non-lucid

Date: 31/08/11
Time: -
Memory Clarity: 4/10

-I was in some kind of generic area, and I was the apprentice of Durzo Blint, legendary assassin from the 'Night Angel' trilogy. A female character (possibly another character from the books) attacked me, and I had to defend myself. At first it seemed hopeless, as she was a tough fighter, but then I remembered/realised that I was Durzo's apprentice and therefore extremely well-trained. I fought back better then, however still suffered some deep cuts in my hands. Someone else intervened and decapitated the aggressing female.
It was cool to be fighting in a dream, and I noticed that I felt no pain, more of a shock when my hands were cut.
-I'm in the wings of a hall, where a presentation is underway. With me was a man who seemed to be a school principal/general authority figure, and he was using his finger to scrape a greasy resin off of a radiator and sniffing it desperately, like an alcoholic scouring the dregs of his long-gone drink.
I don't know what to make of this fragment, quite bizarre, really.
-I'm at a school similar to a school where I go to take certain classes. I'm either with, or am watching some people, as they greet another boy whom I recognise as some kind of acquaintance, e.g. from my soccer team or something along those lines. He is tallish, pale, with white blond curly hair. His name was mentioned but I can't remember it.
Nothing too interesting here, although worth mentioning in that I had previously seen someone similar to that description in real life, walking down the street.
-I'm on a baseball pitch, on the fielding team. The people playing are mostly random, but some I recognised from my soccer team, including the coach's assistant, who was a coach in the dream. Not knowing much about how to field in baseball, I take whatever position seems empty - to the right of the shortstop. However, my team-mates tell me to go and stand in left outfield, near 3rd base and I do so. A fairly average game of baseball ensues, except that the ball is a large, unwieldy, misshapen hunk of leather.
Baseball, fuelled by the lack of baseball know-how only an Australian could have...
-I'm lucid, however my surroundings are very unclear and are comprised of dark, multi-coloured, fuzzy shapes. I attempt to clear up the dream, saying things along the lines of 'Clearer!', and it works slightly, increasing the 'resolution' of the shapes so that they are well-defined, but the surroundings remain just as nonsensical. In my frustration, the dream dissolves.
This one annoyed me, but interestingly enough, it was a well-performed WILD, which I'd never done before. Just lying there and descending into the dream while maintaining my awareness. If anything, this gives me hope for repeated instances.

Date: 30/08/11
Time: Some time around 3:30am
Memory Clarity: 2/10

So I was in an area where I used to hang out at school, with some friends. We were in the process of cleaning small, living gummy fishes, putting them in bags and then doing something else with them. I then left the area after doing this for an unspecified amount of time, and walked to another area of the school, where a small table was there with cupcakes on top. There were some people milling about, so I took the cupcakes and handed them around. Someone had left a katana (samurai sword) on the table, and it was at this point that I realised that I was, in fact, a samurai, with my own sword. There was a person there asking everyone if the sword was theirs, so I volunteered to safeguard it for the moment, and put it in my belt opposite my own sword. However, an acquaintance from school then came and offered to do the same. It all worked out though, because there was another sword there, so we had one each.

That was all, nothing of great importance.

10-12FEB2011
Have begun researching the Eather in depth now. First night of attempted OBE resulted no felt vibration, attempted 8 times before succumbing to sleep. Second night resulted in felt vibration but no ejection. Believe root cause is duality of minds paradox and not being able to consciously release the double. Clinging to a single consciousness. Attempted again the 12th, no felt vibrations what so ever.

13-14FEB2011
attempted another cycle of OBE but did not reach vibration stage on the night of the 13th. Night of the 14th almost reached vibration stage. I was very aware, even able to move my physical body slightly- at least I think it was my physical body. Vibration stage did not give way to OBE however. Will attempt again tomorrow night.

03APR2011
Still no ejection and no felt vibrations (at least not as strongly as the first time). Still attempting at least biweekly since 14FEB2011. Will continue to research in addition to practice. Will look into the Isreali Regardi method.

Note: I have been extremely busy lately, not having much of any time to journal dreams, so these are dreams from the past several nights.

