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    The beauty and the beast

    by , 02-09-2014 at 08:42 PM (861 Views)
    Date: 06 Feb

    Wbtb: 1/3 latte

    I have a number of short lds that I chain through the void. Summary

    LD: In my old room, stabilize by touching furniture. Notice that lamps are on. Find a newspaper I try to read with difficulty for a while. The lamps go off, I become blind and then the dream blacks to the void. I stay there for a bit, waiting for the next dream.

    LD: In a car, get out of the car, notice my reflection in the windows. Hair is the same, but it gets in my face, I make a ponytail. I want to change the scene, try splitting the space, I feel another place, but nothing visually changes. I get bored, allow myself to fall back. This yields a number of sensations as well as weightlessness. The dream fades to the void. I wait for the next scene.

    LD: I find myself in a nice hotel lobby, bright flowers decorate the place. Some guest DCs, a monk at the distance catches my attention, I go to check it out. The monk is gone but a few DCs are paying their respect to a metal statue. I have some mischievous thoughts, but bow down instead. There are two more statues (not in service), metal turtles. The dream fades to black, I stay still for DEILD but it takes a while.

    Review in head, feeling tired, I fall asleep.

    DILD+: on and off lucidity, FA, in- dream wild and sexy time

    DILD: I find myself in this familiar place and start looking at the plants near the windows, try some tk on them, but it doesn't work. I think maybe there's a reason for this. Then I turn to examine the room, everything looks kind of blurry and unstable. My attention is caught by those lamps - three lamps, I try to identify if they come from a memory or just random ones, it's like my vision almost splits in two and there is a fourth lamp, but I try to focus more and they're back to three. I mentally make a note of the bad quality, then go down the stairs. I immediately regret doing so, because I run into the B6 DC and she charges at me. At this moment, I become quite concerned that this might truly be some sort of evil entity just using her form to terrorize me. It's just too active, so lively in the eyes and so aggressive. I have no choice but to face her. I think I say a few words, but her mood remains the same. Then I decide this is a good opportunity to do my breathing and concentrate on that. I do this for a while. In the meantime, she seems to have changed her mind about attacking me and is weeping.

    Memory gap, possibly another blackout.

    DILD: On the street now and I see this empty space in the horizon and recall I wanted to use something like this to draw a mountain. A bit uncerain if the dream will last long enough, with all the blackouts and instability before. I decide to go ahead with the summoning, yet before I do any motions with my hands I notice that the space isn't quite empty. It looks like in the very distance, as if seeing through the fog is something that looks like a large mountain. As I keep staring at it, it becomes much clearer and closer, till I find myself looking at a solid spot of the mountain covered with grass. The surroundings have changed without me noticing and I am at the foot of this huge mountain. I cover the majority of it with snow until I feel it's enough for the task. Then I examine the slope, which is initially way too steep to enable any upward movements. This worries me but I move to a part of it and feeling very excited summon a pair of ski and ski poles.

    I totally can't believe the summon worked as I have nothing to do with this sport. Anyways, I start gliding up the slope, which by then is less steeper. Contrary to my expectations from real life, this is not as hard and actually pretty pleasurable. I glide upwards the slope which goes up and down and it feels as if I am on a roller coaster. Then I reach the top of the mountain and feel adventurous, contemplate on jumping from the top or skiing down. Yet before I can decide what to do, the momentum carries me forward and I continue moving in the air. I notice that I feel no switch in sensations from gliding on the mountain surface to this weird air movement. My mood is great, I gaze to what's ahead and not below me. It is a beautiful view of green plains, with a weird building with one-two statues in the distance and a very large gray palace next to it.

    At this time it clicks this could so well be the palace I wanted to summon (while reviewing tasks during wbtb). I'm still skeptic that will be able to make it and complete the entire task but give it a go. Don't remember flying for a long distance, it's like the palace became closer as I started to focus on the steps of the task. I go in what looks like museum palace lobby, there's some thematic furniture, long red carpet or velvet curtains, don't pay too much attention to them. I immediately think dad. That's actually quite easy and there he stands in one of the side corridors. I say a few words to him, to mentally confirm this is going the way it has to be. Then start looking for the beast but there is no one in sight.

