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    The Vampire Apocalypse

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    CanisLucidus
    , 07-06-2013 at 10:54 PM (1376 Views)
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    Lucid #114: The Vampire Apocalypse

    Wife has opened a restaurant and somehow all of the recipes have been lost. She and I are in some place that looks like a choir room, desperately searching through a pile of hundreds of envelopes for the one that contains them. Suddenly I become lucid, but it's a very low level of lucidity. I grasp that I'm dreaming and I understand that this gives me awesome powers, but I have no idea that I could just ignore this whole recipe thing.

    I point at the pile of envelopes, willing the recipes to emerge. One of the envelopes floats a couple of feet in the air and opens, freeing a few sheets of paper that I know have the recipes on them. I grab them out of the air and hand them to Wife. She starts talking excitedly and waving her hands in these grand gestures, but     I soon wake up.

    I hold still for DEILD, but after a brief wait emerge non-lucid sitting in a small, boxy room that's shaped vaguely like a confessional booth. My friend "Dragon" and I are laughing and swapping stories of all the stupid stuff we did when we were kids. From outside my friend "RF" knocks on the booth and then sort of phases or melts through the wall. I realize that this has to be a dream but immediately wake up.

    Back down for DEILD, again winding up in a non-lucid, this time in the hallway of my childhood home. Our neighbor "Mr. G" from when I was a kid is wandering around in our backyard, holding a bag of lawn clippings. I know that he's helping me try to find a 4-leaf clover in this bag of clippings. He becomes angry that I'm not helping and starts throwing the lawn clippings everywhere. I suddenly remember trying to DEILD and become lucid again. There's a door at the back of the house that's not usually there and I walk toward it, preparing to phase. The door swings open just as I approach, though, and again, the dream ends.

    I look for another DEILD and again come up non-lucid. I'm at home with Wife now and she's telling me a story of how someone was attacked by a vampire downtown today. We worry about what this means and whether she's safe going to work.

    Time advances, and now it's early morning. The sun's just coming up and I'm at the back door, looking out over our back yard toward the horizon. I see a swarm of bats approaching and I know that overnight vampirism has become a plague that's spread throughout the world. I tell Wife that we have to hide, and we run upstairs to the bedroom to bunker ourselves in.

    Once upstairs I peer out of a tiny window to the street below. About a dozen vampires are congregating on the street with a handful of human prisoners. The leader of the vampires, blonde and dressed completely in black, shouts bizarre warnings and threats to those of us holed up in our homes. He kicks one of the prisoners, a middle-aged man, to the ground, sprays him with liquid from some kind of squeeze bottle, and lights him on fire.

    I duck down from the window, shaken and frightened. "They're killing everyone," I say to Wife. "Is this like what happens in The Passage? I haven't read that far yet."     (The Passage is a book that I'm slowly reading.)

    Wife nods. "It's exactly the same."

    "Okay," I say. "What did they do? How do we fight these things?"

    She shakes her head gravely. "I can't give spoilers."

    I think this makes complete sense. "You're right. Maybe if we shoot them in the head...?" I now have the AR-15 in my hands.

    "That won't work," she says. Then from out of nowhere, she very graphically and directly demands that we have sex. This is so completely out of character (particularly in a vampire apocalypse)     that I realize it's all a dream.

    "Don't worry," I say. "It's just a dream." I kiss her for a moment. In spite of her earlier insistences, the mood is completely non-sexual. I stand up, thinking about phasing outside.

    "What are you doing?" she says. "Stay down!"

    "This is a dream. There's nothing to worry about." But I can see that she doesn't believe me. I know that she's just a DC, but at this point I'm really attached. I decide that I'll just carry her out of this scene, change locations, and hopefully this nasty dream plot will die off. I kneel down to scoop her up     as the dream fades...
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    Updated 07-07-2013 at 01:52 AM by 57387

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    1. NyxCC's Avatar
      Congrats on the lds! Looks like you were on to complete some subcon tasks there. I love how in both lds you were either helping or saving wife. That's really sweet!

      I duck down from the window, shaken and frightened. "They're killing everyone," I say to Wife. "Is this like what happens in The Passage? I haven't read that far yet." (The Passage is a book that I'm slowly reading.)
      That is why, I am more careful now when picking books/movies/games.
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Heh heh, thanks! It was a nice theme! It's too bad Wife doesn't have much appreciation for lucid dreams, though she did enjoy her line about spoilers.