Fooled Again, The Lost Mew
I am meeting my ex boyfriend James at his apartment, it seems he has wanted to meet in person. I have finally agreed to do so. I am waiting there for him in the living room, he has stepped out for a few minutes, and I am looking around the room at all of the things he has there. Mostly collectable toys. Predominantly Transformers and Star Wars toys set up in some very interesting displays. James returns to the room, and I notice he is dressed very nicely as if for a hot date. He takes out a single red rose and hands it to me, the rose smells almost intoxicating.

Damn, I think, he has never been this romantic when I was dating him! I start to wonder if he has broken up with his wife and is expecting I will be dumb enough to trust him again… which I know I couldn't do even if I really wanted to. I need to step away to clear my mind, I go to the bathroom. I have to pee. The toilet is broken, so what now? I pee in the sink, thinking James probably doesn't have the money for a plumber. I completely rinse the sink down and wash my hands before returning. Tina is now there with James, and I immediately know they are up to something and I am the butt of their latest joke. I tell James to get fucked and leave the apartment, feeling mad at both him for doing it and me for falling for it… or almost falling for it. I walk down the halls of the apartment for a bit, I find MoSh also lives in this apartment. He is out in the halls looking for his mew. He seems mad at me for not finding his mew yet. I say I'll help him find his mew. We search, I am climbing up on stair railings and into other odd places to reach other odd places such as ventilation shafts where I can look for the mew. A couple times I end up in a tight spot and I have to turn back. In one tight spot, however, I pull out a mew.

I take the mew back to MoSh. I think he'll be happy, but he still seems mad at me for taking too long. I am depressed. I pull out my cell phone and think I can call a friend. Should I call Alicia or Tigress? I am thinking I'm not sure if I should bother either of them with my problems…

Murder by Mail
I am in a hospital of some kind, but this time I am not there to work a job at the hospital. What I am doing is trying to solve a murder, we know the suspect is somewhere in the hospital, but not exactly where. I am with my supervising detective, who just happens to be Horatio Cane off of CSI Miami, sunglasses and all.

We go over to the reception desk, and I look around for any clue that might have been accidentally left in sight. Horatio approaches the man at the desk and takes off his sunglasses before fixing the man with a firm gaze and stating that the man already knows why we are there. The man plays dumb and says he has no idea, even I can tell he is lying. The mail carrier comes in and puts some stuff on the desk in front of the man, who tries to get Horatio to go away because he is busy. That is completely ineffective, instead Horatio insists on talking to the man in private. The man glances nervously at a small package that was delivered with the mail. He then goes when Horatio gets more insistent, saying the alternative is they go downtown to discuss this. I look over at the small package, I want to know what is in it. I go over to take it but I see there are people watching. I look at it, but I can't see where it is from even. The man and Horatio return, Horatio says we will search… starting with the front desk. He produces a warrant. I take the small box now and open it, the man gets annoyed. There is a strange puzzle game inside it… though the man seems really upset that I saw it. Horatio is looking at a surveillance video with a really grainy and crappy picture. He asks if I can enhance the video quality to make the person in the video identifiable. I use a computer I have in my pocket to link in and do it remotely somehow. The man in the video is the man at the desk. He tries to run, but he is also a rather fat guy and makes a very clumsy effort to run… Horatio arrests him. I look at the novelty game a bit more, and I discover it is broken. I wonder why it was so important to that man…

Staying On Track
I am at my current house, and I am there with my ex boyfriend. He says he will spring for pizza if I go pick it up, and I think pizza sounds good, so I agree to do that. He says I'll have to ride my bike down there so he can pick me up on his way back to the house. He says he has to go home to get something quick. I tell him that is bullshit, I can drive myself down there and get the pizza and drive back… and if he wants a ride to his place, I can drop him there on the way and pick him up on the way back. He says no, and I really should ride my bike. I leave in the car and drive to Pizza Hut to pick up pizza. I find that Pizza Hut also sells a bunch of other stuff, a lot of toys and candy, but I just pick up the pizza. On the way back home I have to wait for a train and I start eating pizza while I wait, I rearrange the remaining pieces of pizza to cover the fact there is a piece missing. When I get home there is a train track right in front of our gate to our yard… um… where did that come from? I enter the yard and find I have to cross several more sets of tracks just to get to the carport. There are several train routes going right through our yard! I notice one of the tracks runs right along our porch in such a way it looks like the porch could be used for a boarding platform.