    The room I'm in is pretty small and there are stairs going down and I go to the lower floor, looking for the beast. I run into an old Chinese man that I try to make look scary but no matter how much effort I put into this, he stays the same. I obviously start making scary faces and roar in an attempt to distort his features into evil ones, but he looks scared as hell and is shivering. I can't believe my DC is afraid of me and where is that beast? A couple of DCs that I don't pay much attention to appear and there it is - a disgusting beast. It looks like one H. Bosch's animals - a mixture of different animals, like a large pink pig and echidna, strange fur and the nose of a mole. It also is spitting something poisonous from its month and hissing. I so much regret not being able to summon my much now friendly looking lion man at this point.

    Disgusted, I approach the wild creature, tell him I love him (it) and kiss it near what looks like its mouth. I remain with my eyes closed and wait a bit, but can still feel this thing aggressively making breathing noises and moving around. I know the curse has to be broken but nothing happens, and I can't take the little bugger any more. It's somewhat smaller now - the size of a cat maybe and I throw it away where it gets under some furniture. That thing keeps making the sounds, but looks wounded and in the next moment I see that it gives existence to a DC that comes out from under the furniture. To my amusement, it is a female classmate. Good enough I suppose. The dream soon fades.

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    Comments

    1. Xanous's Avatar
      You're really on fire. Crongrats on all the LDs!!! So, what's your lucidity hit rate with the latte's? Im still getting lot of failures with caffeine. Though it does increase dreaming and recall, it's the LDs I want!
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    2. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks! That's a good question. While most successful attempts feature caffeine, not all caffeine attempts are successful. Maybe 60 percent? I think I'm partially to blame because of the lousy wbtbs. There are times when I drink the latte and just black out before I have the chance to properly wake myself and think about ld goals. I guess increasing the dose might work in those cases, but I never know when I'll get insomnia.
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    3. Highlander's Avatar
      Congratulations NyxCC on the amount of lds, recall, getting through the void parts and sticking with it right through it all.

      You even completed the tasks and had some sexy-time to boot too.
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    4. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks Highlander! It was a good night indeed. I hope to be able to one day understand the exact factors that make this void transition to dream rather than wake possible. I think my stubbornness played a role here.
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Great job all the way through here! What a night, especially how tenaciously you held on for those DEILD chains. Awesomely done. You really earned these. It reminded me how long it's been since I really held on with anywhere near this much discipline.

      I was curious what mischief you had in mind for the statue worshippers. If you were feeling particularly impish you could have really impress those DCs by bringing the thing to life!

      But what really knocked my socks off was this last, huge LD. In spite of what seemed like persistent half-doubts throughout the dream, you completed not only a Task of the Month but one of the Tasks of the Year as well! Sensational!! Great job with the summoning and with hanging with things even when your subconscious gave you some unpleasant surprises (a surprise that in this case sounded like it had a frightening appearance and terrible breath!)

      You really know how to work that caffeine. Congratulations on an awesome night of dreaming!
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    6. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks!

      I was curious what mischief you had in mind for the statue worshippers. If you were feeling particularly impish you could have really impress those DCs by bringing the thing to life!
      That's a great idea! Mine was more like get to where the statue is and start behaving like an idiot kind of thing.

      But what really knocked my socks off was this last, huge LD. In spite of what seemed like persistent half-doubts throughout the dream, you completed not only a Task of the Month but one of the Tasks of the Year as well! Sensational!
      Thanks! It was quite unexpected for me too! I meant to do the tasks, but the way the whole thing went was surprising! Especially to run into the palace without having thought about it at that very moment (at least not on a conscious or detectable level!). Great support for having a wbtb and thinking about tasks in advance.
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Yeah, you're so right about having a WBTB. I've been letting my busy life dictate my sleep schedule more and it's gotten soooo easy to skip the WBTB night after night. It's shameful, I tell you!

      Hopefully I'll follow your fine example here and do it right!

      Great work again, Nyx, congrats...
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    8. NyxCC's Avatar
      I know the feeling. We easily find excuses to skip, especially when busy and/or not getting enough sleep. Hope you find the opportunity to set one of those magical wbtbs! I'm looking forward to hearing about your awesome lds when you do!
    9. fogelbise's Avatar
      Wow NyxCC! So much lucidity in one night! Very encouraging!!
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