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    1. Lucid all night, Part1 DILDs

      by , 07-12-2014 at 04:15 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      07/10/14 DILD I was lucid for the last few hours of the night. I really need to work on my recall. Each time I got up in the night I considered writing stuff down, but was sure I would remember the dreams. Sure, met with that girl and the guy out side of the school, played that game, screwed around doing those things; sure, I got it, no problem, I will not forget. Yet when I got up for the day I reviewed the dreams and they were less clear. Maybe write them down? No, that is fine, I will remember. Now 12 hours later? All vague and dreamy, lol.
      In the first half of the night I do clearly remember one amazing sequence. I had been screwing around for some time when I decided to wok on skills. I still have been interested in growing fruit from the sprout to flower, to fruit. I decided to try pumpkins this time. I did it with little to no problem. I focused on the ground and caused vines to sprout and grow with big pumpkin leaves and then flowers. I caused medium sized pumpkins to sprout. Having accomplished that so easily (remember how much work my first tomatoes were?) I decided to play with the plant. I caused each leaf to change into huge lotus leaves, big round leaves the size of garbage can lids. I caused them to swivel around like radar dishes. I then sprouted flowers and caused them to glow amber and look like crystals. At some point I woke up and used the rest room.
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    2. 07/09/14 Bad Habits

      by , 07-12-2014 at 03:38 AM (Cities in the Astral)
      07/9/14 DILD I was dreaming when someone offered me a pipe. It was a marijuana pipe. I became lucid as this was out of the ordinary. I have been frustrated by some work issues, so I decided to stay lucid and sit around with the DCs and partying. I inhaled a big toke off the pipe, and actually felt a drug like rush.
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    3. Smoking weed but not getting high?

      by , 07-12-2014 at 02:13 AM
      Last night I had a very short and strange dream. I was in my living room with a friend, and we were taking hits from a bong while my parents were sleeping. I was getting kind of annoyed that I wasn't getting high after about ten hits, and that's the last thing I could remember. Does anyone know what this could mean?
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    4. Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA

      by , 07-12-2014 at 01:21 AM
      I'm cool on Buddhism. Where Buddhism calls it "mindfulness", my generation called it "awareness", and, as an ageing hippie, I kept the faith and valued new awareness all my life. Lucid dreams are dreams like the waking world- physical awareness, smells, bodily sensitivity, choice of experience, Consciousness. It's not that regular dreams are not conscious, but that a lucid dream is MORE conscious, as if it were a physical event. I'm not sure how mindful I am in a normal dream. I assume that I am, within the laws of that experience. But in Lucid dreams, I am applying my mindfulness in the same way I apply it in waking consciousness. Because I am taking the waking self into the dream state, with all my beliefs and assumptions, I respond to events from my own beliefs and experiences.
      I have had lucid dreams that did not include all the baggage I carry in physical life. I have experienced total consciousness without memory of my current life. But I still felt totally, physically aware, not afraid of the tendency of the environment to offer unexpected events, and without a sense of need to control my experience.
      I've had Lucid dreams where I required control. But the ones where I let my control go seem to be the most interesting.
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    5. Swimming, Dragon Balls In Space, Urie Urine (12.7.14)

      by , 07-12-2014 at 01:05 AM (CHiLLEN's Dream Journal)
      Dream 1

      I'm at my home town, swimming at the old swimming pools. As I'm floating around I think about the chlorine that's in the pool and decide to get out.

      I see my cousins Trev and Russ in the pool. They're racing other competitors. Trev comes first and Russ comes out not long after in second place.

      We leave the pools and now in a car with Russ. We're driving down the road near Buddy's lot and Russ tries to pass a car but the man won't give him room, so Russ allows me to veer over instead but the man doesn't do anything.

      I ask Russ about his preparation of his swimming. He says that he doesn't really prep anymore as he used too, and finds it's just for fun now days.

