that this strange little kid is actually a midget. He doesn’t look too familiar, but we suspect that it might be Dr. Loveless from The Wild Wild West. By now this might actually be an episode of that show. There is something about a woman giving directions over a cell phone...
      ...A snippet of a memory about someone being taped down on the roof of something (a train or truck, maybe) and someone else being taped on top of them...

      Trash, robots, and tomatoes

      I wake up beside a trash incinerator. From where I am laying (outside) I can see murals painted on the buildings nearby. There is the phrase “all things to all men” in my mind, referring to a woman who was an actress. There is a painting I’m looking at that is supposed to have something to do with womens’ health. It is a big circle, kind of like a government logo or something, which has a big cloud (which looks like a dark cloud of pollution) and one or two other things. I wonder what these things might mean. Then I get up. Mom is nearby. I say hi to her. There is a trash theme at this point, and I see what looks at first like a man made of trash. He turns out to be a trash robot. I think there might be another one nearby, possibly serving my mother in some way. I think something about how robots are becoming common now.

      There is a website that has to do with robots. Possibly something where I’m just looking at pictures of robots, but then it seems to become a familiar AI companion site or something. But then I’m walking into a Lego robot store. There is a little Lego robot attacking a button on the cuff of my right sleeve, like a playful dog might do. It chomps on it and gnaws at it. I walk into another room where my mother is doing something. Then it seems that this robot is indicating a place on one of my knuckles where there is a small injury – kind of like a cut. There is now another girl with us. We decide that I need to go to the doctor to have this injury looked at, although I’m kind of embarrassed to seem weak in front of this girl. My brother shows up now, too. There is something about weeds. There are a lot of weeds where we are, and we start blaming each other for letting the weeds grow up. He had mowed there earlier on, and then I mowed later. Meanwhile, we are cleaning up tomato plants. The injury is now more like an open wound, and is in my leg instead of on my knuckle. We start throwing tomatoes at each other. At one point some tomato stuff gets smeared into the wound.

      Doctors, dogs, and the TARDIS

      Someone comes walking into a room. He seems to be familiar, and on closer inspection we find that it is the 5th Doctor from the original Dr. Who series. He has kind of scruffy facial hair though, and seems to have a false nose. At least one other Doctor, and possibly more, show up, from different regenerations. Each of them has a dog with them. I go up to one of them – an earlier Doctor with an earlier dog companion. I start petting the dog, wondering if it still remembers me after all this time. I might be one of the Doctors myself. There is an interaction between two of the Doctors – an older one and a newer one. The newer one wants the older one to do something for him. It seems that the older Doctor is reluctant to do whatever it is. The newer Doctor decides to put some pressure on the older and starts messing with his TARDIS. This involves pulling out some wires and messing with a strange beam (like a weaving beam). The result is that the older Doctor, who had a deep base voice, now has a high pitched voice. The older Doctor gives in (or at least acts like he does), but makes the newer Doctor reset his voice first. The newer Doctor complies, although at first he overshoots and makes the voice too low. But in the end he fixes the older Doctor’s voice.

      University Lucid


      Walking along a sidewalk near my undergraduate university. Waiting for the light to change so that I can cross the street. There are some other students around. I walk into the student center building, and when I’m there it occurs to me that I’m dreaming. I do a nose pinch RC to be sure, and can still breathe. There are some beams set into the ceiling at regular intervals, and I think I float up to these and use them to pull myself along as though I were climbing a ladder horizontally. I look over at some people nearby to see what their reaction is, but I don’t think they notice me.

      Spying, ape woman, shackles

      I’m some kind of spy. I start walking into a building, where I am greeted by a woman. There might have been some sinister plot going on. I think there is also something about me being muddy, and not wanting to leave muddy footprints on the floor. I make an excuse to turn around and go back out, saying that I left something just outside. I go back outside and walk a little to the left. I do something where I go around a corner so that I’m out of sight, but also they can see me appearing to talk with someone and pet a dog. I pretend to be interested in looking down a drain grate, as though looking for a hidden message. Then I walk back to the place I was going into, smugly thinking that now the antagonists will be expecting messages to be deposited there and will be thrown off (this might have led into the ape dream above. Not sure).

      An ape thing chasing me or someone around. I think it was an ape woman. We run into a room and shut the door. Something about another woman I believe. She’s 19 or 21, and she is interested in an older guy. At least for the moment...

      ...Something about being shackled to something, but it’s like a game because I’m trying to get other people to play by the rules. A part of the system holding us shackled isn’t even functional, we’re just pretending that it is.