      And yeah I have really been shying away from watching horror movies or TV series too much if I can help it. At least the stuff that's just purely creepy. I doubt I'll be able to resist going through all of The Walking Dead but I've been trying to keep my diet of horror imagery pretty lean. I think it really makes a difference!
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    3. NyxCC's Avatar
      It's too bad Wife doesn't have much appreciation for lucid dreams, though she did enjoy her line about spoilers.
      I don't know why but I always feel somewhat uneasy talking about my lds to bf and one of his bros. When it's a nld it's like "this thing happened to me" and it feels one way, and when it's an ld, it's like "I consciously did that", then say something stupid (but important to me) I did and feel kind of embarrassed. Even trying to brag about some cool thing I did sounds kind of strange. Oh, well, I guess that's why we have DV - the place where you can tell about your efforts to get naked or punch a head of state without getting any weird looks.
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah, it's a funny thing isn't it? Because even though people are often kind of weird about dreaming in general, most folks are at least dimly aware that they do it and that weird stuff happens. But they very much see themselves as spectators and some are downright uncomfortable with the idea of actually driving the action.

      And on top of it, there's the subtle differences in waking life vs. lucid dream thinking. I'm sure that everyone's got their unique set of traits, but generally speaking I'm me, but some degree of very emotional, impulsive, and kind of dumb version of me. The rational mind is there in lucid dreams, but it's something of a guest.

      Ha ha, I find it a lot easier to talk about flying or eating amazing food than about laying an egg! The basics seems to come across better to folks that haven't tried LD before. But I really need to work on my lucid people skills on helping people appreciate what LD has to offer. Thank goodness for movies like Inception which at least give us a nice base to start from.
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    5. NyxCC's Avatar
      Ha ha, I find it a lot easier to talk about flying or eating amazing food than about laying an egg! The basics seems to come across better to folks that haven't tried LD before. But I really need to work on my lucid people skills on helping people appreciate what LD has to offer. Thank goodness for movies like Inception which at least give us a nice base to start from.
      I don't even know how to start my sales pitch, lol. I guess "don't try to force anything" is the best strategy for me. Let them watch Inception and maybe they'll get hooked.

      And on top of it, there's the subtle differences in waking life vs. lucid dream thinking. I'm sure that everyone's got their unique set of traits, but generally speaking I'm me, but some degree of very emotional, impulsive, and kind of dumb version of me. The rational mind is there in lucid dreams, but it's something of a guest.
      Oh, CL! Your dream self is in no way dumb, forgetful or confused maybe, but not dumb. I generally agree with dreaming self being different, and I surely see dream me being more impulsive and emotional. I even remember sometime ago after some supps that enhance this for me, I would experience even more emotional dreams, dream scandals, etc. that would leave me thinking that something is wrong with me. But this is just the way dreamworld is - everything is much more intensive, fast and fluid. And while the rational mind is indeed a guest or a spectator, there is something that can be done about it.

      Our dream self is very energetic and reactive much like a child or a dog (sorry for the weird comparison but since you have both you can observe and confirm) but that doesn't mean it can't be taught to react in a more calm manner. And just the way you would do this with a child or dog - by repeating and practicing many many times.

      Even if you can't rationalize what the best next thing to do is, what you can learn though repetition in waking life to become more confident. If you are more confident in dreams you will be more resourceful and you would care less about some dream issues.

      I have to also constantly remind this to myself. I was reading some lds from years ago, where it seems I was much bolder than today. It looks like I have become more timid over the years and forgotten all these insights. Now the best way I can deal with this is with autosuggestion/mantras whenever I remember. I think one must strive to build a continuity of character and of actions in lds even if everything looks scrambled there. Basically, tracking your behavior and pushing yourself to the limits to improve your dream character. Mantras, lds, mantras, lds, until you overcome issues. And never be disappointed because you are learning how to do something amazing. It always helps to read through the journals to see how far you've already gone, for example, just like how you guys learned to deal with the void.

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      Updated 07-10-2013 at 02:26 AM by NyxCC
    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah, the more impulsive and emotional dreaming self is a completely normal phenomenon. Because of the regions of the brain that are more and less active during dreams, you're dealing with much stronger emotional forces and a greatly weakened sense of logic and judgment.

      This is probably somewhat weakened when you're lucid, but I'm convinced that much of it remains.

      It's fun playing things out as sort of a different version of yourself, isn't it? It's like you wake up dimly remembering instructions that you left for yourself, but sometimes the echoes are just so faint. With practice, though, it seems that memories cross the barrier between dream life and waking life much more easily. It's slow going, but very exciting stuff. It does take patience though.

      Can't wait to get back in there! I need at least 7 like you got. That ought to do.
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    7. Iokheira's Avatar
      Nice DEILD chaining! All the non-lucid bits were entertaining. How is The Passage? I've started it 3-4 times but I never seem to get further than a quarter in.
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    8. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks, Art! It was a bumpy road, but I was glad that I at least kept the dreaming going, even if I kind of had to DILD back in each time.

      I think that you are probably about where I am with it! IIRC, my Kindle tells me that I am in the low-20%'s on that book. In my defense, I've gotten distracted by the Daniel Love Are You Dreaming? book lately, which is perfect for WBTB. (I think that The Passage is probably not a good one for me to read during WBTB, especially considering that it's giving me scary dreams before I even get to the scary parts... and I haven't read it in days! )

      Something like Animorphs is probably perfect for WBTB...
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