      We arrive at a unit and I get told that Dad is inside and is drunk off a six pack with someone. My cousin Maryanne comes over to the car and I see that she has some Ice Creams in her hand. They're magnums. I eat one and decide to go inside the unit. I see the empty bottles of beer and Eddy and Daryl on the couch. They're making up there own ice cream, which looks a little different to normal ice cream. I ask Eddy if he's going to use the chocolate topping and he says yes.

      I walk over to the stove and notice that Daryl is cooking something.

      Dream 2

      I'm on a space shuttle and it's as if we're playing a game, where we had to hold onto the dragon balls for as long as we could. Well, I think that was the objective. The dragon balls didn't look like the normal dragon balls, there was 2 of them and one was black and other white.

      The space shuttle looked pretty awesome. It was similar to the inside of the movie Aliens.

      I think I fought who had the dragon balls. Once I got a hold of them I didn't really have a clue of the power they held and how to use them. I try and put them together and power up for some kind of strike. I get a little response out of he dragon balls but I don't think it was from me, I think it was due to that they were touching each other.

      I hide in a closet to get away from the enemy but soon after I come out from hiding and notice some of Tammy Clay's underwear. They look like old style jocks and I'm tempted to have a strong whiff and see what she smells like.

      I soon realise by looking at the score board which I could see in my vision, that there's only myself and 1 other still in the game.

      Dream 3
      Recorded at 9.00am

      Talking to David at my house and he mentions about when I came back and picked up bottles, he said he farted in them all. I asked him is that why you yelled out "one sec, just giving some pwning" or something on the lines of that. I could see text appear In my vision of that quote he said.

      David grabs my hands and plays around with me for a second and I tell him careful, due to my hands being a little puffed up in areas.

      I see Dad pissing in what I thought was Rex's water bowl but instead it was a container the size of a baby pool. After he finished peeing in the pool, he just about to go for a hour long walk down the botanical gardens. As he was leaving I told him if anyone asks who you are, just tell them you're Urie Urine. I think he was going to bathe his feet in the pool when he gets back from his long walk.
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    6. How to share dream?

      by , 07-12-2014 at 12:30 AM
      Hi. I'm new here. I was drawn to the community because I've always experienced lucid dreaming, even before I read La Berge's book back in the 80's, and also, specifically, because my family often discussed dreams with each other, and we discovered that we dreamed together often, each of us, generally, able to describe the events and individual actions in the dream (though we discovered that sometimes the dream was experienced on different nights!)
      I'm interested in the idea that dreams are a "place", rather than an individual's private construction, outside the dreaming of others. I have experienced shared dreaming with other's outside my family, all spontaneous, but verified when next I saw them. This is outside the lucid dreaming theme. These dreams might have been the common dream, recalled but not lucid. I have yet to have a lucid, shared dream.
      In the common dream, sharing might occur, but participants might not remember? Do we all share activity in the dreaming world, and either not remember it or not discuss dreams with them? I don't know, but I'm interested in anyone who has experience with this.
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    7. How to share dream?

      by , 07-12-2014 at 12:28 AM
      This is like my experience! In one dream, I was going for a walk with my niece. She was six at the time we shared this dream, and in my version, we encountered a big warehouse filled with interesting, museum-like things. Over in a far corner was a playground, complete with swings and slides, and she went there to play while I looked at all the fantastic things elsewhere in the warehouse. Two days later I asked her about her dreams, and she told me about the Carnival we encountered in a park. She said I let her go and ride any ride she wanted while I stayed at the picnic table. She was so pleased to be free to play by herself!
      I've had four such dreams, where the experience was different, yet alike enough in the basic encounter. I think of a Star Trek scene where Riker and DeAnna Troy beam down to a planet and while they are both together, each experience different environments.
      In one of my family's shared dreams, we discovered that one brother dreamed it on a different night. Points to the possibility that time doesn't matter in dreaming, and that people might not need to be asleep at the same time HERE, but that it may always be the same time THERE?
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    8. What does your username mean?

      by , 07-12-2014 at 12:25 AM
      I believe that when this life is over, we all meet around the same campfire, no matter who thinks they own it. My attitude toward organized religions. From my viewpoint, it would be mine-but only in respect to me being there. It really doesn't belong to me, either.
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    9. Sooo Yeah...I'm Still Alive.

      by , 07-11-2014 at 11:03 PM (Krista's Dream Journal)
      Hey guys! It's been forever since I've been on here, but I feel like it's time to get back into dream journaling.

