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09.08.2010

When You Can't Beat 'Em. . . (DILD)

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NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Originally Posted by Mzzkc

Lucidly, I fought a man who refused to die, even when I shoved my energy shrouded katana through his heart and tore it up 'till the blade exited the top of his skull; after making a truce with the man, I taught myself a new trick using Dual Blades, while Bankai'd, wherein a flurry of golden-light charged thrusts created a powerful blast of energy which punched a large hole in the nearby wall.

I was in an airport with my mother, we were in a hurry to catch a plane before it left. I wanted to stop and get something to drink, but there wasn't time for that. I finally found a restaurant with a fridge out front with some drinks in it and another case used to keep hamburgers hot, I realized it was a McDonald's. I was thinking it would be awfully easy to grab something without paying and walk off, since the cases kept me concealed from the restaurant employees. I snagged a coke and tried for a burger, but that case was locked. I looked back at the soda side and that was looked, too, now. I figured I had just lucked out that someone before me hadn't closed the soda cooler tight enough to make it lock, my mom didn't seem to care that I'd jacked a soda, she just wanted me to hurry.

I hurried after my mother down a couple more halls and we got onto the plane just as the gate was about to close, I took my seat by the window and my mother sat beside me. She was clearly relieved to have made it in time to catch the plane before it left. I was trying to think where we were going, I couldn't think of where that might be, and that seemed really weird to me. It led me to do a nose pinch reality check, and I could still breathe, so I must be dreaming!

I told my mother that I didn't need to be on the plane since I could fly without one, and I phased through the side of the plane and out into the open air where I could fly. I flew on into the city, which was clearly not my home town, there were more tall skyscrapers than in my home town. I flew around and between the buildings, I saw there were power lines connecting the buildings and got another idea. I jumped onto one of the lines and slid along it, in the video game Infamous it was called grinding, and I thought I could use electrical powers like Cole. But what were my goals? I couldn't think of any particular goals I had, so I hopped onto the next power line and slid along that one, sparks flying behind me as I picked up speed.

I finally landed on the top of a building and looked around, wondering if there was anything else I could do in this dream. I was rather frustrated that I couldn't remember any specific goals, that so far I had only run around having fun during this dream, but maybe a fun dream every now and then is a good thing. I was about to head for some more power lines when I saw a strange cloaked man climb from a stairwell in the building I was on, he was holding a black gem that I could sense had a lot of negative energy in it. He glanced around a bit, then threw an energy ball at me before running and jumping to the next building. He was surprisingly fast, there was no way I would keep up with him on foot, but I somehow knew that him having that gem was bad. I jumped on one of the power lines and slid along them much faster than I could ever have run, intercepting the man as his path crossed mine again, throwing balls of lightning at him. That seemed to take him by surprise, I don't think he expected anyone around there to have any kind of powers, and my first attacks hit him before he was able to jump out of the way of the rest. I landed right beside him and summoned a bolt of lightning down on top of him. He fell to the ground, sparking, and didn't move.

I went over to the body and kicked it a couple of times, there was no way he could be dead yet, was there? I found the dark gem on the man and it was filled with dark energy, a nice thing for me to find, it was just disappointing how weak the man had been. I wondered if the idiot had thought he could control the dark energy or it he had been retrieving it for someone else, my next thought was that he was so weak he couldn't control his own bladder let alone dark energy. I wondered if there was anything else to do there, I was absently draining some dark energy from the shard into myself even though I didn't really need it, but it felt good, coming straight from the gem it felt stable. I was trying again to think of my goals when everything faded and I woke.

I opened a portal back to the biodome, to the location beside the koi pond, figuring I would check there again before moving on to my next goal.

I wasn't sure how much of the dream I had left, so I thought I had better extend the dream before it was too late. I focused on using Allura's method of time dilation, condensed the time on the clock in my mind's eye. I didn't notice much of a change, not really anything I could clearly identify, i thought maybe that was because I hadn't been losing the dream when I did it. With that done it was time to figure out what to do next.