      Fragments:

      (1) The bottom part of a snowman, sitting on top of a fence or something. I end up smashing it or knocking it over, or something. (Winter Theme!!)

      (2) My cousin is starting a new school. He is trying to decide on school colors. I think he ends up choosing either red and blue or red and green. The school is across the street from a big lake (like one of the North American Great Lakes). He has a set of three flagpoles in front of the school, and I think there is a joking suggestion made that he should fly the Confederate flag from one of them. I, or at least my vision, move down the coastline a bit and see a large ship or pier just off of the coast. It looks like a place I have dreamed about at least once before.

      (3) Redecorating my apartment. I have a poster of Narnia, and in the dream am trying to decide where to put it.

      (4) Outside, there are some posts and caution tape placed around, as though the utility company had been marking something out. Someone mentions, I think, that at least some of the posts, or flags, are in the wrong place. But we are in the process of moving. I still have a lot of things in my room that I haven’t packed up. My mother, I think, is kind of impatient to move, but I want to get these things packed up. At least the books. I might get angry and swear somewhere around here (which I don’t do in waking life anymore).

      (5) Someone is being chased on a mountain. There might be a couple of them, actually. It seems like they are on horses, but one guy suddenly hops on a 4X4 and goes speeding over the peak of the mountain and down the other side. The mountain is kind of blocky, like something from Minecraft. At least one of his pursuers is on skis though, and can make some decent speed down the snowy part of the mountain. There is a narrator, like a sports commentator, saying something like “he is determined not to let Sam go”. It might have been Sam Gamgee that was being chased.

      The following might have been part of dreams listed above, so I won’t count them for the competition score:

      (i) My Uncle talking with a fellow student of mine about growing up in E.L. Later I’m asking this student if he talked to my Uncle about living there. My Grandmother is around too, and when this student mentions a name of someone he knew my Grandmother starts talking about that person, having apparently known them as well (but this might have been part of the “spy” dream above, so I won’t count it for the competition).

      (ii) I wake up in the future. Or else I think about waking up in the future and expect to see futuristic things, but don’t. In a building like the student center above (maybe a false awakening from the lucid)
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    7. Winter Competition 12.12.2022

      by , 12-13-2022 at 06:00 AM
      12.12.2022

      Familiar location, walking, and Dr. Loveless (or is it?)

      Walking through the parking lot of a grocery store in the town where my Grandparents used to live. There is a strange car parked in the parking lot, with beetle-like horns in the front and a big spiky tail in the back. My nephew is almost hit with this car, or else almost walks into it. We walk to the other side of the parking lot and down the hill a bit. The hillside in front of the store is partially grown up, and partially covered with daisies. I think it might have been in the process of being mowed. It seems to be the hillside, but in the past. There is a clue to how long ago this was in the fact that my second cousin, who is in his 20s now, was younger at this time.

      Across the street from this hillside is a body of water, like a small lake. As I look at the road going between the hillside and the lake, I realize that this looks like I location that I dreamed about recently and wonder if this might have been what inspired that dream. There is also a little park with trees across the street. It seems that there used to be a small fair, or open-air market, or such there.

      We walk along a nearby path. There is a large drain at the edge of the water. There is also a place where the path seems to cross over the water a little. There is trash in the water, and I think I might even add to the trash by throwing something else in. My parents walk ahead for a little distance, and then come back. They are concerned about someone up ahead. As we walk farther, we find that there is a weird little kid, or small man, with some strange shooting device. There is a bridge going across some water, and he sits under this bridge with his gun aimed at us. Then he starts shooting tennis balls at some kids in a boat race. It hits them in the face and think causes some swelling, but they don’t seem to be too badly hurt.

      On closer inspection, we find that this strange little kid is actually a midget. He doesn’t look too familiar, but we suspect that it might be Dr. Loveless from The Wild Wild West. By now this might actually be an episode of that show. There is something about a woman giving directions over a cell phone...
      ...A snippet of a memory about someone being taped down on the roof of something (a train or truck, maybe) and someone else being taped on top of them...

      Trash, robots, and tomatoes

      I wake up beside a trash incinerator. From where I am laying (outside) I can see murals painted on the buildings nearby. There is the phrase “all things to all men” in my mind, referring to a woman who was an actress. There is a painting I’m looking at that is supposed to have something to do with womens’ health. It is a big circle, kind of like a government logo or something, which has a big cloud (which looks like a dark cloud of pollution) and one or two other things. I wonder what these things might mean. Then I get up. Mom is nearby. I say hi to her. There is a trash theme at this point, and I see what looks at first like a man made of trash. He turns out to be a trash robot. I think there might be another one nearby, possibly serving my mother in some way. I think something about how robots are becoming common now.