      Lots of things have changed in my life since I was last on here. I am now married, I have a new job, and I have a fairly popular poetry blog on Tumblr (message me if you are interested in reading ).

      Since being on here last, I have still had lucid dreams, but not as many, though the ones I have had have actually been quite meaningful. I am delving quite far into spiritual teachings these days, not seemingly able to get enough, and it has shown in my dreams. In a recent lucid, I discovered a woman I met at work has been in all of my past lives, and various other things. Crazy stuff!! Can't wait to start writing it down again! I love going back and reading my journals. It is very interesting to piece together the events of the dreams, the recurring themes and such, with the events that were unfolding in my life at that time. Try it sometime with your own! So fascinating.

      Well, tomorrow I will start journaling again. See you all then! Happy dreaming!
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    10. Facing a nightmare [11/07/14]

      by , 07-11-2014 at 10:14 PM (My lucid comeback!)
      Last night I had some difficulties falling asleep again and DR wasn't the best but I must say the dream that I had felt and still feels quiet important to me.

      1. Stand and fight

      I'm somewhere in California or just somewhere in America with large forests and warm temperatures, it's sunset and I'm enjoying a walk through the forest. I cross some small crooks using small bridges made of 4 logs. I feel like this is summer camp or something and I'm pretty young. (I never went to camps when I was younger IRL.) Suddenly the dream teleports me, I'm back myself and I'm in the same forest but a different location. As I look down the very long dirt road infront of me with at the end a road and buildings (Mabye 250 meters far?) I hear a growl behind my back. I turn around and see a large dark bear standing there, he stares at me with a hungry expression. For 3 seconds I'm frozen and thinking about the best thing to do, my rational minds tells me to remain steady and stare back cause that's what you're told to do when you see a bear, yeah? But my instinct is more powerfull and forces me to run the other way as fast as I can. After 5 seconds of running I realise I made the wrong decision and now the bear thinks I'm a prey, I hear his growling getting closer and closer and his footsteps smashing the ground beneath him. 20 meters further I feel my legs are extremely tired and I know I can't run from this thing, he will tear me in pieces!
      But then the most important part of the dream happens, atleast what I think makes it so special. I turn around and see the bear storming at me and he's about 5 meters away from me, I quickly grab a pocket knife (IRL I've never had one.) and try pulling the knife out of the device. I think to myself "If I can't run away from you, then I will not give up without a fight." By the time I ready the knife the bear is just 1 meter infront of me and tries to attack. I dodge it and stab him in his upper neck, the knife barely pierces the thick fur and leathery skin but I see some blood. The bear keeps attacking and after several more stabbings the dream teleports again and I look down on the corpse of the bear, which is completly covered in blood.


      Now the reason why I think this dream is so important is cause I just defeated a true nightmare, for the first time in my life. I don't have to worry about it returning or something cause I ended it right then and there. It also shows a bit of who I am as a person I think, I like to ignore and walk away from problems that aren't extremely important but when they do get big I usually solve them really well.

      Updated 08-01-2014 at 01:26 PM by 69433

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    11. Vulture's Story Chapter Two: My first bounty, a rather tough experience.