I waited for a short time at the koi pond, but no one showed up, and then I thought it was time to continue to my next goal, which was to share an Oblivion dream with Tigress. As we had agreed upon earlier, I opened a portal while focusing on getting to the battle arena in Imperial City, Tamriel. A portal opened and I went through it, wondering If Tigress would be waiting for me on the other side or if I might just go ahead and have an Oblivion dream on my own if she wasn't. As I emerged into Imperial City I saw that I needn't have worried about it. I spotted Tigress right away… picking the lock on the chest containing the money from people's wagers? What did she want with money? I also spotted a guard heading our direction, he would surely see her. While I had no doubt that she could handle anything the guards could bring, I didn't really want to waste the whole dream fighting off stupid Imperial guards instead of looking for an Oblivion gate to close. So I went over to the guard and asked him a typical Oblivion type question, what was going on lately. He asked if I had been living under a rock, everyone was worried about the Oblivion gate that had opened up right in front of the city. He said it was just a matter of time before the daedra came through and attacked… Tigress came over to us and said she had heard about the Oblivion gate, and we were going to close it. The guard laughed and said if it was that easy the guard would have already done it.

So Tigress and I ignored the guard laughing and headed towards the front of the city, towards the main entrance. There were guards there, and they didn't want to let us leave, they said it wasn't safe out there due to the Oblivion gate being so close to the city, so no one was being allowed to enter or leave. Tigress and I just headed for another of the exits, that one was guarded, too, it looked like they had sealed the entire city off. This wasn't a problem, Tigress and I just climbed up the side of one of the buildings, we didn't really want to start flying from the ground where it might be noticed, and then we flew over the walls to the city and landed outside.

There was no wondering where the Oblivion gate was, the eerie red light and the wilted and dying foliage clearly indicated where the gate could be found. We followed the light from that, I saw some daedra out in the distance, the Flame Atronach were clearly seen against the darker landscape, but they didn't seem to have seen us. Before long Tigress and I found ourselves at the base of a massive Oblivion gate. There were several scamps milling around, they didn't even know what had hit them before they were dead. I had my Witchblade sword. Without any hesitation we went right into the Oblivion gate, leaving Tamriel behind.

On the other side of the gate was the planes of Oblivion, which look just like I remember seeing them in the video games, although the layout of things was a bit different. There were three primary towers that were situated around the Oblivion gate, and there was a beam of energy coming from the top of each tower and feeding into the Oblivion gate. I wondered if all of those had to be stopped in order to close the gate, or would getting rid of one of them set the gate off balance and force it to close? There wasn't a lot of time to consider that, Tigress and I were attacked by more daedra, this time it was a group of Flame Atronach around us, throwing fireballs at us, Tigress and I quickly dispatched the enemies with our swords, then we headed for the nearest tower.

The interior of the tower also looked familiar, there was a winding stairway going up the tower, then there was a pillar in the middle where I could see numerous daedra stationed there to watch the stairway up. Those were sitting ducks for Tigress, she picked them off one by one with her arrows perfectly hitting their mark, piercing the necks of the daedra for the instant kill. I went ahead of Tigress, so the daedra were noticing me first, and I was fighting the ones that were actually on the stairway, I found a key on one of them that I knew we would eventually need. We made our way to the top of the tower where we found a cage with a man in it, the man was very badly burned, and when I looked closer I saw he was already dead. There was a hole in the ceiliing with a glowing light visible through it. There were also doors at both sides of the room, I checked the one closest to us and found it was locked. Sure enough, the key I had gotten off of the daedra fit the lock and the door swung open… to reveal an ambush of daedra summoners, and they summoned an ambush of scamps, and soon we found we were completely surrounded. Time to fight, run my sword through a scamp, behead a daedra summoner, slice a daedra summoner open from his left shoulder to his right hip, hit another daedra summoner with a bolt of lightning as I ran my sword through another scamp… Tigress and I fought our way through the room, killing all of the daedra in our path.

Tigress and I exited through the far side and went up another ramp to the top chamber of the tower. Reaching the top of the tower proved to be actually rather anti-climatic, there weren't even more of the usual daedra enemies let alone something that would qualify as a boss. The sigil stone was there, however, and there was a beam of energy shooting out of one of the windows towards the Oblivion gate down below. Tigress reached over and grasped the sigil stone, pulling it out of its place. The beam of energy to the Oblivion gate ceased, but the other two remained, seeming to be unaffected. I was looking at the energy from the Oblivion gate when it started going unstable, but before I could say anything about it Tigress had already spoken, saying the gate was going to explode if the other beams weren't stopped. That could either successfully close the gate or it might blast a permanent hole in the dimensional fabric and give the daedra a permanent access to Tamriel. So to make sure it didn't lead to that, I flew towards one of the other towers while Tigress flew towards the other one.

