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    In love & falling

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    NyxCC
    , 09-29-2013 at 07:19 PM (968 Views)
    Date: 19 Sept

    Pre bed: 200mg valerian

    WBTB: 60 mg caffeine (RB)

    Non-ld fragment: I am trying to take a shortcut at night in this familiar from previous dreams city. In one of the dark streets, I run into criminal DCs with very bad teeth. A number of young people sitting on a bench agree to defend me if necessary and I go sit there. I find one of the guys extremely beautiful. We talk for a while, but they are leaving soon. I notice that his whole body is covered with small, shiny clear droplets of water and stare in fascination.

    In love: Very deep sleep and my recall is not very good.

    We are moving in the dorms because it is much cheaper. There are six beds in the room and a guy who already lives here. I ask if only two of the beds, ours, are going to be used. He confirms.

    The dream goes on for quite a while with all kinds of thoughts about clothes, bathroom etc. Then it looks like more people actually live here and we will be sharing the room, now apartment with them. Someone opens the door and lots of DCs come in, new roommates, I think. This girl asks me questions about the admin, I don't understand what she is saying.

    Bf is gone and this guy comes and talks to me. I realize that this is a dream but my mind is kind of foggy. I remember having thoughts about me being in deep sleep and that this is good for stability. The guy leaves and another one appears, I like him very much and remark that he shows some persistent DC qualities. He comes and goes several times but looks the same, gray t-shirt, black hair, some eyeliner even, a bit like Mark Terenzi. He also gives me a kiss. We talk for some time but my memory is really bad. The dream starts to fade, I lose my sight but I can still hear him. I tell him to keep talking to me, I will hold on to the sound. I can feel my eyelids and am careful not to mess this up, but soon the image returns. He gives me another kiss. The dream slips away again and I struggle to bring it back. He is on the other side now but looking totally different and there is another guy dressed with the same clothes and holding a similar colorful object. The dream fades and I fall into oblivion.

    Falling: I am walking down the stairs talking to this DC. It looks like I have forgotten my handbag, I turn back and see it at the top of the stairs. I make it fly directly to my hands. The DC remarks that I am not supposed to do this while abroad. I have this warp-like feeling and realize that I never woke up from the previous dream. The B6 woman is also here in the background and I wonder if I should go and talk to her, examine her energy, and ask why does she always behave like that. At the same time, I don't want to waste too much time with her and risk things getting out of hand, so decide to just ignore her.

    I am looking at a large modern glass vase that they are selling in this now shop and try to move it with tk, but not much success. I also try with an elegant china tea cup but I feel that I don't really want to be breaking these things. Finally, I remember Angel Falls and follow the plan of "here and now". The main idea is to use the turn your back technique. I already hear water running just behind me (like a fountain in a mall). I am in some sort of not very well lit mall too. I take a few steps back, concentrating on changing the surroundings. I actually slip backwards a few steps, which feels kind of weird and not very effective, but the surrounds begin to change a bit. I decide to facilitate the process of getting rid of the old scene and into a new scene by falling backwards.

    As I do this, it's as if something immaterial swallows me and I enter void weightlessness combined with motion. I shortly see lots of greenery in front of me that is very similar to rainforest vegetation, but it quickly vanishes. I am speeding backwards in the void with this weird feeling of traveling through space at high speed. For a second my mind is totally blank and I feel stressed, I try to remind myself to keep cool, be patient as it seems to be taking too long and shortly pretend I am meditating. Then I try to concentrate on one of my visualizations and build the scene as I had imagined it. During the entire time of the experience, I hear the sound of falling water. It is much harder to concentrate and visualize than I thought, but I succeed in having lots of water flowing on me in the darkness now. I try to prepare the scene again even though it's not the right place where I actually wanted to start from. I am still flying backwards through space, this thing doesn't stop even if I expect it to. I briefly see the top of a barren hill with a non-human castle in the negative mood of some game or a game related dream. I don't want to be there. The falling continues and I finally find myself in bed. I stay still for a while but nothing happens.

    Comments: is it just me or is it really hard to concentrate on anything while in the void. I have noticed this another time as well. The moment everything disappears, my mind also goes totally black and if my mind is blank...then there will be nothing to project around me. Maybe I need to think about stuff, rather than struggle to visualize.
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    Updated 09-29-2013 at 07:29 PM by 61764

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    Comments

    1. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Congratulations on the LD, Nyx! Really cool teleportation tech, as well... I like the direction you're trying with this one. It's a very bold, aggressive tech but it has the advantage of being appropriate for virtually any dream scene that you find yourself in.

