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    The Journey Mural

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    CanisLucidus
    , 11-12-2013 at 10:53 PM (638 Views)
    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #161: The Journey Mural

    I'm walking around in the kitchen with Wife, carrying a baby girl and lamenting the fact that my previous lucid dream was too short. I look over to see that the microwave timer is counting down from 59. "A short lucid dream is better than nothing, isn't it?" asks Wife.

    I figure she's right. I look back at the timer again and notice that it's now counting 2... 1... and then blanks out completely. I realize that everything about this is odd and     I become lucid.

    The baby girl has vanished and I no longer hear Wife saying anything. I guess they've both left the scene. I move toward the closest exit (the back door) but it looks oppressively dark in that direction. The dream is not feeling stable to me and I don't feel like my cognitive abilities are all there.

    I turn back toward the living room, slowly moving past the dining room table, through the living room toward the front door. The darkness presses down on me the entire time, and I feel like I'm slowing down.

    I suddenly notice that I'm having trouble breathing. I try again and can't manage more than a few gasps. The whole experience is starting to make me nervous, and I start wondering if I just need to make the dream more vivid to make these problems go away.

    A picture on the wall catches my eye. In waking life, it's a stylized world map. But in this dream, it looks more like some kind of abstract mural, similar to the artwork you find in the video game Journey. There are 3 or 4 robed figures at the bottom of what looks like a multi-story building.



    As I approach the painting, I see the robed figures stir just a bit as if they're alive. I'm still not breathing, but I hope that if I can somehow just change the scene everything will be okay. I rub my hands together for a moment and then reach for the painting, intending to dive into it. The robed figures stir to greater activity, the painting becoming a larger and larger part of my vision... but     the dream ends.
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    1. Highlander's Avatar
      Congrats. on the lucid CL. I guess that breathing thing would have made me nervous too.
      I bet the darkness was a bit imposing as well which wouldn't have helped.

      Good recall with the picture BTW.
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, Highlander! Yeah, the breathing issues did make me nervous, but I'm pleased to at least dimly realize that I probably wasn't going to die. I did worry that the LD would be cut short, though! (Priorities, heh heh...)
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    3. Xanous's Avatar
      I was hoping that diving in the picture was going to work. Paintings are so cool in dreams.
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    4. fogelbise's Avatar
      3 bizarre lucid dreams posted today! Were they all last night and did you do anything different to induce them?
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      @Xanous - Yeah me too, man! I was definitely going for that, and I think it would if I'd been a little more in command of the dream. I don't know what governs it, but some of them are just too wobbly sometimes and don't hold together as well in transitions. I wonder if mindset could have corrected it though... I may have been freaked out from the breathing.

      @fogelbise - Yeah, these were all from last night! I did take galantamine last night, but that doesn't necessarily tend to usually make dreams bizarre for me. I couldn't exactly say where the bizarreness came from! I did add a little extra B5 with my galantamine, that was new. I wouldn't think that would make much difference but you never know!
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    6. NyxCC's Avatar
      Cool dream! Very interesting that you have a world map irl, and exactly that map turned into a mural from the Journey game. If that's not an indicator that you have this portal right there in your home!

      Similarly, I happen to have another related idea about quickly getting to desired locations - the TV. I guess it should be quite easy to find or summon one and then watch the scene of a movie about TOTY, gladiator, etc. I think it should be easier to either zoom in or slowly phase in the scene, since there's no interuption of visual input unlike phasing though walls.
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    7. Xanous's Avatar
      I'm going to butt in here but I did that with the TV once. It wasn't planned but more on the fly. Its very possible and a great idea!
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    8. NyxCC's Avatar
      I'm going to butt in here but I did that with the TV once. It wasn't planned but more on the fly. Its very possible and a great idea!
      Cool! Your input is very welcome, Xanous! I love to hear about ideas and experiences you guys have. We are still on the lookout for a few easy and reliable teleports/scene change methods.
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      Updated 11-21-2013 at 09:41 PM by NyxCC
    9. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Cool dream! Very interesting that you have a world map irl, and exactly that map turned into a mural from the Journey game. If that's not an indicator that you have this portal right there in your home!
      Thanks! And you know, I can't believe it, but this idea never occurred to me. If I'm in that room, that painting should be there, and now I've seen it be a portal before. Why can't it be one again, right? Great idea, Nyx...

      Similarly, I happen to have another related idea about quickly getting to desired locations - the TV. I guess it should be quite easy to find or summon one and then watch the scene of a movie about TOTY, gladiator, etc. I think it should be easier to either zoom in or slowly phase in the scene, since there's no interuption of visual input unlike phasing though walls.
      Yeah this seems like a great idea because it's such a natural way for your mind to imagine a whole new scene taking shape right before your eyes. We're conditioned throughout our lives to see pictures form from out of nowhere on a television screen, images of places around the world, fantastical scenes, anything we could imagine. The mind should offer no resistance at all to the idea of images taking shape from our of nothing on a television!
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