Kholdstare

This took place in a video game for some time.

I have no idea what was happening early on, but I do know that I had a lot of junk in my inventory and that every monster killed would drop a humongous pill shaped like a Sweet Tart. Eventually, I happened upon some kind of a demon guy who offered to take me to a shop. I accepted. First he told me to put some things on a raft in some water (I put my whole backpack on the raft) and he teleported me.

He transported me into this small room with a couple of tables (the kind you would see in a school cafeteria, but without seats) covered in plastic table cloths. Apparently, putting things on the raft automatically sells them for you, which is annoying because everything I owned was in that backpack. Fortunately, I got the backpack back as well as a good share of cash. Each table had a handful of items for sale on it. Most of them were pretty worthless for me, such as packs of M&Ms, but I did note a pair of gloves and some jewelry. Upon further inspection, though, the jewelry was made out of plastic. The pair of gloves was beige, rather worn, and made of suede. A simple pair of work gloves. However, for whatever reason, they were highly enchanted. I picked them up and bought them and immediately put them on. I tried to see if any of the plastic jewelry was enchanted, but I noticed that it (among most things in the store; the gloves must have been an anomaly) cost "tickets" instead of cash. I only had one, so I started walking out. Along the way I bumped the jewelry cabinet with my backpack that had suddenly become full, and I was ushered out very quickly.

Some time later, I was in the dungeon to the south of the demon guy. My inventory was nearly full again and I was traveling to the shop. I had very little money, though I had apparently recruited a lot of IRL friends. They told me to go left of where I was currently, and I did. I found a giant coin (which apparently earned me absolutely no money) as well as some assorted loot further down. The entire area was pitch black. I exited and finished traveling to the demon that transported me to the shop, only to discover that the area was flooded. My friends apparently had the ability to place rafts to reach him and were bickering over how to orient them. They finally settled on an arrangement, and I jumped to one raft where the salesdemon was. I noticed that there was apparently something on one of the other rafts, so I jumped to it. The raft was not very stable, however, and flipped over the moment I landed. A minor commotion rose up among my friends who claimed that if the rafts had been oriented their way, I would not have fallen in. I ignored them and climbed back onto the salesdemon raft. The selling raft was a good distance away and I figured I could just sell me junk directly in the shop, so I began to ask the salesdemon to teleport me.

Before I could finish, though, one of my friends stopped me. Everyone collaboratively threw their entire inventory onto the sell platform so that I could buy everyone (me included) some new equipment. But mostly me, because I was awesome. I resumed teleporting.

In essence, this did NOTHING. When I arrived at the shop, I only had 50 gold (in comparison to, IIRC, 1987 gold from the first time). Apparently putting items on the selling platform resulted in the owner gaining money when they teleported, not the next person to teleport. Only one person came with me, and they had nothing in their inventory to sell. It seemed like nobody would buy my items, either, so I was stuck window shopping.

The store was completely different this time around. Instead of looking like a makeshift school store, it looked like a distinguished magic shop. Various magical and magic-related items were stocked on various shelves. Immediately after teleporting in, I saw a fire-shooting staff that would definitely come in handy; I figured I could attempt to steal it since it was apparently inside a small box that couldn't possibly fit a staff. When I went over to it's shelf, however, it had been replaced by something else.

The items were widely varied and all magical as I said, but everyone except for the shopkeepers seemed to be incapable of magic. I noticed that the dark of the place was dark, so me and the one friend that came with me took out a flashlight and entered the darkness. We could see a rack of very dusty, cobweb-ridden barrels of various sizes (even something that looked like half a liter) for sale. There were some equally dusty picnic tables scattered around, and a wooden (!?!) fireplace centered in the room. The darkened area was like a whole new room, being a lot more rustic and a lot less modern than the actual shop.

We noticed a door in the dark area. We figured that we could possibly score some loot from the area behind it, as it seemed like nobody had gone to the dark area for literally ages. As soon as we started walking towards it, I woke up.



Interestingly, magic shops accessed via teleportation appear to be recurring of all things. Not long ago I had a dream where if I clapped my hands together, locked my legs, closed my eyes, and concentrated, I would teleport to a magic shop that also happened to be selling a very crappy katana. The stock changed every time I went to that magic shop, but the room layout was the same.

Honestly, I have no idea what it was. I think it was an unintentional WILD but for the most part the experience was identical to my previous DEILD experiences.

So, I was woken up by my mother at 5:30. She thought I had school today, but I didn't (I had forgotten to tell her that we didn't have school today) so she went to go do some things. I considered doing a more proper WBTB but I was tired so I didn't bother and I went back to sleep. I feel like at some point I had lost consciousness and went to sleep, but the next thing I knew, I was aware (with my eyes closed) and a green and blue spiral was in front of my eyes, identical to my previous two DEILD experiences. I heard a very heavy and turbulent wind blowing around me (think of a strong wind during a storm near the sea; that sort of whistly wind). I immediately noticed what was happening and that I could enter a lucid dream, so I tried to imagine a generic tropical island. For a brief moment, the green and blue swirl faded away and I felt (and "saw" through my eyelids but i'm nearly certain this was a hallucination) an intense, warm light on my face and the turbulent wind stopped, but after a couple moments the wind picked back up and the swirl came back. I tried imagining the tropical island again, and soon I entered a dream, barely lucid.

I was not in my body, yet I could still see. I had absolutely no control over myself at this point, but I was hovering around a tiny ice-covered island dotted with penguins, getting a view of the whole thing before I was taken close to my own body stumbling in some snow (sort of like my first DEILD, where I hovered around a zelda-style dungeon as my mind generated it and my consciousness zoomed back into my body at the entrance when it was done). I looked at myself from a short distance away, and I thought to myself that I had to keep my awareness up. I rubbed my hands together quickly and focused on the heat it generated (bizarrely enough it was fairly warm on the polar island). My consciousness zoomed back into my body. I began to explore the island on foot, but unfortunately my awareness and recall started tanking and I lost lucidity. I can't recall what happened, but I do remember the end of the dream; I was looking for food on some sort of a futuristic base in a jungled area whilst fighting off aliens or something.




What surprises me most is that this resembled my previous two DEILDs a lot, especially the first one. In the first one, I saw the blue-green spiral and heard a turbulent wind. This eventually died down, after which I heard a very friendly feminine voice close to my face saying "Wake up, [name]. Wake up. Can you hear me? Save me..." after which I "asked" to be taken to a dungeon to conquer. Then, as I explained above, I saw the dungeon being generated from a distance without my body or control of my body and my consciousness zoomed back into my body when it was finished. In the second one, I saw the blue-green spiral (so far it has been identical every time, the only time I had a different visual hallucination was in this one when I saw the bright light) and heard and felt the wind, though this time it sounded vaguely magical and it felt like it was spiraling as if it were a hurricane. I imagined a jungled island like I did now, and my (real) eyes opened and I saw my bedroom as if it had been jungleified. I tried to examine it more closely, but it became my real room and I was fully awake.

Very strange how the spiral and the wind crops up every time... I wonder if it could mean something. I'm not sure if this was DEILD or WILD but I don't really care much.