Night Vision

The last dream of another night where there were too many to record…. It starts off with traveling to a convention with a group of people - at first by car, but then it seems like we’re on something like a metro train, which also changes at some point to not be an enclosed vehicle. As we get closer, enormous centipedes keep getting in our way, and I have to push them aside so we can keep going. I know that they’re part of the experience that the guy in charge has provided for us - there was actually a part earlier in the dream where somebody called him up to make sure he knew to get everything ready.

At some point, it changes to walking through a series of mostly empty rooms. As on the train, I’m in the lead, aware of the others being somewhere behind me. After a couple rooms, there start to be multiple doors available, the idea being (I think) that all of us will end up alone in different rooms.

Eventually, I find myself in a larger room than the previous ones, apparently some kind of laboratory. I am aware of having entered some kind of boss battle scenario, and I’m now effectively stuck in this room until I can fulfill its exit conditions. The room is tall-ceilinged with a number of raised, fenced-in platforms housing various machines, mostly. A large, insect-like creature with thin, black, spiky limbs is moving about in it. Not attacking me, though - it mostly seems to be helping a woman there whom I assume is its creator moving things around the lab.

Since it doesn’t seem interested in initiating a fight, I look around to try to gather more information about this place and what I’ll have to do here. I find a sign, a bit like something you might see at a zoo exhibit, and read it. It turns out to be annoyingly cryptic, although it does give me some helpful information about the creature. It’s apparently based on a flea, which tells me that it’s probably a very impressive jumper. The sign claims that it weighs 85 pounds - so light, considering its large size. There’s also a very strong hint that I’ll have to take the creature’s body to a garden there - I can see it, a small one on one of the raised platforms - and use it to feed the plants before the exit will unlock.

I’m still not satisfied, though, and so I decide to get some further information. I summon a display out of thin air to pull up the lucid dreamer’s information page corresponding to this location. I understand this to be a well-established trick used to find out more about dream settings, which is interesting for a number of reasons, not least because I haven’t actually gained lucidity at any point. The page actually resembles a spreadsheet instead of being an informative blurb like the sign, but I have no trouble understanding it, and what it’s telling me is very interesting. Apparently, feeding the garden is actually the only condition I need to fulfill in order to unlock the door. And there’s nothing saying that I have to do it the way the sign is suggesting.

I run my left thumb across the palm of my right hand, and a cut appears there. It does not hurt, and I am aware of doing this through making changes on a chemical level rather than physically breaking the skin. Better to do it this way. Anything with an exoskeleton is just too cute to fight. Pretty much anything without one too, but yeah, I definitely have a weakness for arthropods….

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