      by , 07-11-2014 at 10:05 PM
      DEILD
      (previous dream:Chapter One: The hulking bounty-hunter.)
      The transition happened quick and effortless, I found myself in my old house, I teleported back to the cafe of Chapter One and noticed that I already had Vulture's appearance. I went outside and began to ask random DC's about this guy, it was hard because I didn't get any name, but then an old lady remembered seeing him in the outskirts (which happened to be a desert) I flew there using my Wind Manipulation powers, he was creating something. It was the guy alright, he stood up, he just talked to me without turning around "Are you one of those bounty hunters?" I took a battle stance, he turned around and seemed to be holding some kind of trading card, I couldn't see what was on it but I heard him shout "Come forth, Varass!" he threw the card away and it exploded, suddenly a vicious, purple dragon flew where the card was thrown. I prepared myself, sand was beginning to fly calmly around me like an aura, I began attacking the dragon, using the sand as sickle like projectiles, he could evade some of them, but I had hit him in his leg and in his tail, he cried out in pain, suddenly I saw that guy throwing another of these trading cards at me, while shouting "Fireball!" it turned into a fireball and I could just barely evade it, I took his foot and threw him away with a hand I created from the sand underneath him, after I threw him I ran upto the dragon and impaled him with a spear made of sand, it dissapeared quickly. I formed a sand sword and ran at the guy, I had enough of him, eventhough I was impressed at his power, it even gave me an idea for a new persona, heh. But as I wanted to hit him, he teleported away, without a trace, I looked around for him some more, but then the dream began to fade, I wanted to go do another DEILD, but my sis woke me up.
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    12. Vulture's Story Chapter One: The hulking bounty-hunter.

      by , 07-11-2014 at 09:50 PM
      WILD
      I recognized a micro-awakening around 4-5AM, I stayed still and SP hit me fairly quickly, The dream created around me and I found myself in a large city, I noticed I had a womanly body and suddenly remembered Vulture, I morphed into her and decided to begin her story here, the name of this city was appearantly Maetropol.
      I decided to take control just a tiny bit to advance the story somewhat, I went into a small alley (I envisioned a bounty hunter café there) I went inside, many bounty hunters were there, all with their unique style, I went up to the bartender and asked for a job, he just laughed at me and said "aren't you a little young kid?" after that I got pushed away by this hulking guy "Leave the bounties to the big guys" I jumped up and yelled in his face "Well, come at me then you incompotent gorilla" He didn't appreciate that remark, he pulled out a large mace and began to smash at me, demolishing some tables and the floor, I decided I had enoug and I went outside, he followed me furiously, I quickly punched the ground and surrounded my two fists with stone. I lunged at him and I had hit him right in the face, he got knocked back a few meters, I quickly fired off those stone gloves at him and he went through to the street where he got hit by a truck. I went back inside, everybody now treating me with respect, I remember a guy coming up to me and telling me I had done a good job, I went back to the counter and asked for my job, I got a discription of a man with brown hair and brown eyes, appearantly he overthrew an evil general not long ago, I'm usually for the good guys, but when I hear what my reward was I immidiately took the job, the reward was 500.000$, I wasn't planning on giving up on that many money. I suddenly felt the dream fade away, I prepared for DEILD right that moment.
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    13. Web shooter,Applejack's dirty hair and weird shit at the store.

