International Oneironaut Shared Dreaming Journal

Nephanim's Dreams

Nothing related to Chichen-Itza today, either, but here are my dreams from last night.

Cleaning for a Neighbor

I was cleaning some stuff outside Autumn’s house. For some reason, I saw dirty furniture outside her neighbor’s house and decided to clean that, too. I dusted it off and wiped down all the surfaces. The woman who lived there saw us cleaning her things and approached us in shock. At first, she thought we were going to steal from her, but she was impressed by our good deed. She let us inside to continue cleaning. The woman had two puppies that she had just gotten as a present for her kids. The dogs still hadn’t learned not to eat things on the coffee table in the living room, so I had to follow them out of the room to retrieve these decorative figures they tried to devour. Once I got them back, we cleared everything off the table and cleaned that, too. The woman received a phone call and had to leave the house in our care. While she was gone, Autumn brought Cleo over. The cat started climbing all over the furniture, and whenever I tried to pick her up, she slashed at me with her claws. I watched her climb on the larger dog’s back and direct him by prodding him with her claws. It was disturbing how intelligently this cat enslaved the poor puppy.

Plot to Invade Planespace

I watched over a large, hexagonal room as a white-haired man issued orders to his subordinates standing at the midpoint of each wall. The glowing, circular tiles beneath each person’s feet glowed the color of the portal to one of the six domains: Life, Death, Magic, Power, Order, and Chaos. I quickly grasped that this man was attempting to seize control of Planespace and then use the unparalleled military power that would supply him with to capture Nyre. Another jerk after world domination, I thought… I considered taking care of him myself, but then I noticed something strange about their intended leader of the underworld, Xii. He stood rigid, and his entire body was pale – lifeless. The white-haired leader addressed him, but instead of responding, he collapsed. Neluna stood behind him with her hand on her exposed thigh.

“I hope you don’t mind,” she said in a sweet voice. “This man entered my territory without the proper procedures, so I took care of that for him.” She giggled.

“Kill her!” the white-haired man ordered. Neluna disappeared into a black portal without delaying for a moment. It was probably fortunate that she did; an instant later, the man standing in the corner corresponding to the Plane of Magic sent a purple wind from his hand. The spell reached into the energies connecting Nyre to Planespace to prevent the use of all portals. It was an amazing spell. I was impressed that we hadn’t encountered this man before. Someone tried to enter the room via portal, but an iron gate appeared on the other side of it. I thrust out my disembodied arm and reversed the direction of the portal to prevent whoever made it from being crushed to bits coming through.

“We’re going to invade the Plane of Death first,” the leader announced, scowling at his dead subordinate. “Find a replacement for him at once. If we can capture that demoness’ domain, we’ll all be immortal.” It amused me that he had the nerve to go after Neluna first… She would rip them to pieces and suck every drop of energy from their souls.

Frictionless Sled and Making a Wish

I was talking to Alexandra Hoeschen online. She seemed interested in playing on WMBRO with us – not immediately, but sometime in the future. I was really excited by the idea. If I could get Balex to play, maybe Joe Beaumont would also join us. I got distracted from our conversation when I looked in a mirror and saw my teeth. A strange half-tooth was growing on top of another one, and the middle portion looked as though it had rotted out. I didn’t realize it was an extra tooth at first, so I tried to push it back to my gum line. When it was clear that it wouldn’t fit anywhere, I pulled it out. My mouth started oozing blood.

The dream jumped. I went with Autumn to my old high school in Texas. I brought some kind of frictionless sled. I hopped into it, giving it the initial momentum required to carry me wherever I pleased. We circled around to the huge parking lot beside the school. Autumn met with another girl, but I didn’t catch what they were talking about because I was too busy trying to direct my sled. I kept crashing into things. Eventually, Autumn started toward the other side of the school. I didn’t even notice as the environment changed into a grocery store. We went to the dairy aisle at the back of the store and raced from one end to the other. I wasn’t able to stop my sled, so I slammed hard into the wall. Autumn disappeared before I was able to recover. I went to the front of the building and exited. On my way out, I summoned a quarter into my pocket and got a gumball from one of those candy machines. I knew that any wish I made would come true – but I wondered if I was going to hurt the economy by creating money…

I already had gum in my mouth somehow, so I continued chewing that while walking out to the car. The environment changed back into the high school. Most of the other cars were gone. I waited by the wrong car for Autumn. When she came back, the girl she talked to outside was with her. All three of us got in the car.