I see a train coming and I am prepared to see how loud it will be… but it diverts onto a different track before it reaches the house. I notice it is getting dark, and I see James coming back. He is at the gate, so I open it. He starts to drive in but then gets stuck on one of the tracks. When he tries to get off, he gets turned around strangely and drives down one of the tracks and out of the yard. I wonder where he's going to end up…

Kidnapped
I am at a neighbor's house, and it turns out that Alicia's friend Anita lives there with her children. In waking life Anita has two boys, but in the dream Anita has two boys and a little girl about 8 years old. I am over at Anita's house hanging out with Anita and Alicia. There is a storm starting up outside, Alicia says she needs to get home, and she leaves. I am about to leave when it turns up that the little girl is missing. It seems everyone went out for a picnic today and the girl is now gone. Everyone is worried about her, there is talk of a child molester in the area, and fear that he has taken the girl. So we start looking for any trace of the girl, though I figure if the molester has her then there isn't really much chance of finding her around the house. I am searching through some areas of the house that seem more like an old warehouse than anything. I hear someone in there, and I see a creepy guy heading out the back way. I follow him outside into the storm, and then around to the back of the house. He is the primary suspect in the child molestation kidnapping cases. He stops and I confront him directly, telling him to tell me where the girl is, and tell me now. He motions me closer and I do so, waiting for him to speak. Instead he stabs me in the gut with a knife he had hidden in his sleeve. The wound has very little effect on me, which shocks the man. I respond by driving my hidden blade into his side. I ask him again where the girl is. He says this is impossible. I stab him again, where is she? He finally tells me where she is, he says she's in the wood pile, but we'll never reach her before the water in the river rises and she drowns. He laughs maniacally… My next stab to his throat shuts him up. I hurry towards the river where I know there is a pile of wood being stored. The water has almost reached the wood. I start moving the wood pieces with strength I didn't know I had, and I find the girl pinned near the bottom, alive. I pull her out and take her back to the house, out of the storm. Everyone is so happy to see her, but it is time for me to go home. The shoes I have on are falling apart, I can't walk in them anymore, and I have to walk home. I look around for what I thought was a long time, thinking I had a spare pair somewhere around there. I can't find them. I do find a pair of pink boots that are Alicia's. I decide I can wear those and return them to Alicia the next time I see her. They fit perfectly. I put them on and get ready to leave for home.

30.08.2011

Kicked off the Team (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

My dream starts with me playing a video game that has space travel, sword combat and looking for different species of life in my logbook(a little like the game Metroid Prime). After i play for a while the game transitions to the basement under my dad's store. I find a girl wearing a towel talking to her friends. They were talking about her finding the right guy for her. When I came in the group started teasing her about me and her going out. A friend of her said "look who's here," in a sarcastic tone. I wave at the girl but the setting changes again. I now am at a athletic center similar to the one at my old college. One of my teammates tells me we have to change for practice so i grab my gym bag and change on the spot. One guy warns me not to change in front of entrance. I turned around and saw the coach's daughters and other girls watching us, so i walk to the other side of the place near alot of seats. I change into my karate gi and saw that a friend of mine from high school was there too (He doesn't go to my college, I didn't think anything of it though). Later my coach tells us to run somewhere and not to bring our bags with us. The next thing I know is that i taking my bag with me, i get thrown off the team immediately for that reason. I leave my bag(i forgot about it) and went outside to take a walk. While walking my vision gets distorted for a moment and I lose my balance for that moment in time. The setting gets really clear and i notice something is weird, so i did a nose RC and it failed I get confusedand surprised for a second but I realized i was dreaming. I stabilize by feeling out the enviornment i felt the wind go past me, the sounds of people talking and walking around me, etc. I'm standing on a sidewalk looking at my surroundings. The houses in front me were in really good detail. I also can see some mountains in the background. i talk to a couple DCs and we decide to go on a road trip to a amusement park. my lucidity drops a little but i still feel like i have control. We get into a car which appears like in 90s Honda civic. One guy looks annoyed because I joined their group but i didn't pay much mind. Then we go through a palce that sells car merchandise. Being nice i tell the driver that I could give him all the stuff for free, he thanks me. We never get to the amusement park.