I reached the tower rather quickly by flying, entering through the same opening the energy beam was coming out of. The daedra must have seen me flying towards the tower, as there were a bunch of them in the top chamber waiting for me. I didn't want to take the time for all of them, however, the gate was getting more unstable all the time, so I used Enter Sandman in the room, the spiral pulled all of the daedra into it and then exploded, destroying the daedra in a large blast of dark and light flames. I hurried in and grabbed the sigil stone, causing the stream of energy from it to cease. I looked out of the tower at the Oblivion gate just in time to see the other beam also cease, and now the gate collapsed. I wondered if this gate wasn't so nice as to deposit people from Tamriel back in Tamriel, not that it would be a problem for Tigress and me, but it could be annoying for anyone trying to fight the daedra… A wave of energy came from the gate and washed over everything, a blinding light, and then Tigress and I were both in mid air… but for some reason we lowered to the ground slowly and landed gently on the ground. Nothing was left of the Oblivion gate but a hole in the ground, and I could see a lot of amazed Imperial guards standing around staring at us. I was going to say something to Tigress, but she disappeared. My time to go, too. I opened a portal back to the koi pond, not sure how much longer the dream would last, I just didn't want to try to explain things to the guards. I got back in time to take one more look to see if anyone was waiting for me at the koi pond before I woke.

Note: The only real plans I had this night was to meet up with Tigress for an Oblivion dream, although I still have continuing plans that have to do with the TotY and MoSh meeting up with don Juan, who says he wants to have continuing dreams with MoSh until MoSh can get the memories of the dream on his own rather than through me. He seems to think that is important. So with these things in mind I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on and slipped into a WILD…

I found myself starting this dream in the biodome by the koi pond. I wondered if there might be someone meeting me there… I stayed around for a while, looking to see if anyone might show up, but no one came. When I got to the point where I thought I might lose the dream if I continued doing nothing much longer I decided to head off to my next goal, which was to take MoSh to don Juan. I knew I hadn't arranged this with MoSh ahead of time, so I wasn't sure if he would be there, but it wouldn't be any extra trouble to check. I opened a portal and went through it into MoSh's inner world, into the front yard of his house.

When I stepped out of the portal I didn't see any sign of MoSh, but that isn't really that unusual since he's not usually there waiting for me to arrive. I went over to the door to the house and knocked, the door opened almost right away and I saw it was Asuka. She gave me a friendly greeting and said she hadn't been expecting me, thus there were no cookies, I said that was fine. I did some small talk with Asuka such as how is she doing, how are the kids doing, and then I asked her if MoSh was here. She said MoSh wasn't dreaming at the present time, but he could show up at any minute if I wanted to wait for him. I said I would wait for a short time, but if I spent much more of this dream doing basically nothing I was afraid I would lose lucidity or even lose the dream entirely. I didn't have to wait long, however, before MoSh appeared as if from nowhere. I told him he was dreaming and should do a reality check, he just looked at me strangely, then at Asuka. He pinched his nose and said he was not dreaming. I told him that he was, and I had come here to take him to go see don Juan. MoSh looked at me, looking much more interested now, he asked if I knew where don Juan was. I said I could most likely find him pretty easily. I had already told MoSh to do a reality check a couple of times, I didn't figure telling him more would do any good, so I opened a portal with the focus of finding don Juan.

MoSh and I emerged from the portal inside a building, it was pretty dark and I couldn't see much of what it was, but I did see don Juan was there looking at us as we entered. Don Juan looked at me and said he would be seeing me again soon, but this time was for MoSh alone. I was hoping I wasn't in the middle of something urgent when don Juan decided it was a good time to drop by, what if I was on my way to help someone and I was short on time, then instead of my portal tracking that person I ended up with don Juan… then someone got hurt or killed… Don Juan said that's not possible and I know it, since I can be on many planes at the same time. It seemed like he was waiting until I left, so I went through the portal back into MoSh's inner world and it closed behind me. I opened a portal back to the biodome, to the location beside the koi pond, figuring I would check there again before moving on to my next goal.

To be continued in the next post…

08/08/10

I'm part of a story in a familiar seeming place. Everything's happening out of order, events and dialogue added where I think the story needs it. As I wake up, I see the story written out on a word processor.