      There is a website that has to do with robots. Possibly something where I’m just looking at pictures of robots, but then it seems to become a familiar AI companion site or something. But then I’m walking into a Lego robot store. There is a little Lego robot attacking a button on the cuff of my right sleeve, like a playful dog might do. It chomps on it and gnaws at it. I walk into another room where my mother is doing something. Then it seems that this robot is indicating a place on one of my knuckles where there is a small injury – kind of like a cut. There is now another girl with us. We decide that I need to go to the doctor to have this injury looked at, although I’m kind of embarrassed to seem weak in front of this girl. My brother shows up now, too. There is something about weeds. There are a lot of weeds where we are, and we start blaming each other for letting the weeds grow up. He had mowed there earlier on, and then I mowed later. Meanwhile, we are cleaning up tomato plants. The injury is now more like an open wound, and is in my leg instead of on my knuckle. We start throwing tomatoes at each other. At one point some tomato stuff gets smeared into the wound.

      Doctors, dogs, and the TARDIS

      Someone comes walking into a room. He seems to be familiar, and on closer inspection we find that it is the 5th Doctor from the original Dr. Who series. He has kind of scruffy facial hair though, and seems to have a false nose. At least one other Doctor, and possibly more, show up, from different regenerations. Each of them has a dog with them. I go up to one of them – an earlier Doctor with an earlier dog companion. I start petting the dog, wondering if it still remembers me after all this time. I might be one of the Doctors myself. There is an interaction between two of the Doctors – an older one and a newer one. The newer one wants the older one to do something for him. It seems that the older Doctor is reluctant to do whatever it is. The newer Doctor decides to put some pressure on the older and starts messing with his TARDIS. This involves pulling out some wires and messing with a strange beam (like a weaving beam). The result is that the older Doctor, who had a deep base voice, now has a high pitched voice. The older Doctor gives in (or at least acts like he does), but makes the newer Doctor reset his voice first. The newer Doctor complies, although at first he overshoots and makes the voice too low. But in the end he fixes the older Doctor’s voice.

      University Lucid


      Walking along a sidewalk near my undergraduate university. Waiting for the light to change so that I can cross the street. There are some other students around. I walk into the student center building, and when I’m there it occurs to me that I’m dreaming. I do a nose pinch RC to be sure, and can still breathe. There are some beams set into the ceiling at regular intervals, and I think I float up to these and use them to pull myself along as though I were climbing a ladder horizontally. I look over at some people nearby to see what their reaction is, but I don’t think they notice me.

      Spying, ape woman, shackles

      I’m some kind of spy. I start walking into a building, where I am greeted by a woman. There might have been some sinister plot going on. I think there is also something about me being muddy, and not wanting to leave muddy footprints on the floor. I make an excuse to turn around and go back out, saying that I left something just outside. I go back outside and walk a little to the left. I do something where I go around a corner so that I’m out of sight, but also they can see me appearing to talk with someone and pet a dog. I pretend to be interested in looking down a drain grate, as though looking for a hidden message. Then I walk back to the place I was going into, smugly thinking that now the antagonists will be expecting messages to be deposited there and will be thrown off (this might have led into the ape dream above. Not sure).

      An ape thing chasing me or someone around. I think it was an ape woman. We run into a room and shut the door. Something about another woman I believe. She’s 19 or 21, and she is interested in an older guy. At least for the moment...

      ...Something about being shackled to something, but it’s like a game because I’m trying to get other people to play by the rules. A part of the system holding us shackled isn’t even functional, we’re just pretending that it is.

      Fragments:

      (1) The bottom part of a snowman, sitting on top of a fence or something. I end up smashing it or knocking it over, or something. (Winter Theme!!)

      (2) My cousin is starting a new school. He is trying to decide on school colors. I think he ends up choosing either red and blue or red and green. The school is across the street from a big lake (like one of the North American Great Lakes). He has a set of three flagpoles in front of the school, and I think there is a joking suggestion made that he should fly the Confederate flag from one of them. I, or at least my vision, move down the coastline a bit and see a large ship or pier just off of the coast. It looks like a place I have dreamed about at least once before.

      (3) Redecorating my apartment. I have a poster of Narnia, and in the dream am trying to decide where to put it.