      I tried pitching myself backwards over Angel Falls and did get the sensation of falling and rushing water, but I think you were getting a lot more pieces of the experience here and were quite a bit closer overall. And great job not getting too hung up on things like the sight of the B6 lady! In a dream it's hard not to take the presence of DCs like that as some kind of problem or affront where you have to take immediate action (which will almost certainly be counterproductive.)

      The castle... am I remembering wrong? Did you have another dream where you saw a distant castle but you were int he middle of doing other things and had no opportunity to explore it? I may just be having a little false memory there.
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    2. Xanous's Avatar
      Comments: is it just me or is it really hard to concentrate on anything while in the void. I have noticed this another time as well. The moment everything disappears, my mind also goes totally black and if my mind is blank...then there will be nothing to project around me. Maybe I need to think about stuff, rather than struggle to visualize.
      In my dreams, both lucid and non, I have a greater awareness of physical sensations and touch; It's come really handy in the void. I usually pick a main aspect of where I want to end up and reach out and feel for it and the rest comes into focus. I think in your particular dream, I would have tried to put my hands in water and go from there. I don't know if that helps you or not but that's what I do.
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Good thoughts, Xanous. I take a pretty similar approach and just start assuming that I'm touching something that's related to my goal. In the void, there's not a lot of visual information to work from (obviously) so it might be harder to buy the idea that you're seeing whatever it is you want to see, at least right away.

      But once you establish that you have a dream body (such as by rubbing your hands together and/or probing at yourself) then you have a good base for playing the "Hey, I think that's water my fingertips are feeling" game.
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    4. Highlander's Avatar
      @ Nyxcc.

      Is it just me or is it really hard to concentrate on anything while in the void. I have noticed this another time as well. The moment everything disappears, my mind also goes totally black and if my mind is blank...then there will be nothing to project around me. Maybe I need to think about stuff, rather than struggle to visualize.
      I think it is good that you are at least able to recognise the void for what it is. Usually for a lot of people when they accidently stumble in the 'greyness' then it causes a FA usually.
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    5. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks guys!

      @ CL

      Congratulations on the LD, Nyx! Really cool teleportation tech, as well... I like the direction you're trying with this one. It's a very bold, aggressive tech but it has the advantage of being appropriate for virtually any dream scene that you find yourself in.
      Quite aggressive indeed. I think it needs some refinement, whereby I still try to construct the scene here and now, but without the extra movement (i.e. avoid falling, spinning, etc.). Maybe turn to the left just a bit, turn to the right, so that I don't completely make the whole dream disappear. With still no TOTYs done, I have plenty of room for experimentation (and not so much time, I know! )

      The castle... am I remembering wrong? Did you have another dream where you saw a distant castle but you were int he middle of doing other things and had no opportunity to explore it? I may just be having a little false memory there.
      No, your memory is correct. I was trying to change the scene back to the familiar street that leads to school when I got a castle in the background. That one was more like a historical sightseeing point, maybe even worth checking out, but in this dream it was a totally different mood. I sometimes get these game-like dreams where there are weird enemy creatures and this castle had a similar feel to it. And the whole environment looked rather uninviting, so I didn't want to hook onto that image.

      @ Xanous

      Thanks a lot Xanous!

      I have to admit that some void experiences, especially those where there is movement, throw me into a bit of a panic mode. My only concern is losing the dream and waking up and since there are no stimuli to hang on to that's usually the natural outcome of it, unless I manage to wake in another dream. Creating stimuli like you said, trying to feel an aspect of the future scene is a great idea. I guess I need to think in advance which aspect to concentrate on and maybe even include it in my visualization.

      @ Highlander

      Thanks for the compliment. Hopefully, with more practice and incorporating the great tips from the guys I will learn to deal with it more effectively.
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      Updated 09-29-2013 at 10:19 PM by NyxCC
    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Cool, I'm looking forward to your refinements on the teleport tech! I'm always torn between improving in each of two different directions. 1) Get better at improvising so that I make a smooth transition from the current location to the desired location. or 2) Get so good with at-will teleportation that I don't have to.

      I suppose nothing beats practice, and nothing gives you more practice than lots of LDs! Here's to a lucid October!

      Gotcha, so the castle was almost like foreboding scenery rather than an intriguing place to go visit...
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    7. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks for writing it in such a straight-forward way. Now that you have typed it, it doesn't sound as complicated as we sometimes make it. Like you said, the problem arises when we start to wonder which approach to use. Perhaps we need to pick one before the ld starts?

      I totally agree, things are getting better and will improve even more with practice. To a lucid October!
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    8. Xanous's Avatar
      Excited to see you progress!
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