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    A Clever Way Around a Zombie Apocalypse

    by , 02-13-2013 at 12:00 PM (724 Views)
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    Okay, this is a pretty cool dream, and I'm going to tell you why.
    During the day my mind was plagued with a certain predicament.
    Usually a nightmare is one thing, like a scary monster or a gangster who wants to kill you.
    Which is why I like calling them knightmares (so original), they're warriors of fear.
    But what happens when your nightmare isn't one thing?
    What if it's all around you?
    I'm talking about, of course, zombie apocalypses.
    Now I've experienced way more than a few of these, and here's what the difference is between them and regular nightmares.
    Say I become lucid when a gangster has a gun to my head.
    What do I do? Use telekinesis to snap his neck, nightmare over.
    But if you become lucid during a zombie apocalypse, what are you going to do?
    I mean, I'm sure any of you guys could just teleport to a different dream but I can't as of yet so bare with me.
    You could try and kill all the zombies you see, which you could do pretty easily.
    However, the world has still ended, there's no one around to interact with at all.
    You're doomed to forever wander the wastes.
    So, you haven't beaten the nightmare.
    Why? Because the fear from this nightmare doesn't even come from the zombies.
    It comes from knowing that you're alone, in a desolate world, where every human being who once lived wants you DEAD.
    The nightmare is literally the ground beneath your feet.
    Well, I guess you could just destroy that too.
    If you're for some reason powerful enough to summon a world ending black hole but not enough to make a portal to a happier place, that could solve your problem.
    I mean, the dream would either end or create a new scene.
    However I doubt anyone is like that.
    Passive control a cure that gets distributed?
    Maybe, but with my thinking mind I'd wonder, "How could they deliver a cure world wide when 90% of the population is either dead or zombified?" and that solution probably wouldn't work.
    So I had reached an impasse, even if I become lucid during a zombie apocalypse (which I have), there's no real way to stop it.
    I mean, I wouldn't be as scared but I still couldn't say I beat the nightmare.
    Or so I thought.
    This train of thought happened to leak into my dreams, causing, why yes, a zombie apocalypse dream, and my theory was put to the test.


    February 7th 2013

    I'm running away from some zombies with a couple others.
    We were ambushed by some earlier and are trying our best to get away from them.
    We get to a clearing but more zombies emerge from the trees.
    We run the other direction and are ambushed by more, we ran right into a horde.
    I'm being chased by multiple zombies now and am running for my life.


    "Oh christ, I gotta do something fast!" I think to myself.

    I start to try think up a way out of my current predicament.

    "I'm not being chased by zombies, I'm on the set of the walking dead!"

    I will this to be true with every fiber of my being and it is made so.
    I continue running but now I see cameras on cranes of to the sides and a director sitting on his chair.
    Realizing that the zombies are just actors I decide to get close to one to see how they look since obviously they won't try to grab me or anything.
    I see the face of one, she has a greenish greyish complexion with crazy brown hair sticking out in all directions, her eyes look blood shot and dead, but otherwise she look like a regular person.
    I veer off to one side and see a zombie without the top part of his head.
    It looks so real that it actually scares me. I head off.
    I can see one of my friends, who I believe is Shane, and decide to follow him down a path.
    I come to a fork in the path and run down the wrong way.
    I can hear the director yell in the background.

    "Go the other way!"

    I did this purposely to test just how real this reality I had created on the spot was, and whether or not the nightmare would return.
    But it didn't, I'm still on set,
    which means I have to keep running or the director's gonna get pissed! I veer off back to follow Shane.

    "There you are!" He calls to me.

    We continue to run down into an alley way and scene is over.

    "Cut!"

    The alley way is where the director is, along with a couple other actors.
    Among them is the guy who plays rick.



    Yeah, so that's a simple solution to the problem, use passive control to make yourself be on the set of a zombie movie/tv show.
    Though, since I was semi-lucid I had a lot more power than I do regularly.
    In hindsight I should have given that whole theory more thought.
    However, dream me seems to think best on his feet.
    Also, the reason I became semi-lucid is because Zombie Apocalypses are a dream sign that even dream me recognizes.
    Well once again my conjecture is longer than my actual dream. Damn.
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    Updated 02-13-2013 at 02:43 PM by 61016

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    Comments

    1. MysticalDipshit's Avatar
      This is a really good idea. About 80% of my dreams have this theme. Either a zombie apocalypse, or being hunted down by organizations, things that involve a whole world, rather than just 1 person. Such as last night, I was locked in prison with Hitler, and we were enemies. We both escaped, and he sent an army to hunt me down, so I was constantly trying to escape. So pretending it is a film set it pretty good. I'm kinda inexperienced at LDing, so I can't control whole worlds yet either. I'll try this next time I'm in a LD, thanks
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    2. HippieAu's Avatar
      Wow, glad to know my advice actually helped someone
    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      That's an outstanding approach, HippieAu. What's great about what you're doing here is that even though you are fundamentally transforming the entire planet, you're doing it in a way that flows with the dream.

      Rather than trying to brute-force some kind of cataclysmic change (and likely destabilize your dream or initiate unintended consequences), you simply accept the dream as it is and flow with it, gently nudging it onto the trajectory that you want. Flowing like water -- that's the way to do it!

      The hardest part is building the self-awareness to react without panic and come up with a good subtle plan to exercise this kind of dream jiu-jitsu. This is easier in some dreams than others, but it's a challenge I know that I continue to face. Great work!
    4. HippieAu's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by CanisLucidus
      That's an outstanding approach, HippieAu. What's great about what you're doing here is that even though you are fundamentally transforming the entire planet, you're doing it in a way that flows with the dream.

      Rather than trying to brute-force some kind of cataclysmic change (and likely destabilize your dream or initiate unintended consequences), you simply accept the dream as it is and flow with it, gently nudging it onto the trajectory that you want. Flowing like water -- that's the way to do it!

      The hardest part is building the self-awareness to react without panic and come up with a good subtle plan to exercise this kind of dream jiu-jitsu. This is easier in some dreams than others, but it's a challenge I know that I continue to face. Great work!
      Wow thanks. But once again, I kind of just acted out of some unfound instinct. I thought, this situation is bad, let's change it, and then out of nowhere thought to make it a movie set. I could never come up with it while awake, but dream me seems to be ahead of the curve.