I wake up. As I fall back asleep, I enter HH. I'm a younger version of Dean Winchester, and there's something I still need to do. I'm still lucid, but I don't want to wake myself up, so I fall into the dream.

***

I'm a giant, fighting a tiny man as we climb up a water tower. I try to kick him off my foot, but he's holding on, trying to stab my toes.

***

I'm in prison. I'm sitting with a group of people, all handcuffed with zip-ties, our hands wound up in green mesh. My mom and dad are there, part of the dozen or so people jammed into the cell, sitting on the wooden benches where there's room.



Despite the lack of space, I'm not crowded on the bench. I'm also pretty much ignoring everyone in the room, now that the guards are gone. I'm concentrating on removing the zip-ties. I think I might have been chewing through them at some point, but with a flourish, I have them off my wrists. I hold onto the mess of plastic for a second, think about pretending I'm still trapped, but I let it fall to the floor. I'll take my chances.

Finally, we get our own cells. All of the doors are open, so I calmly walk over to the cell by the window and sit down on the bed. Originally, we were supposed to be sharing cells, but there aren't any bunk beds. There is no privacy; everything that isn't an outside wall is made of narrow bars, four inches apart. My mom takes the cell beside mine.

Lights out. A guard comes over to check that we're in bed. He stands too close, but I'm not worried. I sense no malevolence in him.

Which is fortunate, for his sake.

The guard shuffles away and I stand up, moving silently in the shadows. The locked door to my cell swings open of its own accord, and I walk, unnoticed, right out of the building.

***

I'm a hunter. Female, with long, curly black hair. I'm interviewing witnesses, trying to figure out what's going on in this town. Someone recognizes me from an earlier hunt, and claims I'm a cop.

***

Two versions of Dean Winchester sit at different tables at a restaurant. One is just barely older than the other. The younger one approaches him.

"You know, I've had a hell of a time since you got the cops after you again."

***



There are two versions of Dean Winchester, but the age difference is exaggerated. One of them is a child, and the other is an old man.

They're at the entrance of an old quanset on a farm, when I see a flash of something happening in the distance. Six plumes of light grey smoke fly from the ground and hurtle toward us.

Sam and Dean, about five and nine at the moment, are outside. A little piece of narration goes off in my head.

They're after the kids. Demons who steal away children that wander off on their own. It's part of the local folklore.

I'm hardly there at all, so the older Dean has to decide who to save: the younger Sam or the younger Dean. Of course he goes after Sam, and I stay inside, waiting, as the demons approach mini-Dean.

When they grab him, when they go hurtling through the air towards their base, I phase through the wall and take off after them.

"Omnipitus omundi patronus," I mutter to myself, sneaking into an old farmhouse. Wait, Patronus?

Just like that, I'm lucid. I smile, and crawl into the small entranceway. Bits of dust flake off of everything I touch, and I find myself crawling as the hallway gets smaller and smaller.

A woman attacks me out of nowhere. By all rights, I shouldn't be able to move in the small hallway I've wedged myself into. I won't consider myself trapped, though. I lash out, grabbing the woman by the jaw and the back of her head, and I twist.

The woman falls to the floor, her neck broken.

The house is normal sized again, and I walk into the bedroom, see the young Dean lie sprawled out over the bed. "Omnipitus omundi patronus," I repeat, but nothing happens. I sigh, and pick the boy up, ready to run him back to his brother and older self.

Claustrophobia. Scare Factor: 2.

01.08.2010

Drunk and Disorderly (WBTB)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

WBTB's. They really do work. I was only out of bed for about two minutes this morning, and flopped back down to sleep right away. I suppose that was enough to get my brain working properly.

The thought of getting up was enough to trigger a "preparation dream". Even though it was Sunday, I dreamt I was on my way to work. I got to the train station in the city centre in a taxi, and realised I was running late. There was a train I had to get, which was leaving in a couple of minutes. I threw my backpack over my shoulder and ran through the automatic doors. As I jogged through the station, I wondered why I felt so dizzy and undsteady. Was I out boozing last night? I couldn't remember. I got to a shiny area of floor and my feet came out from under me. I slid along the floor on my ass, into a plant pot. The people sitting on benches all around gave me disapproving looks.
"Yep, I'm definitely still drunk," I thought to myself.

For some reason, the dizziness got a whole lot worse now I was down on the floor. I tried to drag myself onto a chair, but it was an impossible task. I thought,
"Shit, why is this happening now, somebody's going to call the police on me or something. What a ridiculous situation, it's almost like..."