      (4) Outside, there are some posts and caution tape placed around, as though the utility company had been marking something out. Someone mentions, I think, that at least some of the posts, or flags, are in the wrong place. But we are in the process of moving. I still have a lot of things in my room that I haven’t packed up. My mother, I think, is kind of impatient to move, but I want to get these things packed up. At least the books. I might get angry and swear somewhere around here (which I don’t do in waking life anymore).

      (5) Someone is being chased on a mountain. There might be a couple of them, actually. It seems like they are on horses, but one guy suddenly hops on a 4X4 and goes speeding over the peak of the mountain and down the other side. The mountain is kind of blocky, like something from Minecraft. At least one of his pursuers is on skis though, and can make some decent speed down the snowy part of the mountain. There is a narrator, like a sports commentator, saying something like “he is determined not to let Sam go”. It might have been Sam Gamgee that was being chased.

      The following might have been part of dreams listed above, so I won’t count them for the competition score:

      (i) My Uncle talking with a fellow student of mine about growing up in E.L. Later I’m asking this student if he talked to my Uncle about living there. My Grandmother is around too, and when this student mentions a name of someone he knew my Grandmother starts talking about that person, having apparently known them as well (but this might have been part of the “spy” dream above, so I won’t count it for the competition).

      (ii) I wake up in the future. Or else I think about waking up in the future and expect to see futuristic things, but don’t. In a building like the student center above (maybe a false awakening from the lucid)
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    8. Day 10 of Competition