This is one weird dream I had last night...so here it goes.
I was living in an old house in my old neighborhood I use to reside in as a very small child.. everything appeared the same. My friend Michelle was there who I know now and she was suppose to watch over my place. I gave her the number of where she could reach me if anything happened. I kept looking out the window and just noticed a bunch of trees.. nothing else just trees I just kept looking... the scene switches to me back in the house and I saw these weird shapes hanging from the ceiling and they were placed apart but covered the entire ceiling in the kitchen area.. I was disgusted by the smell too which was weird.. and Michelle was standing there looking real scared.. I said " What the hell is this on the ceiling??" she said she doesn't know.. These things were covered with paint.. so I take the broom and hit one and it broke falling to the floor.. it was human feces!!! whyyyyyy??????! I get real upset and demand for her to tell me what is going on.. she starts to panic telling me someone asked her for the keys to my place but she didn't want to tell me because she was scared of them..I immediately call the cops they tell me they are on their way.. she sits down crying and she starts to describe the person.. I immediately say the name of the person she describes "Kelly".. but I really don't know a kelly in real life
So the cops come over and see the dung hanging from the ceiling and start getting on their computers searching for this person named kelly.. who riddled my kitchen ceiling with feces.. one of the cops was good looking and bald said " don't worry we will find her and have her do some serious cleaning".. that instant I felt relief.. like " yep she is going to clean up all this Sh*t"..
I woke up.

*Now I wonder what it means to dream of dung/feces.. this is weird because I don't ever recall having such a dream before.. I told this to a co worker of mine which told me it meant luck.. but another friend of mine told me it could mean something in my life I am not letting go.. strange..*

I was sitting in a chair, in a 'business office meeting'. Eight men were sitting in a quarter circle in front of me. I had a suitcase, and they wanted it. I was playing around with them about the price, but still kept in mind that they could brutally kill me and molest my body at any time. I noticed that they had women service them, apparently against their will.
The meeting got called off and I went to the bathroom. It was the same bathroom as at home, except the door was in the other corner of the room and the bathtub in front of it was gone.
[If any children are watching this, take in mind, things are about to get weird/erotic.]

Spoiler for read the rest:

In there, I saw 2 hot brunette chicks. Supposedly one of them was one of the slaves, and the other one - a bit older - was her supervisor. I started brushing my teeth while trying to act completely normal while the two did the weirdest stuff.
The slave had been trying to escape, and she now needed.. punishment! I must have had the weirdest expression on my face, as the supervisor started teasing by touching the slave's breasts. It felt like I was the one touching them, and it felt great. Unnaturally great. It felt like I was jizzing in my pants simply from touching them, even though I wasn't touching them. So I was jizzing in my pants from watching someone touch them. Must've been some damn epic breasts. They looked at me in a teasing way as if they wanted me to join in on the fun. The supervisor pulled out a scissor and started cutting the slave's bra-strings. Slowly.. halfway..
"Okay fuck this, I'm not going to watch you violate her!" I said and stormed out of the bathroom. (Wait.. WHAT? NO!)
I went into the kitchen which also looked like at home, and continued brushing my teeth. While standing there, I looked at myself in the dark window's reflection. My face was flawless. Smooth skin, pretty eyes, no nose(?), I pretty much looked like Voldemort, but smoother skin and without a "=" in the middle of my face. My face changed constantly, from smooth to bloody skin, from bloody to dark. I changed my mind and decided to go back to the ladies. The bathroom was dark and empty however. I was disappointed.