Discovery of the Mist World

I was investigating the murder of a friend in his mansion. While wandering the building, I accidentally slipped into a hole in the dreamscape and found myself in a world between that one and the next. It was a misty world of escaped demons and whatnot. As I entered, Apheri warned me that I was in a dangerous place.

“You should probably head back soon,” she warned as the mist crawled up my arms. “If you stay here too long, you’re liable to lose your memory.” She snickered. “You’re not listening, are you?”

“I’m going to see if there are any hints here. Maybe someone knows what happened to him.”

“Suit yourself,” she said, brushing away the mist surrounding me for a moment. I wandered through a group of succubi who were watching me. They were clothed, but they might as well have been wearing nothing; their leather outfits covered their shoulders, stomachs, and legs, but the majority was completely bare. They proudly displayed themselves to me, expecting to easily convince me to open my soul to their advances. Having experienced this kind of thing with Neluna far too many times, I wasn’t impressed.

“I’m looking for someone who knows about a murder,” I told them. Some of the succubi looked worried. One stepped in front of me, hands folded over her chest.

“If you’re here for that, you can talk to that woman over there,” she answered. She pointed in the direction of a blond woman sitting by herself on thin air. It looked like there should’ve been a ledge there, but she was just floating… I thanked the succubus and slipped out of their hungry group. A bunch of pale-faced beings with sunken eye sockets watched me in apparent agony as I walked by. One of them fell forward onto all fours and started slowly crawling after me. Even when I reached the blond-haired woman in armor, I glanced back over my shoulder and saw that he was still slowly making his way toward me. I hoped he wouldn’t catch me off-guard. I introduced myself to the armored woman. She held up a pike as she hopped down to my level. The mist began to surround us both.

“We don’t usually get your kind here,” she laughed. “You can call me RPG. I guess you’re looking for information, right?”

“Yeah – there was a murder in an adjacent world, and I think it has something to do with this place.”

“Maybe.” Seeming to trail off on another topic entirely, she smiled up at me and asked, “Did you know that Timelyst Knight and the High Lord of Anguish are the same person?” When I admitted that I didn’t, she laughed again. “It’s all the governor’s fault. He’s the one you want.” RPG turned away from me, unwilling to divulge any more information. I whipped out my laptop and started looking up information on the governor connected to my deceased friend. Meanwhile, succubi gathered around me, whispering and cooing to one another. It took me a moment to realize that the one standing in front of me was Neluna.

“What?” I asked her without really looking up.

“This is an interesting place,” she said. “I’ve never been here before.”

“That’s probably because it’s off the map. It shouldn’t even exist.”

“Time’s running short…” Apheri warned. “Don’t stay much longer.” I put a hand on the hilt of my sword, putting her at ease. A surprisingly ordinary-looking man broke through the crowd of succubi, closed my web browser, and suggested that I come to dinner before it’s all gone. I stared in disbelief at the guy. He didn’t seem to realize that he’d wandered into a world overrun by demonic entities. At any rate, I decided I could come back here whenever I wanted, so I bid the succubi farewell and followed the man back to the mansion.

The dream jumped. While I waited at a dining table, a chef explained that he had prepared special beverages for us. They were made of a dangerous chemical that could be used to create chloroform, however, so he needed us to sign a release form and present identification in order to pick one up. I wasn’t sure I liked the idea of drinking something so hazardous… At any rate, I was the fourth person in line, so I immediately began looking through sheets of names for mine. I found it just in time to present my card and cross it off the list. The chef went back into the kitchen to fetch my drink.