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    Miranda Gloves

    by , 11-04-2014 at 08:29 PM (922 Views)
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    Lucid #253: Miranda Gloves

    Wife and I are sitting next to each other on the patio of a restaurant, chilling out and enjoying the nice weather. I think that we’re near Disney World. Another couple enters the patio area and Wife asks them how they liked Disney World, but they look irritable and don’t respond. Wife gets annoyed at first, but then says something like, “Never mind, they’re having a problem right now.”

    Wife gets up and walks through a nearby door, signalling that I should follow her. Now we’re in a carpeted area that looks sort of like our master bathroom. She locks eyes with me while explaining what this woman is going through. I feel this big swell of lovey-dovey and amorous feelings and think to “look for the dream”,
    becoming lucid as I do this. Wife continues talking, explaining that the woman is frustrated by her life and is eager to disappear into virtual reality. I get a vision of the woman wearing a pair of haptic gloves that Wife calls “Miranda Gloves”. There’s something terribly sad about her life, but she feels real hope at the idea of her escape into VR.



    As the story concludes, I’m incredibly drawn to be physical with Wife. I say some silly line that I can’t remember (but I remember even then thinking it was really cheesy, ) and Wife looks unimpressed. I shut up for a bit, though, and now she’s interested too and we start making out. Things proceed quickly and we go to the floor for sexytime.

    I'm leaving out most of the details because this got quite graphic, but one part in particular was very striking.

    Spoiler for Explicit:


    As we continue this, a woman dressed like a food vendor at a baseball game wanders by. The box of items she’s wearing contains haptic gloves instead of food! She notices what Wife and I are doing and looks interested, beginning to take off her box of gloves so she can join us. Wife waves her away, though, and she wanders off.



    A window to the left catches my eye and Wife and I somehow flow from what we’re doing to standing beside it, dressed again. We’re looking over a city skyline set against a reddish sky. Wife is surrounded by a faint red halo, too, and she looks stunning. I place my arms around her waist and lean in to be as close to her as I can.

    The building nearest to us towers above the rest. As I look at it, the other buildings fade into the red sky. This building has a large sign on top of it that reads: “Miranda Gloves”. After a moment of looking at this
    , I wake up.

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    Comments

    1. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Awww, such a sweet dream!
      Too bad Wife wasn't down for sexytimes with the vendor chick, or you could test out Dreamboat's signature move!

      Congrats on the lucidity, you big ol' (pi)!
    2. Bharmo's Avatar
      Congrats on this nice LD!
      Your mantra is working really well. Would you mind explaining how did you choose it, an when do you use it?
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Awww, such a sweet dream!
      Too bad Wife wasn't down for sexytimes with the vendor chick, or you could test out Dreamboat's signature move!

      Congrats on the lucidity, you big ol' (pi)!
      @Dreamer - Ha haaa, thanks! I think that hanging out with you and being exposed to your lovely dreamboat-fueled cheesiness has turned me into a big ol' almond (pi).

      (I first typed out "being exposed to your lovely (pi)iness") but by God did that look wrong! )

      LOL, great idea on "whipping out" Dreamboat's signature move!
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      @Bharmo - Thanks, Bharmo, I appreciate the encouragement! I've been really happy with how it's worked recently. I wrote something up just a few days ago that I think gives a decent idea of what I'm doing. But of course feel free to ask me anything and share any ideas that come to mind about it!

      What I do is try to internalize the attitude that I'll have many dreams every night and that they'll feel very much as waking life does now, but that if I look for them at the right time, I can find them. And furthermore, I keep it firmly in my mind that there's great joy both in the process of seeking and finding the dream.

      Whenever it occurs to me to do so, I think of lucid dreaming and spend a moment reflecting on how happy lucid dreaming makes me while I look for the dream in what I see around me. Is it here? No? Well, it will be soon, and it'll be awesome.

      I especially do this when I find myself experiencing any slight negative feelings like stress or social anxiety. As a nice side effect, it forces me outside of my head to examine this world that I'm a part of and see whether it's all my own creation.

      I think that the joy of these moments is a big part of what's made it work for me. It feels easy, peaceful, relaxed, but with this sense of happy anticipation. Like dreams are coming very soon, and it's good to be ready. I hope that helps give some idea of what I do!
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    5. fogelbise's Avatar
      Awesome! Your mindset to "look for the dream" comes through directly! And bunches of carpet...what a great visual!
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    6. Xanous's Avatar
      Nice one with the wife. I like the extra odd detail. I could imagine how that could be extra nice. That's interesting about...

      There’s something terribly sad about her life, but she feels real hope at the idea of her escape into VR.
      I could see this being a real issue with the upcoming perfection of VR. Occulus Rift seems like the first real step in this direction that I have seen in a long time. (All things in moderation). There was some novel with that in it... Was it A Hitchhikers Guide? Or even the wireheads from Ringworld. Ok my inner nerd is showing and I'm rambling. Great dream though. I loved it.
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      Updated 11-06-2014 at 04:38 AM by Xanous (Ubuntu makes my touch pad ultra sensitive. #ecstasy)
    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by fogelbise
      Awesome! Your mindset to "look for the dream" comes through directly! And bunches of carpet...what a great visual!
      Thanks, fogelbise! It's been very effective lately, which I'm grateful for. I also like how it feels during the daytime. It brings me a sense of warmth to reflect for a moment on the fact that the dreams will come. And yeah, in spite of my efforts to focus, that carpet image kept popping up to distract me yesterday.