I looked at my hand. It was chubby and had about nine fingers. "Oh," I smiled. I turned to the disapproving onlookers and gave them the finger. Clarity was restored, along with my motor functions. I stood up and exited by the automatic doors. Walking straight out onto the road, I was immediately hit by a car. It was a big green jeep, and the impact left a huge dent in the bonnet. The driver, a middle-aged, balding man got out and started screaming at me. I flicked him through a shop window with telekenisis and got into the car. I may have eventually lost lucidity through driving around without purpose.

27.07.2010

Handless (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID



I had just "woken up" from a lucid dream, in my own bed. I could hear someone coming up the stairs outside my room. I think I dreamt of this because I was expecting visitors this morning. I was unbelievably drowsy. Getting out of bed was like swimming in treacle. There was a knock at my door. I stumbled over, and realised I was naked. This was enough to remind me to reality-check. I looked down at my hand. There was no hand. I saw no forearm or anything. But I could feel that I did indeed have one. I opened my bedroom door with said hand and saw a few of my friends from different places. People who have never met in real life. Some from work, others from my old school, some from elsewhere and my girlfriend- who was the actual visitor I was expecting. I was reminded of the first scene of The Matrix.

25.07.2010

Cuz This is Thriller! (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was excited about going to see Inception later, which was probably the reason for the easy DILDs this morning.

I was sitting in the back seat of my dad's car. My dad was sitting beside me. We were driving along a motorway at night, and the road was lit up orange by the streetlights. I glanced into the front of the car and saw that no one was driving! I panicked for a moment, then realised what was going on. Classic dreamsign. The car stopped itself and I stepped out onto the road. My dad had disappeared and I was on my own. Some electronic music started playing and I looked up at the sky. I could see some stars, but it was mainly black. I pointed up and traced my finger across the sky to create a shooting star, which zipped across my field of vision and over the horizon.

I came to a crossroads, and couldn't see anyone in any direction. I felt slightly lonely, so I pondered a way to get some company. I snapped my fingers a few times to create a beat, and Thriller started playing. I began to do the dance- and as I had hoped, a crowd of people appeared from nowhere to back me up. I laughed at the fact that it had actually worked, and kept on dancing.

Later on, I wound up sliding down some sand dunes on a rug. I was going pretty fast, heading for the sea. Right at the point where I hit the water, I realised my phone was still in my pocket. Wet phone, another classic. It crops up more and more these days. I stood up in the knee-deep water, a bit annoyed that my jeans were soaking wet, before levitating up in the air and shaking myself off. I spent a long time flying superman-style between small rocky islands in the shallows, but ended up back on the beach after a while.



Something strange was going on. There were people running back up the sand dunes, trying to get away from some woman. She was short, stout, and had her hair in a bun. She yelled after the people trying to escape, then produced a circular blade from her breast pocket. I realised she was about to throw it at them. As soon as it left her hand, I took control of it with telekinesis. I guided it round in a loop with my finger, like a boomerang, back at the woman. She screamed something unintelligible at me, and I lost control of the blade before it hit her. It stopped in mid-air, and shot off after the people again.
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked her threateningly. She simply glared at me and smiled as the blade sliced a few people up and went after more. I lifted her up by her collar. "Stop the blade, or I swear I'll kill you," I said. A few seconds passed with no reply from her, so I set her back down and ripped off her head with one tug. The body stood swaying, then a single spurt of blood shot out the top of the neck, and it fell backwards. "Warned her, like."

In a later dream, I found myself in a very close recreation of my old house. I think it was the place itself which turned me lucid. I opened the front door with a wave of my hand and stood on the step. It was evening, and a tiny car was driving past. I decided to race it down the street. I took off flying above it, at a fairly decent speed! I was surprised that I was able to fly quickly this time- without employing any real techniques.

18.07.2010

"We can't give the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a NOOB!" (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I haven't had a World of Warcraft-based dream in a while! Serenity should like this one.