      by , 07-11-2014 at 08:24 PM
      I am participating in an airsoft battle at an abandoned military outpost.I am running around,trying not to get hit by enemy fire.While running through the abandoned buildings i run into a bunch of military cadets from the academy, that i could see behind the group, doing some jogging.One of the people in the group is a friend of mine so i decide to sneakily make my way to him so the commanding officer doesnt notice(i distinctly remember that the officer had moustaches).I somehow manage to sneak in without anyone,accept for my friend,noticing.We talk for a while until we cut a corner.There in front of us i see a steep hill rising 2 meters off of the ground and assume that that is where we should go.I sprint ahead and try to climb the hill.I dont think i climbed it the normal way.It is kind of like i am trying to run up while staying vertical,but i am not sure.Anyway,i fail and fall back on the path.While turning around my friend sprints past me and up the hill.He succeeds and makes it but quickly falls back down.I turn around and see him lying on the floor in full MK-5 armor(from Halo),he is having trouble breathing.He is having an astma attack.I start wondering why he does not have an inhaler.I think i was yelling for help but i am not sure.While standing there,i decide to try to calm him down so he can breathe easier.I put my hand under his head and instruct him to try to calm down and controll his breathing.It worked a little bit but he is still having trouble.His older brother runs up to us and he tries to assist me in saving him.We turn around to ask people for help and when we look back,he has died and has turned into a shriveled up piece of skin that i picked off the ground.We are both very sad.The building next to us has a ladder and we climb it to the top and turn into anime characters.His girlfriend also appears.They try to convince me that there was nothing i could have done but i do not agree and leave pissed off.I enter a abandoned factory with the machinery still intact,still angry.I look at the floor and see some kind of fancy sci-fi device,and i feel like i am being watched.I hear an ethereal voice that tells me to pick it up and i do so.I try to figure out how to use but i dont know how,so the voice instructs me to press this not-very-obvious button on the top and it shoots out spider webs.I use the device a couple of times to try it out.
      Now i am home,exiting my room and going down the stairs into the living room.I decide to test out the device to swing around the room,but the web is too weak to properly carry my momentum.I see a shadow moving above the stairs and swing myself onto them.I see a bluish-gray kitten on the top of the stairs covered in spider webs.I come closer and notice that it is having slight trouble breathing.I assume that it has gotten some into its mouth.I help it and clean the webs off of it and go into my room to find out why that happened.When i enter,i see some shadows behind the window curtain and after moving it,i see three more kittens there hiding in fear of something.They look at the top of my closet and i do the same when suddenly,something starts shooting webs at me.
      I am exiting a hotel,POV is in 3rd. person.I am chasing down a guy who has stolen something.I try to swing with my web but run out of juice so i run after him at a speed that surprised me.

      3rd. person view.Rarity and Applejack are fighting about something on some hill.I am playing Applejack here.After some time,the argument escalates and AJ throws dirt into R's face.R in turn throws motor oil on AJ's head but she doesnt mind since she is a coutry girl.She throws motor oil at R and she gives up.1st. person POV.AJ is looking at R while she is leaving.Environment suddenly transforms into my room and AJ realises she needs to wash her hair so she doesnt have motor oil on her head.She exits the room and finds herself at a crossroads between a bunch of stone corridors that resemble something out of an Egyptian pyramid.No success.

      I am that chubby blonde actor guy that died recently(too lazy to look up his name).I am in a store,trying to find things to buy.I scan the shelves and find a bunch of gourme food packed into a fancy bag.I remember there was some kind of big orange thing in there that migh have had little balls on it but not sure.I look for a price but i cant see anything.I want to buy it,so i look to my right.There is a cash register in the corner there with two women.I ask one of them if she could tell me the price but she disregards the question and starts talking about what stuff this bag contains.After a while i get the impression that she is telling me that i cant afford it and leave before she got a chance to finish.I was quite annoyed.Now i am me.I look at the shelve where i found this and i still cannot see a price tag.I leave the bag and pick something else instead.I look to my left,where i left my school bag and go there to put the food in it,but on my way there Fillip H. and some other guys i used to go to school with appear out of nowhere and form a circle around me while arguing about where to go next.They do not appear to notice me so i make my way to my bag on the floor so i can put my food in.I manage to get it and they finaly disperse but they leave behind (don't remember his name) J.,who got very upset that they left him there.I turn around to look at his face and he yells at them with an angry expression on his face.
    14. Task Of the Month - Semi-Success?

      by , 07-11-2014 at 07:53 PM (Death's Other Kingdom)
      Two more lucids to report! One really short one in which I accomplished nothing, and the WILD from last night that was a failure at my own task, but may at least count toward the TotM.

      I didn't post my brief failed attempt yesterday, so...

      7/10/14
      07.10.2014
      Onward to Fail (DILD)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I'm talking to my parents, when I reach up to feel my hair and notice that its longer than it should be. It seems to be as long as it was before I cut it short, which means it's well past my shoulders. How could it possibly have gotten so long again?

      It couldn't have. This only happens when I'm dreaming, I remind myself. I instantly recall the task that I've already failed at once. I'm supposed to find Dreamer and then find an elevator to Hell. I walk off, starting to call for her, but quickly feel myself losing the dream.

      I try to stabilize it... No luck.