I was in this really cool craft store with my cousins. It looked like a Micheal's and was all white inside. Most of the shelves were empty, but it was so huge that there was still a lot of cool stuff. I really wanted to shop, but my aunt made me carry their pet pig around the whole time (no they don't have one irl lol). It was black and probably 2 feet long, quite fat and really heavy. I was having a hard time picking it up, and my aunt was showing me how to hold it. I ended up carrying it like a cat, and then it was happy and started purring.

I was finally able to put it down when they were done, and started looking at things. Some of the lights started shutting off, I looked outside and it was dark. Everyone was looking at me, and I finally asked, "..is the store closed?" I was informed that yes, it was closing, and the owners were waiting for us to leave. I was kind of mad because I hadn't been able to shop, so I said I'd just go really quickly.

I found these bags of 700 mixed matte pony beads in red, yellow, green and blue for really cheap, so I grabbed one. Next to them there was a bucket of animal shape beads in different colours, another bucket of these bright and glittery plastic rings, and a few other buckets like that as well. You could fill a bag with that stuff and pay by weight, like at a candy store. I decided I'd go back a bit later and get some.

I kept going and found these giant plastic moustache shapes hanging up, they were probably 1.5 feet long and came in a bunch of colours. I remember seeing brown, neon orange, and glittery green. I was half considering putting one on a necklace, but whoever was there with me saw me looking at them and smiling and was like "no, those are not cool lol". I decided to move on.

Next I came across a rack that had hanging furry tails that were labelled "Unicorn Tails". They were probably about a meter long, had a clip at the top, were white until the last couple inches, then had rainbow stripes at the end. I grabbed one and clipped it to the back of my pants to see what it was like, then turned around to look at it. Turns out when you clipped it on, it curved back upwards about halfway. The end of the tail was at around the level of where it as clipped on, and there was a white plastic unicorn head on it. It looked really weird, but me and whoever I was with thought it was cool and started laughing.

ALL MY DREAMS FROM THE WEEKEND GOT DELETED FROM MY PHONE! !! Effing HELL! >=( Here's todays at least. :/


Allenn and I had decided to split up and just be friends ( I contribute the dream starting this way to a minor fight we had before bed last night). We were both okay with the decision but we both wanted "custody" of our dog Baron. We decided to do normal day activities together with baron as we would have as a couple. Even through baron looked the same and was still a dog, it felt more like he was a baby. Allen was carrying baron (who btw is a pug) by wearing a front baby pack like in the one in "the hangover". We were leaving a grocery store and I was putting stuff in my car. Allen had stopped to flirt with some girl putting away her cart and I just rolled my eyes. We then go to a mall. There is a really big electronic store with tons of neat gadgets. Allen and I are playing with a flying plane for a while and running around the store. We set baron down and let him chase after the plane. Its super cute and were laughing a lot. (dream sign: all the walls and floors are white). Allen and I then check out some weird robot thing that is serving people "tab" soda. It looked like it would have been super high tech in the 70's but now was just kind of ridiculous. We realized we didn't have baron anymore and we started to look for him by crawling on the ground and calling out barons name in weird voices. We are cracking up laughing at eachother and were both not worried about baron being missing because we are certain we will find him. Baron comes running up to me with his tongue out and I scoop him up. We leave the store and we get in my car. Allen is the one driving now. I am not sure but I think we are nolonger broken up here. We both somehow knew that we were back together without us ever saying a word about it. Allen leans over to give me a kiss on the cheek. I smile. Then I remember that I had money in my wallet. I pull out some pink money and I knew the total was $2,200. I was really excited! I wasn't sure how I got it but I knew it was mine. Allen was excited for me and asked me to buy him another staff. I rolled my eyes but decided I would as a surprise. I recognized the street were on. Its northup, the one by my place.