I was exploring a frozen wilderness with some sort of companion who I cannot now remember. Whoever it was, was female. We were off at the side of a road, peering into a small cave which led underneath the road itself. It was a clear day, but bitterly cold. My companion told me the Lich King was likely to be in the vicinity, and that was the cause of the low temperature. I was a little concerned, but something glinting in a frozen pond just inside the cave caught my attention. I couldn't quite focus on it, even after focefully blinking a few times. I looked at my hand. It was completely fucked. A few fingers were melded into one, and several were missing altogether. Now more confident, I stepped over to the frozen pond to investigate. Beneath the ice was a sword. But not just any sword. I recognised it immediately as the one belonging to the Lich King himself. It was a huge two-hander, and the blade was glowing with a freezing blue aura. I punched though the ice and pulled it out. The handle was unbelievably cold.

I ran out of the cave with it, and found myself on a frozen lake. Then I remembered the last time I had seen this sword. I was watching the opening video for the WoW expansion- Wrath of the Lich King. The Lich King had used it to summon an enormous skeletal dragon. It was a lightbulb moment. I raised the sword high above my head, and thrust it down into the ice. The whole area started to shake, and cracks formed, zigzagging out from the sword. I stepped back cautiously. I'll post a video which basically shows just what happened.


Watch from 1:20

The dragon's head burst through the ice right below where I was standing, which threw me hundreds of metres up in the air. I got that roller coaster falling-feeling that I hate, so I slowed time down a bit to watch the dragon's emergence in slow motion. It clambered out of the ice, and I noticed that instead of the blue innards it had in that awesome video, it was glowing purple. I timed my fall carefully, and landed on its back, between the shoulder blades. I grasped two small bones in its neck, and pulled backwards. The dragon flapped its enormous wings and flew straight up. I leant forward and it flew forward. I think I forgot I was dreaming for the rest of this, but I flew around for a while burning settlements and decimating armies with the dragon's purple flame-breath.

12.07.2010

Run Back to Sleep (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was staying in my girlfriend's house, having partied hard the night before. I felt myself waking up and decided to prevent it.

I thought, "No way I'm letting myself wake up here, think of the hangover!" So I blocked out the feeling of my real body (which had passed out in a strange position anyway) and started running. At first I was just running along a nondescript flat surface, with very little feeling in my arms and legs. But after a few metres, the integration stepped up a notch. I was physically pumping my arms and legs, sprinting with full control of my body. As I looked around, I saw I was in a random street, not unlike the area I was staying in. I felt my real eyes moving to look around. But intstead of the back of my eyelids, I was seeing a non-existent street. I kept running until I was sure there was no chance of me waking up again.



It was strange to me that I was able to "run" back to sleep, run away from waking up. And it felt like real running. The brain was obviously telling the body to run like normal- but with sleep paralysis, a virtual body was substituted, although it felt no less real.

12.07.2010

What Should I See? (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I became lucid after I entered my house. The trigger was that I wasn't sure which of my houses it was. As in, I couldn't tell if it was my current or old house. I thought, "This is a classic dreamsign. Now which house is it supposed to be?" I looked around, trying to take everything in- to identify my surroundings. At the same time, I was half thinking about what both houses looked like. I got kind of a visual overload, with barely any focus on any scene- and I went into blackness.

Now normally, this is wake-up material. But I paused and kept a sense of my dream body, and pondered for a minute. I decided to be totally passive. Just look, and see what was there- not what I thought should be there. The hall of my old house reformed around me and I was back in.

20.06.2010

Clutter (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I've been getting less recall lately, and very little time whatsoever to write down dreams. It's the weekend now though, and I had a WILD this morning I thought I might as well share. I was lying on my back, and was pretty knackered, which I think helped the process along. Images and scenes were just floating through my brain for a while, which I just observed without much thought. When they became less disjointed and started running smoothly, I paid a bit more attention. I could see upstairs in my parents' room in my old house. I looked around and moved my focus out into the landing. Snap. Everything clicked into place and the clarity increased massively. It seemed like a light had just been switched on in the dreamworld. Everything looked very real, and I recognised lots of old objects I hadn't seen in years. I walked down the landing into my old bedroom, which was full of clutter. The table from my current conservatory was set up beside the window, and was covered in strange hand-made models- like the kind of things you used to make in school. I examined a few things. They seemed familiar, but I couldn't place them. There was a poster for what appeared to be a boxing tournament, but the writing didn't make any sense.

I looked out the window. The ground was wet, as if it had been raining earlier. I didn't know what to do with myself, so I climbed out the window onto the roof. From there, I ran and leapt off the roof, gliding at a slightly upwards angle across the street and over some houses. This is where it gets hard to remember. I think I went streaking at some kind of sporting event. I remember having to make 1000% sure I was dreaming before running out though.