      I'm pulled into a false awakening.

      My problem seems to be that I'm too worried about stabilization, which causes me to think too much of my physical body. Since my attention is more on worrying about waking up, I lose the scene.

      7/11/14

      07.11.2014
      Critter (Non-lucid)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      There are three black widow spiders in front of me, having a conversation. They are neutral to my presence. They also seem to be males, which means they're not venomous. Still, I'm not too keen on being bitten, so I am doing my best to get what I need without coming into contact with them.

      I reach around their webs, only to be bitten by a different kind of bug. At first I think it's one of the spiders. I jerk my hand back and the bug comes with me. It's this weird blobby thing; I can't really call it an insect because it doesn't have six legs--- it only has four. Still, it's insect-like. It is white and globular; each part of its body looks squishy and balloon-like except for its legs, which are serrated like a grasshopper's. Its body is clearly intended to try to camouflage it as a rabbit. The bug's hind end is equip with blobby extensions made to look like rabbit ears. It's real, insectoid head protrudes from its back. (Although since it seems more like the bug walks upside down and backwards, like a human trying to do a crab walk, I suppose the head is actually protruding from the creature's stomach). It is the size of a small baby rabbit.

      ((This is the best I could sketch it with my non-existent art skills.))




      I stare in awe at the strange creature for a while before I learn it can talk. This surprises me, despite the fact I found talking spiders perfectly normal. His name is Jack and he becomes my friend.

      07.11.2014
      Journey Toward Hell (WILD)

      NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

      I'm lying in bed awake with my eyes closed when I feel a slight vibrating feeling that means I'm about to enter sleep. It would be great if I can turn this into a WILD since I wasn't even aiming for that. The vibrations grow stronger, and by the second wave I am fully within sleep paralysis. I figure I can just get up and start the dream. I'm wrong. I open my eyes, but I seem to have opened my physical eyes instead of my dream ones (something that I'm able to do while trapped in SP). When I do, the vibrations feel like they're tearing my head apart. I quickly shut my eyes again.

      Surely if I just lie here, it'll HAVE to turn into a dream. I wait, but nothing happens except for more uncomfortable vibrations. I try to move, hoping I can just get up and walk into a dream. I'm completely unable to budge a single muscle, phantom or otherwise. Normally I can imaging rolling out of the bed to get the dream going. This doesn't work either. Maybe WILD isn't the best technique for someone who suffers from chronic sleep paralysis anyway.

      Finally, I'm able to lift my dream arm. I grasp around blindly, reaching for something that I can use to pull myself up out of my body. I reach a dresser and finally manage to succeed in untangling myself from the physical world.

      I'm standing in my bedroom just in front of the door. I do a quick RC just for good measure, but it's not necessary. I'm already lucid.

      I run out the bedroom door, ending up in my childhood home. No way am I going to fail at my task this time! I do my best not to think of the dream ending as I exit my house. It's night time and pitch black outside, unlike in real life where the sun has just barely risen. I sprint across the street toward my neighbor's house. I call out for Dreamer, banging on the door.

      The door swings open and a sleepy looking purple-haired girl stands there staring out at me. Finally! Some hint of success! "I found you!" I exclaim in delight. "Now we've got to find an elevator and make it down to Hell!"

      I grab her hand and pull her out of the house, trying to convey the necessity for speed. We start to run down the road together, full throttle. "I know where an elevator is," she tells me, seeming to understand what's going on now after her brief confusion. "Follow me!"

      As we run down the street, she asks me why I'm asleep at such a strange time. At first I don't understand; then I remember that she lives in Australia. "Oh, right. There's a huge time difference between where you are and where I am," I tell her. "Last time I checked, it was 7:00 in the morning here. That seems like a while ago and my alarm is supposed to go off at 7:30, so we really need to hurry!"

      She leads me to a section of the street that never fails to have some kind of evil within my dreams. I hope this time will be different; I don't need any distractions. Dreamer veers to the right toward a farm that used to have donkeys irl. We run through the dark field toward an outhouse-shaped building. Suddenly, an evil looking farmer in a tractor begins riding toward us. I feel a twinge of fear at his appearance, but I ignore it.

