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    The Divine Stream

    by , 07-31-2014 at 07:48 PM (802 Views)
    To start off this dream journal I wanted to include this lucid entry because it was the first time I felt like I reached a newer level of dream control I seem to be on now, and it wasn't too long ago that it happened. This came at the very end of the month of May, and is the last vivid lucid I can recall before the one I had two nights ago. I don't recall exactly if there was more dream leading up to this part, but I'm just going to include the significant piece of it that I can remember.

    I found myself wandering around a very large house with an impressive artistic design; it felt like the kind of place that someone with a lot of money to waste might pay a skilled architect to build into a natural setting. The main thing that I can remember about it was that it was sort of blocky and there were a lot of beige colors. I was walking through what appeared to be something like the living room, but a huge one, and there were many other people walking around as well. I don't recall who exactly this might have been anymore, but I just know that I saw a celebrity or otherwise someone who I just knew shouldn't be there, and upon that realization I became lucid.

    Out of nowhere, several police officers started raiding the house. I wasn't quite sure exactly what they were trying to find, but I did know that I didn't really care to find out. People were starting to run around in a panic as if they had something important to hide, and I knew that I had to do some quick thinking to figure out a way to dispose of the officers if I wanted to actually explore this dream in peace. I didn't find much to work with after a quick glance around the house especially with all of the people everywhere in my way, so I ended up frantically running outside to try to come up with a plan.

    When I got out there I saw that we were located in the middle of a forest, though the trees weren't placed together too thickly so you could still see beyond them to a horizon in the distance. It was very picturesque, and added to the feel of how I described the house before. There still wasn't much out there for me to go on though, so I had to make a split-second decision. I felt my desperation welling up inside me, and I decided to focus that emotion as much as I possibly could into my dream control. Acting purely on instinct, I realized that energy into the first thing that I could possibly think of, which began happening simultaneously as it entered my mind: a tidal wave to simply wash the whole situation away.

    There was a deep roaring as the massive tsunami started visibly and quickly rising up over the horizon in the distance, and within seconds had reached the point of blocking out the sun in the sky. I hurried back over to the entrance to the house that I had originally come out of because it placed the house directly in the path between the tsunami and myself, and soon after the water came crashing down on to the terrain around me. However, something I noticed as I looked into the house was that all of the people were suddenly gone. Was there even a point to this in the first place? The water was starting to burst into through all of the windows, shattering the glass everywhere, and it was all building up and approaching me quite realistically. As the intense torrential force hurled towards me, my last lucid thought was that this may not have been the best idea to summon.


    Once the water hit me, I died instantaneously. However, the dream still continued to progress, just from a third-person perspective. "I" was now seeing a bird's-eye view of what appeared to be an extremely large and extravagant fountain which appeared to be at the base of a cylindrical room in the center of some ancient temple which conveyed a lot of power. There was a very geometric design to the flow of the water which came from the fountain, carrying it in a series of circles from the top of the structure to the circle around it and then outward from the room. My camera angle was spinning just slightly, very slowly to one side. There were also I believe four completely bronze-colored, metallic-looking, and quite muscular male human shapes who were all floating into the air in four corners around the fountain with their arms outstretched to the ceiling.

    For the duration of this experience there was an emotion that this fountain is the temple that "I" was observing actually exists in another dimension outside of our own, and is in some way a metaphysical resting place for many different worlds including our own. The water that was flowing out of the fountain was felt to in fact be a divine stream which would inevitably bring the end of each world when its time came, and it was inherently understood that the tsunami which I had summoned was actually the wave that came to end our world. Unknowingly, I had brought upon the end of our existence as we know it, which is possibly why my perspective was switched to this vision to begin with. This was all interpreted conceptually in a matter of a seconds, and once this flash of imagery passed, I awoke.

    The significance of this lucid dream for me was that I had never before been able to so effectively and effortlessly summon something as enormous and powerful as that tidal wave which I merely pulled up on a whim. This gave me some new ideas about attempting to alter a dream scenario by channeling my emotions into my abilities, which my most recent lucid (the one after this one) seems to have reinforced fairly well. Since this was the only dream I had like this that came significantly before I created this account, I figured it would be good to record it for future reference.
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    Tags: death, summoning
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    1. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Wwwwow on that tidal wave! Amazing dream control to call up something like that. And very cool use of negative emotional energy, which is so often the beginning of the end for effective dream control in my own LDs. Emotions that seem so easily subdued in waking life just jump right off the leash in LDs a lot of times.

      Maybe things didn't turn out exactly like you wanted, but this made for a way cool action dream and some seriously advanced summoning!
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    2. Alysendra's Avatar
      Hehe, have you read my other entry? If you want to talk about negative emotional energy. X)

      And thanks! I was shocked myself. I hadn't really had a lucid for a while before that and the ones that I can recall didn't particularly stand out much. I'm definitely excited to see what more I can do with this!! Summoning has always been a favorite power of mine especially as it relates to things like this wave, I always thought it would be cool to build up my dream self into some kind of elemental witch.

      My dreams actually used to fall apart really easily from negative emotions too. I think what's really started to change it for me is just that I've gotten so used to immediately channeling my strong emotions into some kind of on-the-fly dream control. It seems to have worked out pretty well in my favor, though I'm starting to think I may have to learn to hold back with it more lest I risk obliterating the entire dream world every time I want to see something cool lol.
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Sounds like I need to check it out!

      Summoning is always pretty cool, but this kind of summoning is a whole different deal. You'd have to call this a mega-summon when you call up something so massive that it does essentially a full scene-wipe and winds up changing every inch of the dreamscape.

      I guess that strong emotion in dreams is a tough beast to tame no matter what. This must be why dream yoga emphasizes the very moderate, detached approach to emotion. Sure does make some cool stuff happen though!
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    4. Alysendra's Avatar
      I was pretty proud of this. I was just hoping it wasn't going to hurt when it hit me haha. (It didn't.) I liked where it took the dream too, that's the only time I've died in a dream but kept experiencing something afterward....

      Heh heh, I think I prefer the extreme approach. I'll learn control through trial and error. If I had just stopped after summoning the lava demon in the other dream rather than exploding everything into oblivion then that would've been just fine, for instance. X)
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Plus, the "I tore the planet apart with a giant lava monster" dreams count for a lot more dream control bragging points than the "I walked slowly through the dreamscape with the calm of a meditating yogi" ones.

      It also depends so much on what you're craving out of a dream, whether it's power, destruction, action, action, serenity, or beauty... it's all out there. Gotta love this stuff!
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    6. Alysendra's Avatar
      That is quite true. Though the calm will still be some impressive control for me haha.

      Hmmmm.... I think for me it's about power, power, and power. Soon all of the dream world will bow down before me.
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