08.06.2010

Broken Bones (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was in a very unconvincing supermarket when I did a reality-check. It was a dream, as I suspected. Everything seemed too shiny or something. I jumped onto the top of a tall shelf and started running from shelf to shelf, jumping between them. The end one wobbled when I stood on it, and I fell face first onto the tiles below. I literally faceplanted from over 5 metres up. My neck snapped back, and the back of my head touched my back. My lower body and legs bent over the top. There was quite a crunch. Then the shelf fell on me. I found the feeling interesting, and was glad to be able to have that experience in a dream rather than real life. That could've gotten ugly!

26.12.2008

Journey to the Underworld (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID




im in a field where theres a battle going on between a group of people im with and some monsters. i dont know what the fighting is about i just know that i need to help my friends. i glance up at a tree and there is a falcon looking down at me. i intuitively know hes there looking out for me. i raise my left arm and he flies down and lands on it. i think im happy hes talons didnt dig in too deep because im not wearing a gauntlet.

my little group is retreating and we get ambushed. my falcon glides towards one of the orcish looking monsters and tries to attack its face. the falcon gets clubbed down to the ground and i run over to rescue it. the monster is standing over the falcon and i "force hold" it in place why i levitate the falcon into my arms. we make our escape.

*jump*

with the falcon on my arm, im alone and walking through the woods again. a dog(forgot the breed) comes up to me and i feel he wants to guide me somewhere. the falcon flies off and i start following the dog through a maze of trees and brambles. after a short while i see a hyena sitting on the edge of the path and my first dog melts back into the woods. as i start following the hyena towards my destination, i see the falcon fly overhead in the direction were heading so i take that as a good sign.

at some point the hyena lays down on the path again and i lasso him trying to get him to come along but he wont budge. out of the body of the hyena, i pull a german shepherd puppy thats attached to the lasso that was around the hyena. i walk over and pick the puppy up and start walking down the path. the pup starts squirming in my arms so i put him down on the ground. by the time i do hes a full sized adult. as soon as that happens my falcon returns to me. i raise my right arm but he wont land on it and i feel a rebuke coming from him. i raise my left arm and he lands a little more forcefully than he did the first time he perched on my arm. abashed, i pet his head and back telling him im sorry. the shepherd leads us along the last bit of the trail in the woods.


we get to the edge of them and the sky is a blackish indigo on the horizon. it looks like an inky fog covering the sky, i perceive it to be some sort of veil. as i stare at the veil, a rocky jagged, shark toothed shaped, spire is growing from the ground. as that one is nearly full height, two more on either side of it are growing as well. my group of friends has returned to me now and we start walking towards this fenced in enclosure. its another maze and the german shepherd guides us through it unerringly.

were out of the maze and looking at a cave entrance. the group starts in and the ceiling is so low that we have to walk hunch backed. it gently slopes downward at first and then turns quite steep, but always heading straight down. theres a light at the end of the tunnel and we step out onto a ledge looking down into a seemingly bottomless pit. were in a circular, water well, type room. there are steps leading down off the right of the platform the descend into the darkness counterclockwise. we travel down the steps into the ever darkening gloom.

after what seems like hours, or maybe only seconds, we emerge into a well lit and empty hallway. there are lights on the walls as well as paintings, all wood floors, and 2 sets of oaken double doors on either side of the hallway. both are closed. at the end of the hallway is another stairwell leading down counterclockwise again. i stare around in wonder and then feel some presence.

something in me clicks and i can see many creatures filtering about. the double doors on the left are now open and i can see all kinds of elves, dwarves, fairies, pixies, and the like having some kind of party. as im looking through the doorway i hear an exasperated female voice behind me say "How can they see us!?". i turn around and see a male and female dwarf sitting at a table in front of the double doors on the right. the male is on the right and the female is on the left.

its hard for me to talk, i have a real bad stutter and it seems like my jaws just dont want to open. haltingly, i tell her i dont know, and explain to her that something just clicked and there everyone was. i end up having to explain it a couple times because of my stutter but she seems calmed by that and just kinda stares at me with mirth in her eyes. she opens the doors shes in front of and i see a bunch of people in an opium den like setting sitting around tables and talking. she explains to me that these are the people that have cheated?(something to that affect) because they took drugs to get here and theyre not allowed any farther.

she closes the door and i turn around to see a huge guy with white hair and a white beard looking at me. he radiates power. as soon as i see him, i lose the dream....



im in that space in between dreams upset that i couldnt hold my focus enough to keep the dream. i calm down and start imagining the woods again and slowly but surely i meld back into the dream.