      We run into the "outhouse" which turns out to be far bigger on the inside than on the outside. I expect there to be an elevator in here. Instead, it's filled with hay and dirt. Dreamer and I climb up and hang from the ceiling like ninja's hoping to hide from the evil farmer. He'll never look up here, I tell myself.

      He does. He looks up and sees us as soon as he walks into the building. An evil grin spreads across his face. Once spotted, Dreamer and I drop from the ceiling to face him. The man wordlessly turns and pulls a lever by the door. The floor drops away beneath us--- we're falling into a pit which most likely leads to Hell.

      Dreamer gives me a helpful smile. "Does this count as an elevator?" she asks.

      I don't think it does. I summon a platform beneath us. It's one of those circular platform elevators that I've only ever seen in video games. There's a vague rumbling noise as the elevator slowly descends deeper and deeper into the ground. It's dark, and there's not much scenery, so I start to become concerned with losing the dream.

      "Can't this thing move any faster?" I complain. I run from wall to wall, trying to keep focused on the minimal imagery. It's no use. The dream fades and
      I have a false awakening.
    15. Yeo Wool and Kang Chi, repeatedly

      by , 07-11-2014 at 06:55 PM
      As Kang Chi in modern times, I meet Yeo Wool. She remembers me. We're both shocked. I have a false awakening in which I try to tell IRL friend S. about that dream, and then go on to a few IRL-based scenes - trying to find a place to park in NYC, and trying to form words out of a jumble of letters.

      (Woke up. Back to sleep.)

      In the past. Kang Chi and Yeo Wool are meeting up in this hut in the mountains outside of town. They have to separate, and they're being very loudly upset about it. It's just before dawn, and as a 3rd person observer, I'm thinking they must be waking people up in town, they're so loud.

      Kang Chi's lying on his back in that town at night, looking up at the full moon. It looks massive, taking up most of my field of vision. He's meant to be meeting Yeo Wool soon and traveling somewhere together, but he's convinced himself she won't come anyway - there's something that's happened between them or something she's involved in that's on his mind, but he's not thinking about it directly. He's talking to himself out loud, convincing himself that she won't come and he should just leave on his own.

      (Woke up. Back to sleep.)

      Kang Chi's delirious, standing outside somewhere on the edge of that same town and calling for someone he calls brother - not a literal brother. Yeo Wool's trying to get him to move, but as he starts talking like this, she remembers a time in the past when they were in trouble in this same place and Wol Ryung had helped them. He and Kang Chi had called each other brother sometimes - it's partially a reference to being the same species, and partially acknowledging each other as close while sidestepping the complicated family issue. So she realizes that, delirious, Kang Chi's calling Wol Ryung for help. Wol Ryung's dead.

      Kang Chi and Yeo Wool are traveling together in a very distant place. Yeo Wool's wearing modern clothes - no one else is. They're surrounded by soldiers carrying spears and a froglike nobleman on horseback - not a human being. The two of them raise daggers to their own throats, threatening to kill themselves rather than let the froglike man capture them alive.

      As Kang Chi, I'm outside and looking through a window at Yeo Wool. There's a luna moth on the window.

      And then two IRL-based scenes - catching and releasing an insect, and a visit from an IRL sister's friend.

      (Woke up. Back to sleep.)

      In modern times, Kang Chi's at a studio where they're filming a movie or a show, and a woman is talking to him, sounding very irritated. Without naming any names, she makes it clear there's been rumors going around about someone who works here being viewed as violent, potentially dangerous. Kang Chi's thinking this is about Yeo Wool - she's recently become nonhuman, and the adjustment period can be rough. Which makes this his responsibility. Without specifically naming names, Kang Chi tries to get the woman to confirm that it's Yeo Wool she's talking about. But Yeo Wool's just appeared at the end of the hall, and the woman says to ask her himself and stalks off.

      And then an IRL-based scene involving studying Agamemnon.