Was traveling with allen, leo, dina, and gherman. First we stopped in ireland. I can't remember to much that happened here. We stayed in a really cool little place with red lighting. Their were Persian rugs on the walls and tons of oversized pillows on the floor. There were absolutely no windows. In the center of the room was a hookah on a wooden table, much like the round one I have at home. We all sat around it. Allen was laying underneath an archway with a hookah hose hanging out of his mouth while he was saying something funny. Me and leo were laughing a lot. German was dancing in a corner by himself. We did some traveling in the city but its mostly a blurs of us walking down streets. Next stop, italy. We get there and its really sunny out. Hoaggieville for some reason is there. I get super excited and order a few sandwiches. I finish them and I go back to get 8 more to eat later. Allen is making fun of my for being so obsessed but I don't care. Next were all planning on going to a movie theater. Allens ex girlfriend is suddenly with us and I fell tense. I saw something random and she calls me a total idiot. I was shocked at her rudeness. I say id rather be an idiot then a total Bitch and she laughs it off sarcastically. Allen is sitting at my side. Though he doesn't stick up for me, he is snuggling me, wrapping his arms around me and resting his head on my shoulder. I felt really good that he was showing me so much affection in front of her. We get to the movie theater and she it still with us, still being a Bitch but allen is kissing me and is all over me so I don't even care that she is there. She starts to cry and then she leaves. We all chanted when she left because she was irritating everyone. Allen decides that he doesn't want to are the movie anymore but wants to be outside in the sun and i agree. We sit on some bean bags outside together and snuggle while looking at a view of hills.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Good morning! Lately I've been dreaming alot about having arguments with people, or just having a fight. Quite annoying.

22.30: Sleep

05.10: Douche bro
I'm getting ready to go to work. My bro is giving me a ride and he's waiting for me outside of the house. I have to make sure my younger brother is set before I leave him though, and the last thing I do is hand him the remote to the TV. I get out of the door and the car is gone. That son of a... I try to call him on my cell, but I'm out of cash. I try to refill it through the phone but I remember that it's broken. Crap!

The dream skips. I'm at work, talking to a few coworkers. One of them, Stefan, was in the car with my brother. I find my brother and slap him on the back, asking why he didn't wait for me. A fight hangs in the air.

05.10: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 6½ hours

Supplements: None

That's it! Boring dream. Hopefully I'll have a nicer one tonight.

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Ok so, i only remember 2 dream fragments from my childhood.... one was a nightmare the other i was lucid and fighting ninjas

-nightmare-
all i remember was being terrafied every night from this dream, it was 4 faces, demonic looking... kinda cool to be honest, and it was really dark, and lots of screaming as if someone was being tortured in the background. then i woke up... im sure there was more but i was like 8.. this may have bin what made me go lucid for my next fragment, or its a totally other dream... i have no idea

-Lucid ninja fighting -

Ok, this was my first, and ONLY lucid, i dont count it in my lucid count because i was like 8 and had no idea i could even do that... infact for all these years i thought i couldent dream anymore xD so it was a small japanese like road with temple looking building in the background and it looked kinda like the buildings in afro ninja looked like and there where ninjas, they wore straw hats and blue and black clothing... then i kicked there asses. xD thats all i remember

August 30, 2011

I have a ton of fragments and two dreams which one of I have forgotten.

The dream that I remember, I was basically watching an anime. A blond guy was walking and some kid (can't remember if male or female but pretty sure it was male) knock him on his face. Getting up the blond guy had a bloody face which must have scared the crap out of the kid as he got on his bike and took off as fast as he could.

The blond guy chase after him and right when the kid about to hit the giant (about the size of a big screen TV if not bigger) puddle a rock flew from his back tire and hit the blond guy in the face.

I heard someone said "OMG God got hit by a rock!" as if it was a group of friends watching an anime.

The blond kid fell face first into the water and while still face first in it he said "do you want to grab a beer?" with of course bubbles coming up and making it hard to understand.

Later the two was at a bar drinking and it was mostly quite.

I was at some kind of performance. I understood that the members of my IPRO team had all selected songs to describe themselves. They were performing them on stage in front of the rest of the team. Amar and I walked down to the front of the auditorium to find a couple of free seats. Autumn showed up and sat down next to me. For some reason, a number of people brought props from the Sword of Truth series or dedicated their songs to Richard Rahl. I wasn’t sure why this kept happening, but it was amusing. I clapped when I saw each of them refer to the series. Two people trying to walk past each other in the aisle got stuck, and I suggested folding their props in half so they could squeeze by, but neither of them did it.