....im back in the woods at the point where the german shepherd started guiding me. hes there but the falcon and hyena are nowhere to be seen. i follow the shepherd back through the woods and to the maze of chain link fence. i get through that again and start into the mouth of the cave. this time the descent doesnt take long at all and im back in the well like chamber spiraling down the steps.

i get back into the hallway and the female dwarf is sitting there and i go up to her and apologize stutteringly, telling her i lost the dream. she tells me its alright and that shes glad to see that i made it back. i pat her on the leg and we share a smile. out of the corner of my eye i see the white haired man again and i go up and shake his hand and apologize to him as well. he laughs it away and returns my handshake with a firm grip.

just then a group of people and fey people walk out of the double doors on the left. one walks up to the white haired guy and starts to greet him with his name. the white haired man cuts him off politely, saying that im not yet allowed to know his name. the other man nods his head knowingly and we all start walking down the hallway towards the steps. in my thick tongued stutter, i ask the white haired man if im allowed to call on him if i need to. he just gives me a little smile that i took as "what do you think?". the dream is starting to waver again so i start rubbing my hands together to help me to keep focus. it works, but as soon as i start walking down the steps at the end of the hallway i lose the dream again....



im back in the void. this time i picture the hallway with the double doors instead of the woods.



....im back in the hallway looking at the female dwarf again. i apologize again and tell her that i cant stick around because i dont know how long ill be there this time. she nods and i head to the stairs at the end of the hall. i make it down them, all the while rubbing my hands together slowly for focus. at the bottom of the stairs i emerge into a room. there are benches off to the right, desks with people working at them to the left, and a tall wooden bar(like where a judge would sit behind) in front of me.

theres a line of people standing 2 by 2, some i recognize, going into a door at the back right of the room. i see my friend "B" and i go up to and give her a hug. shes standing next to someone already and the other girl just smiles at me and allows me to take her place. were holding hands while waiting in line and talking about my work situation. she tells me that if i havent gotten a call from my union by friday, i should just suck it up and get an $8 an hour job. im a bit offended because that would be an $11 an hour pay cut. she tells me, rightfully, that its better than not working at all. i nod my head and agree with her. still holding hands and about 5 or 6 rows back from the door, the dream slowly fades away...

..EOD..

04.04.2007

Spaceship p1, Predator War Games, Spaceship p2 (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Spaceship part1

im on a spaceship with a bunch of other humans. were a team of some sorts. dont remember exactly what were supposed to be doing. the ship is built. im part of the test flight. theres apprehension and nervousness from me as were taking off. i hope it doesnt blow up. takeoff goes alright and were sailing off into the night... EOD

Predator War Games

im in a war type dreams. im part of some mercenary band. some of my team(me too?) is turned into some Predator type looking monsters. some people on the team dont want anyone else in the unit to know. towards the end of the dream were going to split up for some objective. as the other team is running through a narrow pass on the way to their mission, the leader of the second team tells me that theyd like the rest of the people to kno what happened to them.
they go and my team is set to leave through the pass. as we head out into the open i hear people from my 1st dream of the night telling me theyre ready. i tell my team ive gotta go and i start flying straight up into the air. for a split second i think about staying with my team and flying back to the ground. i decide not to and fly straight up threw the air as the dream dissolves around me.... EOD

Spaceship part2

im back aboard the spaceship again. it had to be totally rebuilt. apperently the engines got burnt out on a hot reentry by a couple of the team members that were fleeing some people. i hear that it happened over a month ago.

repairs are all made and were getting ready to start up again. something goes wrong down below so we all race downstairs to see what the problem was. a door, like a door for an ash catcher in a basement for a wood burning fireplade has opened and its venting some steam. one of the guys close the door and everything is good to go. we head back upstairs and are all standing or sitting around a big circular table. i look around at everyone and ask them if im the only one here that only comes here in their dreams. the lady thats standing next time me just gives me a coy little smile and i feel like im the butt of some good natured joke that i dont get.

somebody on the crew says something to the effect of how im only here once a month but whenever i do, ill always be welcome here. theres a great feeling of comraderie and love in the cabin of the ship. dream slowly fades away... EOD