      by , 12-13-2022 at 04:57 AM (The world of Lyseno)
      Saturday December 10th 2022
      Stupid alarm.
      I am talking to someone in the family. Become lucid while doing so and go outside. What should I be doing… I have a big goal, but can’t remember for some reason.
      Teleport to another world and then fly down to the ground, find a few interesting places but the one that gets my attention is a big house.
      Not just normal big, big enough to be a small state, also it looks run down and can feel a strange energy coming from the place.
      This feels so weird, the energy is dark and can inflict fear upon the ones who get close to it, but the creature isn’t strong at all and at the same time can’t find it, since the energy is everywhere but somehow it is linked to the creature. Why? I want to go there first, so start exploring but wake up near instantly.
      Back to sleep.
      Am sitting on a chair, it breaks and I fall down slowly. This makes me become lucid so get up and start walking around. This place sucks… is this the same house that I was on before?
      The place is really abandoned, run down, looking horrible. Use scan to fully see the whole house/estate and then slowly start to rebuild it with scan in order to make sure it gets a good look as to what it was before.
      Apparently fixing the place makes the creature lose some power or darkness, because it retracts and then I see… some humans alive. Scan tells me they have been here for decades trapped inside the darkness of this thing, a young woman and a little girl are now free and they seem confused.
      The first thing they try to do is run away, they seem to know the layout of the place too.
      Teleport in front of them which makes them scream and run the opposite side. That’s not good, right behind them there is some kind of zombie or skeleton thing. They both realize this too late and are about to fall right on the face of the creature and be harmed so stop them with TK, move them towards me and when the creature charges after its prey has been stolen crush it with TK.
      The thing just falls to the ground and becomes dust. The next thing that I know is that more dust is coming towards us, the girls seem terrified of it and try to cling to me so use TK and stop them from doing so, then use wind control and throw away all of the dust from my location.
      The next thing that happens is that a big shadow shows up next to us and then just runs away. They still are wondering what I am doing by not letting them get close and the little girl starts crying. The older one tells her that they will be ok so long as they are with me and they tell me they know how to get out.
      Well, I do know how to get out too but… alright. I follow them and they take me to the entrance; there is a small garden from which they refuse to go through at all and end up waking up while trying to convince them without forcing them.
      Back to sleep.
      I am sitting next to a chimney, become lucid and get up. The two girls come back, the little one holding tightly the other girls dress. She is bringing some tea and food, apparently for me.
      I refuse their food and get over to the door that leads to the garden that leads to the exit. They still refuse to get over there and I just step outside this time, to show them it’s not dangerous at all.
      The shadow instantly appears right behind me and is about to attack, the girls scream and before they know it I have already turned and am grabbing the head of the shadow “Why hello there” tell the shadow while smiling.
      The thing seems to be surprised because it is a shadow and should not be possible to grab it, then it tries to get away and fails to do so. I gather fire on my hand and start trying to burn it but it does nothing. The shadow simply redirects it towards the ground, burning down some plants and grass.
      I get mad at this and quickly make the grass grow again, then tighten my grip at the shadow, it shrieks in pain and seems to be about to die so just tighten the grip slowly until the shadow explodes and falls in the form of little darkness crystals that dissolve when they touch the ground.
      The girls both look pale and terrified as hell “Want to get out?” ask them and extend my arm; they first flinch and take a step back and then say yes, then start walking out. Once they reach the door I feel satisfied with the work here and prepare to leave, but before that close down the space, create money for the girls and make it be there in front of them and then quickly search for that feeling of dread from before.
      The feeling is still there despite the creature being dead, so why? Scan tells me this creature is coming from really, really far away. This is in another universe and that was but a fragment of its power, in fact the creature that actually holds this power recognizes Scan, blocks it and then tries to attack my mind, but we both get backlash from it.
      I fall back and my head starts to hurt, but can also feel the pain felt from the other creature which is fun. Feel like I will be waking up soon, so the next thing that I do is teleport back home and prepare myself some meals, but wake up before being able to taste them.
      Back to sleep.
      I am sitting on bed, become lucid while creeping up and then decide… I need to finish the food from before! Also have many goals to do.
      Prepare to leave when family all tell me I can’t go out because it is night outside. I look up and it is indeed night but… there is light coming through the front door. This can’t be right.
      I scan and there is something weird, some kind of magic item. Jump and try to grab it but when I do so it just becomes into a space warping thing, and it does make me reach out into the night sky, even to space if I fly slowly.
      The thing expands alongside the movement, so I just need to be faster than it! Family seems surprised I was flying but ignore them.
      Count to three, and then start flying as quickly as I can and the item gets ripped apart from the house. End up seeing a cloth of fabric falling down to the ground, it is made of very interesting materials and I want to study them more and see if something like this can be done in waking reality, something that fully blocks light and shows you an image of something else.
      I keep on examining the thing while slowly flying outside the house and then realize this was placed by bearers… why? Because of my encounter with that guy who was super dark? Oh wait… this is someone I know! I can feel the energy signature of a person that is well known.
      Fly over to them, Mzz? What is she doing here? She is inside of a grey car, knock on the window and she lowers it and we talk for a brief moment, she explains in a riddle the why but it makes perfect sense, it won’t stop me from being an annoying little ant for the bearers but it makes sense.
      She disappears not long after and I end up stopping the sun with TK, then make it go backwards and connect it to other stars to go to where the creature was at when I hear a very loud alarm, damn!
      Back to sleep.
      I am in a hallway with impossibly high walls, everything is grey, the thing is moving by itself at insane speeds and taking me nowhere. I become lucid due to how ridiculous this is and then extend my arms.
      The walls start to collapse since they get easily broken and as soon as that happens the thing moves then faster and now there is a door in front of me and the door is closed and made out of bricks.
      I extend my arm and touch it when we arrive and the door gets destroyed as well as everything behind it, then cripple it all with TK and make it into a blackhole, that thing was MASSIVE, so the black hole was big enough to be considered a small head.
      The hallway then goes backwards even faster than it was going to the front before, trying to escape from the black hole? Maybe. Not too much to do and this place has annoyed me enough, Scan keeps expanding and this location seems to be as far out as one can go, meaning that it is always stretching out.