A dog of some kind put its head in Autumn’s lap. When I tried to pet it, its eyes turned red. It snarled viciously at me. She explained that it had a poor first impression of me… I tried to ignore it, but now that I had angered it, the dog started lashing out at me. It ended up pushing me to the ground, and I barely kept it from tearing my face apart. I was puzzled when the animal suddenly gave up and trotted away. While the performances continued, I feared that Limia would ask me to sing something… I had missed the day when we picked our songs, so I hadn’t rehearsed anything. If I had to, I could always sing Happy Birthday to the audience. The list of music I knew by heart was pitifully short and consisted mostly of children’s songs.

I was in my dorm room. It seemed that the world was going to collapse, destroying the souls of everyone in it. The only way to save them was to take them to another world entirely. Although I don’t recall doing it, I knew I had created a portal for them in my room to take them to Nyre. It was the safest place I could offer them. People ran through the portal in desperation. As I explained it to Autumn, we could save everyone who wasn’t actively dreaming up the “waking” world. In the end, it would only be as stable as the dreams of the last person dreaming it – probably not stable at all. Autumn was clearly worried that I would try to save everyone from the world’s collapse. I ran into the room connected to mine and warned everyone there that time was running out. They had a matter of minutes to escape. I checked the bathroom and found a little girl being attacked by shadow creatures. They pinned her to the wall.

Drawing Apheri in a swift motion, I tore through the shadow beings and banished them from our world. The little girl threw her arms around me on the verge of tears. I reassured her and brought her back to my room where the portal awaited. With Autumn’s help, I convinced her to go through to Nyre. The other portals I’d created around the world were allowing billions of people to escape the crumbling world, but the number of people I expected to die with Earth was still enormous. Some of them refused to believe it was happening.

“I have to try to save them,” I told Autumn. She grabbed my arm.

“You don’t have time,” she replied. “Four minutes won’t be enough.” I almost argued, but when I thought about it, I realized she was right. I would die with the rest of them if I stayed here too long, and then what would become of Nyre? Perhaps it would collapse just like Earth. I gave in and joined her in stepping through the gray-blue rift.

The dream jumped. Autumn and I sat on the back of a riding lawn mower with my grandpa. After coming to Nyre, he found an enormous plantation and built a house. It seemed like a lot of land for him to take care of… He was living his dream, so he didn’t mind the work. We accompanied him back to his house before going our separate ways. Autumn and I wanted to find the people we saved in Illinois. I also wanted to make sure no one had found Nocturn Isle. I couldn’t trust Earth’s society with Symphony. Autumn didn’t want to drive, so I agreed to it. A light snowstorm blew in as we departed.

I was playing on WMBRO. The character rankings indicated that there were four level 194 players. I observed that one of them was a thief, and another was a novice. I couldn’t imagine how such a thing was possible. There were at least two new game masters who announced random things while I walked around on my character. Autumn voiced her suspicions that these high level characters belonged to the game masters. How else would they have leveled so quickly?

I wandered into a dungeon that combined elements of the Toy Factory with Glastheim. An abysmal knight and at least thirty other monsters attacked me in a swarm, but I was able to destroy them with ease. I sensed that I was using the wrong arrows, though, so I wanted a chance to switch them… Unfortunately, the monsters just kept coming, and I intended to pick up the items dropped by the abysmal knight first. It died, but so did fifteen other things standing in the same spot, so distinguishing the abysmal knight’s loot from everything else was impossible. The items disappeared before I even made it over there. After I killed all of the monsters on-screen, a game master teleported to me. He apologized for any latency and explained that the server was under maintenance. I didn’t care at all about that… The only problem I had with the server at the moment was the mysterious appearance of so many high level characters without the capacity to level quickly. I walked past the game master without speaking to him. Further into the dungeon, I found the other new game master standing idle. I didn’t speak to him, either.