      Quote Originally Posted by Xanous
      Nice one with the wife. I like the extra odd detail. I could imagine how that could be extra nice. That's interesting about...

      I could see this being a real issue with the upcoming perfection of VR. Occulus Rift seems like the first real step in this direction that I have seen in a long time. (All things in moderation). There was some novel with that in it... Was it A Hitchhikers Guide? Or even the wireheads from Ringworld. Ok my inner nerd is showing and I'm rambling. Great dream though. I loved it.
      @Xanous - Thanks, man, it was a great dream! You're right about VR... I welcome it and I think that the technology is going to open up some amazing possibilities to humanity, but anything that fun and immersive always carries with it the risk of escapism. Sometimes an escape is what a person needs... but what's healthy and what's not? That said, I'm very much an optimist about it.

      As for books, Neuromancer is one that definitely comes to mind! A more recent one is Ready Player One, that's some serious VR and classic arcade geekery!
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      Updated 11-06-2014 at 05:11 AM by CanisLucidus
    8. Bharmo's Avatar
      I think that the joy of these moments is a big part of what's made it work for me. It feels easy, peaceful, relaxed, but with this sense of happy anticipation. Like dreams are coming very soon, and it's good to be ready.
      Thanks! I'm always impressed about how you harness the power of positive reinforcement!
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    9. fogelbise's Avatar
      And yeah, in spite of my efforts to focus, that carpet image kept popping up to distract me yesterday.
      Definitely the kind of distraction I welcome!
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    10. NyxCC's Avatar
      Congrats on the ld! Cool how the gloves storyline continued throughout the ld. Loved the red halo effect too.

      And no comments about the rest .
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    11. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha ha, thanks Nyx! Yeah, the gloves theme was a cool one and of course being about VR... well that's right in my wheelhouse! It's interesting because we've been so focused on the current project that we haven't been talking VR at the office nearly as much. That's what single-minded focus does!

      It's cool to have the dreaming brain call these VR ideas back up for some nighttime exploration. That part's stuck with me too. I have no time to do it, but I had a really strong urge to read some good VR-themed sci-fi.
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    12. NyxCC's Avatar
      Yeah, the gloves theme was a cool one and of course being about VR... well that's right in my wheelhouse! It's interesting because we've been so focused on the current project that we haven't been talking VR at the office nearly as much. That's what single-minded focus does
      Yes, your tech dreams are always so cool. Don't forget when you have the desire you have a teleport gadget to build.

      I have no time to do it, but I had a really strong urge to read some good VR-themed sci-fi.
      Lol, I'm quite behind with reading too, but it would be nice to exchange a few titles (best for movies, but I'm open to iTunes available books) on the subject. When I read about some of the recent developments in science (technology that could reconstruct your dreams) plus the usual VR gadgetry and all the networking already in place, the movie Surrogate comes to mind.
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    13. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yes, your tech dreams are always so cool. Don't forget when you have the desire you have a teleport gadget to build.
      Thanks, Nyx, I love dream tech too! And yes, I love your dare with the teleport gadget! In fact, I was just talking with Dreamer the other day about what goals I wanted to focus on, and I shortlisted your dare and hyu's as ones I'm so excited about taking on. I'm taking a break from TotM right now to focus on this and a handful of other cool ideas I've been putting off.

      Thanks again for such a thoughtful dare, and one that'll benefit me for a long time to come when (not "if", yeeaaah!) I pull it off.

      Lol, I'm quite behind with reading too, but it would be nice to exchange a few titles (best for movies, but I'm open to iTunes available books) on the subject. When I read about some of the recent developments in science (technology that could reconstruct your dreams) plus the usual VR gadgetry and all the networking already in place, the movie Surrogate comes to mind.
      I don't have good suggestions for VR movies! I'm not versed enough in this segment of movies, I think. All of the examples I can think of are slightly cheese and out of date. Ready Player One is bigtime VR nerd fiction. Neuromancer is a great book for this too!
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    14. NyxCC's Avatar
      I'm taking a break from TotM right now to focus on this and a handful of other cool ideas I've been putting off.
      Looking forward to reading your new adventures. It's also high time I gather a bit of enthusiasm and do a wbtb and few tasks too.

      I don't have good suggestions for VR movies! I'm not versed enough in this segment of movies, I think. All of the examples I can think of are slightly cheese and out of date. Ready Player One is bigtime VR nerd fiction. Neuromancer is a great book for this too
      Lol, I've been so behind with movies that they might seem current to me. Anyways, thanks for the book titles, they sound pretty interesting. Who's the necromancer's author? There are quite a few books with this title.
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      Updated 11-13-2014 at 01:24 AM by NyxCC
    15. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      The book is called Neuromancer, (with a "u") a mash-up of "neuro" and "necromancer". The author is the great sci-fi writer William Gibson. There was even an old-school video game for the book that I played as a kid back in the day!

      This was written back in the 80s but not only did it coin the term cyberspace, it did a great job of expressing some early ideas as to what its shape might be.
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    16. NyxCC's Avatar
      Lol, thanks! Once again my mind is reading whatever it wants to, this time blame it on true blood. Perhaps I'm dreaming?
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      Updated 11-13-2014 at 02:54 PM by NyxCC
    17. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha ha, maybe we both are!... Okay, not me, I checked. Just you then! Now go get lucid!
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