      I clap my hands and then extend them to touch the walls, destroying everything that exists way faster than it expands, it collapses and the next thing I know is that I am left in a void. Teleport to space in another universe and wake up not too long after that.
      Back to sleep.
      I am talking to myself, become lucid and teleport back to space, do the trick with the stars of a universe and make sure I get the right order while stopping their movement with TK then teleport to the gate that opens at the end.
      I come out in the middle of a void space, no other thing here in this universe besides a massive red… something. It’s like a spaceship or tower or something. Think as big as Everest, and I am in front of a massive door that is open and leads inside.
      Fly slowly towards the entrance and just settle on a small space with some dead flowers, some mud and what looks like flesh growing out of the ground, but that’s normal, flesh is growing out of everywhere in this huge thing.
      It also is pulsating and you can hear its heartbeat, there are many hearts from the sound of it, and sometimes blood will fall down. Is this a living prison? If so, what is it imprisoning? Prepare to keep walking but before that, clean my clothes from the stuff that fell on me.
      Walk a few meters ahead of myself when I find a turning point, it has a Y intersection, both seem to go to a place less gory and prepare to go to the left when I hear a “STOP”, real loud and real annoying voice.
      Turn around and barely have enough time to react when I see someone charging at me at full speed.
      Out of reflex use astral vision and make my body more resistant to avoid getting hurt. The feeling is that of a bearer so actually expect to be fatally wounded and prepare to heal myself but there is no damage… what? Go back to my body, the guy that attacked me isn’t that strong, and he is already using his full power.
      He thrusted at me with a spear, a red spear with a golden metal at the tip that was infused with his spirit, the thing hit on my stomach and with astral vision I transformed my body and created a plate to block and it actually did.
      Three more people come from behind the guy, who now looks like a dragon who is in a rage. I prepare to reach out to him when the other 3 scream at me to stop, since when do I obey? Start preparing my next attack when one of them allows me to fully read him using Scan.
      Oh, they are not here for me.
      Take off my attacking stance and just ask the guy to take off his lance from my abdomen, he obliges and grunts about it then complains to the other three “He is a wanted criminal” he says, but the other three say they are here to attend even more important matters.
      The guy makes the lance disappear, the other three finally get a good relaxed breath and all of us start walking to the left passage.
      Space must be warped because it takes us to a big room made out of black glass with a small sliding white glass door. The small white glass is leading to the right side and as such it leads directly to the other hall thing.
      When we reach out I expect to see a wall since we didn’t really move too far and then confirm that space is indeed warped in this location and the proof is simple, the glass door leads to an open space, some kind of open garden with high roofs and walls made out of wooden tile as well as giant tree roots everywhere eating at the walls.
      I mention this is like a TARDIS but nobody understands this and I get ignored royally. Everyone starts walking towards some stairs that are in spiral form not too long from our current location. When we get closer they keep changing between spiral and normal stairs, metal when normal and wooden when spiral.
      Everyone is waiting for them to be made out of metal apparently and it will take some time.
      I learn some stuff about the guy who let me use Scan in this timeframe, he actually fell in love with a human male a few centuries ago and his human was killed so he is bittersweet and this is why he vouched for me.
      I grab his hair like his lover used to do and then give him a kiss on the forehead as a thank you; his friend quickly points his lance at me and tells me not to get any funny ideas, then proceeds to lecture his friend about not trusting me which truth to be told is a great tip.
      The next thing I know is that the two girls do something to the walls and then the stairs become stable so we just go up.
      At the end there is yet another hallway made out of the same fleshy stuff from before and then find a small hole that suddenly gets bigger when we go closer to it.
      It’s made out of plastic tiles this time, or something that looks similar. White, black and orange colours.
      We go in and then it turns into a toboggan that leads directly down for a few kilometres, consider that it may actually be infinite because we should have reached the bottom of the space tower a long time ago and yet we are still falling.
      The others start to get bored but don’t mind it when I find with Scan some small creature made out of shadows like the one before but this one is on a completely different level, couldn’t even tell where it was before.
      Quickly place my hand on the tile where the thing is at and then the system of the toboggan changes quickly to a place with several entrances and exits and the thing starts running away further down.
      This is still super step, but not so bad someone normal may not be able to get out or go deeper in if they so wish to do so.
      The guy who defended me before tells the other that he knew I would be useful, oh? He was using me all this time? I keep going and pursuing the shadow as it didn’t die from the first attack.
      Keep on attacking and it keeps on running away. The others deviate from my location and enter one of the entrances while I keep going further down to the point that we reach the bottom most part of the tower.
      In this place, several sloth-like creatures the size of a human are on the ground, they all look up when they see me so I use TK in order to force them down and then jump over some of them, find a turn to the left and the shadow runs, there is another sloth thing below which it goes through and I have to jump over, there is also a room with a single black window and a small blue wooden door.
      Finally catch the shadow one more time in another turn that goes down a slide that leads to nothing, it just is ending in a lot of rubble but grab it before it goes through it and kill the little thing.
      The next thing I know is that the sloth creatures have finally gotten out of the TK and are all walking towards me. They seem like mindless creatures and as such move slowly but they actually are able to inflict deep mental damage.
      I can feel the guy who sent the other shadow here strongly, in the rubble? Who is he and why is he being investigated? There are actually two creatures, both equally as strong, what should I do now?
      One of the sloths tries to stab my shoulder and I grab its arm then feel a sharp pain in my mind, but if it’s going into my mind I can do the same to theirs. Since they are mindless creatures, its hard but I manage to create mental damage on them which leads to the creatures becoming white instead of their usual black colour and then turning to rock and dissolving to dust.
      Do the same with all three of them and in this hallway and then walk back where I came from. The others are checking rooms on the place and I get over to where they are at and ask them what they are doing, but not much is said to me and they mostly just ignore me, prepare to continue investigating myself but my body is about to fully wake up, apparently I have been asleep for too long because I can no longer force myself to stay asleep damn.
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    9. Winter Competition 2022 Exerpt 1

