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    The Hall of Letters

    by , 03-24-2013 at 02:05 PM (1049 Views)
    This was a great LD for breaking a dry spell! No progress on tasks, but some fun action, a DV member cameo, and what feels like progress on keeping caffeine dreams stable. As usual, the last thing that I read during WBTB (in this case, a Visitor Message from NewArtemis) has a significant impact on my dream content.

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #79: The Hall of Letters

    I'm sitting on the side of the mountain, looking across a green valley at another mountain that's dotted with caves. A person sits in each of these distant caves. I recognize my college friend RS and somehow I can talk to him even across this huge distance. The weather is sunny, clear, and beautiful, so I casually say to RS, "Isn't the day amazing?"

    "It is!" he says, and suddenly blankets and rugs come pouring out of the mouths of these faraway caves. The blankets and rugs go tumbling and sliding down the side of the mountain to the valley below. Fascinated, I wander into the valley, not sure what to make of what I'm seeing.

    Now the valley is teeming with hundreds of people. Each of them spreads out a picnic blanket, removes their shirt, and flops down onto their stomachs to sun themselves. I see RS take a spot of his own ahead of me and to the left and I realize that I am now holding a blanket as well. I start scoping out a spot of my own.

    As I'm looking around, I see AA, a mutual summer crush from high school. I want to say hi but when she removes her shirt I see that unlike the rest of the female DCs, she's not wearing a bikini top underneath. I turn away, not wanting to get caught staring. I lay out my blanket and remove my shirt, looking forward to feeling the sun on my skin. But when I check, I find that I have another shirt on underneath my original.
    "This is a dream..." I tell myself, and almost immediately Hulk-jump out of the valley, thinking of the Great Wall of China.

    As I'm soaring through the air, the scene quickly darkens and soon I'm in the void. "This is fine," I tell myself, "I can do this all night." I rub my hands together and feel my forearms, drawing myself into my dream body. With my left hand I reach down and massage my knee cap, extending my right hand for aid. I beg for help, saying, "Bail me out. Pull me into a new scene."

    A smallish hand, seemingly female, grips mine and yanks me forward. A voice says, "Hey! It's [NewArtemis]! I know you can't see yet, but we need to keep running!" I obey, and I sense that we're running through the hallways of some building.

    I start getting flashes of imagery -- signs with arrows and strange, all-caps letter patterns like "ABCD ->" and "<- PQDELJH ->" (the first one was definitely in the dream, but the second is a reconstruction/guess.) Seconds later, I'm in the halls running, my vision restored. Art says something along the lines of, "Okay, you're good now," and drops my hand.

    I hear the running footsteps of pursuers, so I begin floating so that I can get a look behind us. I move a few feet ahead of Art, turn around, and start floating backward. A squad of frightening-looking Enclave Soldiers (from Fallout 3) is pursuing us, perhaps 50 feet behind. "It's those guys from Fallout," I say, not able to remember what they're called. Art doesn't appear particularly concerned about this, so I figure this isn't as big of a deal as I'm making it out to be.



    At the end of the hall, we take a right turn into a circulator elevator with a bumpy, cylindrical metal pole in the middle of it. I feel the bumps with both hands, and the texture is like that of a cheese grater. "You should do this," I tell Art. "It really helps with stabilization." Feeling confident, I boastfully add, "This is making my dream so stable. Try it." She laughs and shakes her head like I'm really failing to grasp something basic.

    Art shifts to where she's out of sight behind the pole, and when I look around the other side to find her, she has completely vanished. The elevator doors have shut now and I'm on my own. There are buttons with weird symbols on them and I start pressing them at random. Each one lights up as I touch it and soon I feel a faint vibration from the elevator like it's moving.

    I wait a long time, hoping that the elevator doors will open, but nothing seems to be happening. I begin to fret that I'm in a bad situation now -- stuck in a small room, inactive and waiting for something to happen. The dream begins to feel thin, goes dark, and my half-hearted DEILD attempt fails.
    I'm awake now.

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    Comments

    1. Xanous's Avatar
      Ah dude your topless part just reminded me of the NLD I tried to DEILD from. Hmmm. Anyway, I love the Fallout Enclave guy chasing you! Epic. Nice job on the caff LD too. I'm jealous with my recent failures. Now I'm getting a little antsy to try again!
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      LOL, I'm glad that the borderline-oversharing of that awkward moment came in handy for you. Hey! Did that birth a new DJ entry for you? That is badass! Okay, I really am proud of myself now. I'll have to check that out.

      I didn't know you played Fallout 3! Sweet. What a game.

      Yeah, I'll try to get a sec here to post up the supplement combination that I used! We know caffiene can work. It's just a more complex formulation because caffeine is often a supporting supplement. So there are more elements to get right to make it work, I think.
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    3. PennyRoyal's Avatar
      Right on! Art showed up and saved the day!

      Sounds like a fun one CL! Nice!
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    4. Xanous's Avatar
      I didn't know you played Fallout 3! Sweet. What a game.
      Huh, you don't understand. I have played EVERY Fallout game. Not just the new ones. It started with PC. I LOVE it.
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by PennyRoyal
      Right on! Art showed up and saved the day!

      Sounds like a fun one CL! Nice!
      Thanks, man, it really was a great dream! Interestingly, this "hold your hand out and beg for help" routine worked for me once in one of my kinda-early LDs. Except it was Julia Roberts of all people that helped me that time. But this is cooler because apart from the fact that I'm really not a Julia Roberts fan, Art has a much better idea of how to handle herself around Enclave soldiers.

      Ah, here's that old one: Alone in the Dark - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views. See? Much less cool.

      Edit: Oh, thought of another one where I did this "help me!" trick: The Dream Coordinator - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views So that is 3 separate times, with a 100% rate of success, I think. I need to remember this! It seems like so long as I stabilize first, this is really reliable.

      Quote Originally Posted by Xanous
      Huh, you don't understand. I have played EVERY Fallout game. Not just the new ones. It started with PC. I LOVE it.
      Oh, nice!! I own Fallout and Fallout 2 on gog.com but haven't had the time to play them! They look like awesome games, though. Someday I'll find the time!
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      Updated 03-24-2013 at 07:28 PM by CanisLucidus
    6. Xanous's Avatar
      Don't forget fallout tactics too!
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Don't forget fallout tactics too!
      Oh! Forgive me, my friend, but I had to google Fallout Tactics! Is that good too? GOG had a big sale on the fallout series (and other Interplay stuff IIRC) and I may have overlooked that one.
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    8. Xanous's Avatar
      Oh yeah I think it's better than 1 and 2.
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    9. Iokheira's Avatar
      This. Is. Awesome! Sorry I didn't take you to the Great Wall, but at least I got you out of the void! The NL part was interesting too, sounded really beautiful. I wish we could record our dreams so people could see everything like we saw it!

      And I wasn't stupid! Yay!
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    10. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah, you totally rocked it! Even the Enclave was just another day at the office for you. And many thanks for that awesome bailout from the void! Feel free to bail me out when I am a) stuck in the void b) missing a dream sign c) stuck in another "long meeting dream" or d) generally acting like a dumbass (this is most dreams.)

      Thanks. The NLD was a striking scene. I really enjoyed that part. Surreal and strangely peaceful. Looking back, it's funny that I didn't even think about hanging around for a nanosecond once I became lucid. I think it's one of the side effects of being so insanely pumped up for an LD!
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