      by , 12-13-2022 at 02:47 AM (A Nocturnal Opus)
      Before
      I wake up at 5 am. I go to get a glass of water, pee and remember the previous dreams. It takes me a long time to fall asleep (40 min I think and that’s the reason why I don’t practice WBTB or WILD).

      It’s VR. No, it’s a dream: Godzilla.
      In the dream, I am hunting cute Kirby-like creatures scattered along a city street that I can capture for their powers. My latest prey is on someone’s front porch. Then, on that front porch, at the end of the city street above a forest, under a beautiful night sky, I hear this great sound. I don’t only hear it but also feel it. In the distance, from the forest part of the city, there is a giant beast (think Godzilla) walking toward me, bellowing. My mental state is mixed between a readiness to fight it (this is a game after all!) and awe at the surreal quality of the experience. There are gaps in the experience however and I explain it away telling myself my VR headset must be falling off and once I put it back on, it isn’t calibrated properly, so while I am able to bring the fantastical elements of that porch scene, I miss the impact of Godzilla’s arrival. Game over. Disappointment. Now, I realize this person’s porch is their… kitchen. And down the stairs (outside) is more dining room/kitchen furniture. I can hear them inside their house and so I decide to quickly leave their property before they notice me. It’s no longer just furniture outside on the porch. It’s now inside the house, and I hurry out the front, noticing many strange furniture I’ve never seen before but seem functional. But then I realize it’s fine if I trespass, I am dreaming. I might as well do that now: trespass. I have now arrived in a part of the city that has not loaded in much detail so the first building I pick to visit seems boring and empty at first glance, but I let it take life. It becomes a gay commune as I pass the reception room and into the shared bedroom. In the center, there is a bed tree. A center pillar branching out in beds sort of like a tree. The beds are thin and small but not all equal. Couples start to load in. Some couples can sleep side by side while some have to sleep one on another. I notice in particular a man who sleeps on his back with his hands and feet up, and his boyfriend sleeping in an acrobat’s pose resting on his palms and legs. I wonder how can his muscles rest in this position. They slowly come alive and are having lively conversations. I listen and chat for a bit and then move on.

      Fake Awakening bed horror
      I wake up now in bed. My boyfriend and I notice white things scattered above the bed. I focus on them to understand what I am seeing. At first, they seem like rice but then, they subtly become bigger and alien in shape. I say: they must be earwax, they don’t have the texture, but sort of the shape of an inner ear. How could I have shed so much wax? Gross! And then they are bigger and more clearly alian larvae. Disgusting! The biggest one starts moving! They are alive! We hurry to shove them in a bucket and run to a garbage. My boyfriend dumps the bucket, but they get all over. They’re all over me. I can feel the larvae over my whole body. I am frenetic trying to get it off me. I go to take a shower.

      It’s a movie. No, it’s a dream: Ghosts.
      In this dream, I think I am watching a movie about a ghost girl. She is talking to her mother who can’t hear her. The mother is running on a big city street and the girl behind her. I can hardly keep up with them to hear but the story is very touching to me. I am bawling my eyes out as I run, thinking “wow, I love this movie! It’s really making me feel things! Wow. I’ll just watch it again another time to hear more properly. But it’s strange to be running in a movie… A bit like the VR experience, I get gaps in the experience until I lose the girl and her mother around a bus station. The street is lined with open restaurants. I notice a guy sitting between 2 friends. I think he’s cute and decide to focus on that to continue the dream. I approach him flirting, ready to kiss him. He is receptive and shy but then I hesitate because the experience is so surreal, and the scene is so alive with people and conversation. I think, this might be real life and I am in a closed relationship. There is nothing recognizable here and I have no memory of past or future. I really am dreaming: amazing. So, I sit on the guys to be closer to the middle guy that I am flirting with. I flirt for a bit, even with the two other guys but then I kind of scold my wandering mind and focus on the middle one. This prompts the one closest to me to kiss me in a way to give me a hicky. So I kiss the guy I was focusing on and the third one joins in with caresses. I am surprised by the vividness of the touch and of the scene.
      This new scene vaguely feels continuous with the previous one but maybe only because I don’t remember waking up into lucidity and I am in a city street. I am observing the details with a strong sense of traveling. I am impressed. It seems this city is lived in and has its own culture with so many unique details that seem at home here but that I can’t recognize. There’s a pop rock song playing too, I notice. The lyrics are sung clearly by a male’s voice. I am amazed by my mind’s musical talent because I don’t recognize the song. Then, since this is a dream and there are no rules, I decide to start dancing to the music right here and then. Just making my way around, appreciating the details of the sights and the music. Then, I notice some characters behind doorways or down alleyways are also dancing. I think “see, how my mind and this whole dream is one. My own dancing is seeping into the dream.” And then I dance even more, having a good time in this inner city.


      Ghost
      I am inside a service business (think travel agency). It’s very nice and fancy but the dream narrative is that the owners are baddies. They have done injustices unto others, and I am angry. I sense my powers. This is a dream and I can do anything. Throughout the night I have often remembered dreams of invisible people unseen to all but me so from this inspiration, I become invisible to the owners. I become an agent of chaos creating havoc for fun, flying and pushing all the wall and table decorations, throwing random items at the owners. They react in shock and indignation. They run after the disturbances I cause. As they come to grab the stuff I am spilling over the floor, they come so close as to almost discover me, so I phase through a door into the next room and continue there.

      The Dreamviews Winter Challenge: Sip and kiss for stability, winter and body horror
      Presently, the contents of my consciousness are thoughts, no sensations. “What an exciting night! Now, I will wake up. Too bad. I’ve been lucid a lot tonight but I didn’t do anything for the Dreamviews winter challenge… I will get no points. Well, I did fly and phase but that’s not much. Oh well, it was a very interesting night anyway”. I take a sip of a glass of water. Wow. As I sip, I have sight: I can see the inside of the glass, dark liquid in a dark cup, with so many lights reflected on the water, the sound echoing in the glass. It’s a sensory overload in a complete empty dream. The dream is still empty but I have a sense of being somewhere. Ok, maybe it’s not over, I can bring the dream back and complete my tasks! What are my three step tasks? I take another sip. Amazing again. The dream is coming back to life but it’s still empty. There’s just a vague empty human inside the emptiness. Remembering how lucid and vivid I felt in the kissing dream, paired with the previous powerful sips, I decide to further stabilize the dream by kissing the empty human. But before I do, a full human arrives into the dark emptiness with a cloak on hiding his eyes. His face is vivid, but it reminds me of someone I would not kiss. Whatever, it’s not him and it’s a dream. I kiss him. The emptiness is gone! The dream is back! We are in a big room with pillars and people. Inadvertently, the empty human who I had left unkissed latches on to my finger with its mouth. I don’t look but I allow the sensation to remain. Still mid kiss, and vaguely aware of the empty creature at my finger, I focus my attention on the room, and also thinking: “what are my three tasks? Summoning!.. No… Advanced summoning!.. No… There are three advanced tasks… The theme is winter. The first thing is elemental manipulation! And as I think this, I notice, at the bottom of the room, an ice rink. Amazing: I had planned to freeze all the water of the dream into ice to complete the elemental manipulation task as part of the winter theme. But my mind already put some ice into the dream! I am excited by my mind’s trick, but I need to think about how I will recover from the dream beating me to it. Really, the room is like a stadium with the ice rink at the bottom and it’s alive with people. It’s really not a great stadium because there are lots of pillars so I just move on to somewhere else past nearby pillars, still mid kiss. There I find a pool! Great! I focus on turning it into ice. The creature is still at my finger and I stumble and fall. I am scared for the dream stability. I have very little time left. I do not stand up. I focus on the pool from a lying down position. The corner of the pool turns into ice. Not a thin sheet but a complicated multilayered ice. It’s cool and I am happy but then… that’s it? I chose advanced tasks! This will not do it. I wanted everything to be ice and snow. It must all be ice! The pool freezes over. And everywhere I look the moisture freezes into ice and snow. It’s beautiful. And the weird creature that I paid no mind to this whole time lets go of my finger and I notice my finger is looking like a strange white and pink alien salamander larva. I know I shouldn’t pay it any attention, but I can’t take my eyes off and I stare at it move and change forms slowly. And then I wake up, excited to have done it in the nick of time, only to realize my first step was actually full transformation into a deer… oh damn it!

      After
      I wake up at 7h30 so all the previous dreams happened within 2 hours and a half. It’s been the most lucidity I have had in a night.
      Well, now it’s 9h30 and that’s why I don’t keep a dream journal
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