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    1. WBTB Testing #2 (6hr/20m/None)

      by , 10-07-2023 at 07:45 PM (Dreamlog)
      Previous Results
      <6hr/10m/8mg (Galantamine)>
      #1: Moderate lucid (Seeking The Elusive Fantasy Forest™, Night of Friday 9/8/23)
      #2: Weak lucid (False Awakening and Fade, Night of Saturday 9/9/23)
      #3: Weak lucid (False Awakening, Night of Wednesday 9/13/23)
      #4: Moderate lucid (Silverlight Way, Night of Thursday 9/14/23)

      Summary
      It's 50/50. Some great lucids here, but still not the level I'm looking for. Going to tweak a couple things and run a new test.

      New Test
      <6hr/20m/None>
      3 nights in a row: Re-establish sleep rhythm. Go to bed at 11PM and wake at 7AM.
      2 nights in a row: WBTB. Go to bed at 11PM. Wake at 5AM (6hrs). No supplements. Stay awake for 20m. Return to bed.
      Repeat until four WBTBs are attempted.

      Updated 10-17-2023 at 08:28 PM by 99808

      Categories
      side notes
    2. Night of Friday 10/6/23 (WBTB Lucid)

      by , 10-07-2023 at 05:34 PM (Dreamlog)
      Went to bed around 1AM.

      Pre-WBTB


      Fragment
      Brief impression of a Punch-Out-like video game.

      WBTB
      Ratio: 6hr/20m
      Supplements: None.
      Sleep Cycle: Semi-stable.
      I got up and walked outside of for a bit, doing plenty of reality checks. I try to make the entire time outside a reality check.
      I also review my dreamsign list, trying to commit the top 5 to memory.

      Post-WBTB

      The Vanishing Plant
      I'm walking around in my living room and I do a nose RC out of habit.
      To my surprise it fails and I become lucid.
      I remember that narration is supposed to help stabilization so I start talking out loud.
      "I'm rubbing my hands, I'm rubbing my feet, I'm walking."
      I think about what I should do next and consider taking a bite out of the kitchen table, but then decide against.
      It wasn't all that exciting last time I did that.
      I recall that my goal was to try and observe my dreamworld, to gain an understanding and hopefully a feel for the 'dreamlike'.
      I leave through the front door and go outside.
      It looks near identical to reality, sunny summer day, except there is a plant nearby that is missing the bottom.
      Like in a video game where a texture is missing.
      I note that daytime/sunny is one of the top dream signs, and wonder if there are more 'missing textures'.
      I also connect this missing texture idea to my top dreamsign which is 'video-games or inspired by a video game'.
      "I'm walking around, I'm observing the dreamworld, I'm rubbing my hands," I say outloud, attempting to stabilize again.
      I decide that I want to go somewhere more interesting, so I close my eyes and attempt to transform the scene into something else.
      I think vaguely about changing the season into fall or winter.
      I open my eyes with hope, but the scene only changes slightly. Objects have changed position, but no theme change.
      I recall flying through the neighborhood some more, but my lucidity fades.
      ...
      Later I'm in somebody else's house, lucid and looking around.
      There is a woman I don't recognize, vaguely Hispanic looking.
      "Is there a portal around here?" I ask.
      She replies in the negative.
      Despite this, I open a closet nearby and try to imagine a green swirly portal inside.
      Nope, just closet.

      ...
      I'm at a sleepover at work with my coworker JM.
      Apparently we have to sleep there because there is a test we are running.
      We have sleeping bags setup on the production floor.
      I feel as sense of awkwardness because there are people around us working and I wonder if I should be doing the same.

      Recorded on waking at 9:15AM.

      Notes
      I'm going to start a series of 4 tests for the 6hr/20m/none configuration with this being #1.
      Initial impression is my control and dream length were lesser compared to 6hr/10m/8mgGal (Galantamine). This could be unrelated to the configs, and due to the currently only semi-stable sleep cycle.
      I want to test whether galantamine is needed for more vivid dreams, and also if my 10m WBTB wake time is limiting my lucid dream experience.
      I know that changing multiple variables at once isn't the best science (but I intend to test more configurations later).
      General guidance for WBTB seems to recommend much longer than 10m, so I perceive a likely improvement by making it longer, hence earlier testing of this configuration.

      Updated 10-08-2023 at 10:58 PM by 99808

      Categories
      lucid
    3. Finding The Red Dragon (LD)

      by , 10-07-2023 at 03:26 PM (Oneirin's Dreamworld)
      I'm in a field and something begins to feel...dreamlike.
      "This is a dream"...my awareness raises and I'm lucid. I see a large beautiful tree in the distance in the field and fly toward it. It's glowing with a slightly purple hue in the night. I raise up and begin imagining my dragon. I look down and see a red figure, a wild creature I recognize as the dragon. It makes a high pitched sound, a cross between a roar and a purr as it looks up at me. I wonder for a second if it may be hostile, and I cross my arms, causing invincibility. My worry about its hostility dissipates quickly. It begins to run across the field and I follow. It looks up again, doing it high pitched roar once more, followed by another period of running. I let it be, and head farther down the field toward a house in the distance. I notice two entry points: one to the right which appears to have many people celebrating inside and another directly in front of me, which has small door propped open. I head to the ajar door in front of me, light spilling out into the night, into what appears to be a vacant section of the home. I enter and decide to go invisible. I stick a finger up rather than snapping, yet it seems to work as a male dream character sitting in a seat simply looks right through me. I find it funny that this technique worked. I wind to the left and farther into the house. I notice two DCs up ahead and enter the room invisible. I enter the back room which is quite small and square, with wooden walls. Only one DC is inside, I turn around heading back from where I came and decide I don't need to be invisible. I raise up in the small adjoining room, toward the vaulted ceiling, lowering my invisibility. I head into another room and the two male DCs begin to notice me. It's a kitchen type area with an island counter in the middle. I see some small Halloween pumpkins on a low shelf on the far side of the room. I decide to start exploring and open cabinets as the DCs tag along. I open up on large cabinet to the right which is essentially a spice cabinet. I'm not interested. I turn around and open up some upper cabinets on the other side of the room. I find some large buns, appearing like trolly buns, in a box and remove two, beginning to eat one. It's really good! I then find some Chips Ahoy cookies as well Rice Crispies and I open the box of the latter. I begin talking to the DCs.
      "What is it like to be a dream character here?" - meaning in the dream.
      Boys: "Nothing special...we just do our own thing."
      I begin to leave the room.
      "What should I do next guys?"
      I wake up.

      Updated 10-12-2023 at 10:41 PM by 50425

      Categories
      lucid
    4. Night of Thursday 10/5/23

      by , 10-06-2023 at 06:34 PM (Dreamlog)
      Went to bed around 12AM.

      AI Dream Augmenter
      I'm in bed telling S about a dream I just had.
      I have recorded it on my phone through voice, and an AI program augments it with video and sound.
      It's playing an anime-esque intro about me as a ninja.
      I think it is hilarious and cant wait to record more dream with it.


      Game Night
      I'm at my current home, though it is mixed with my parent's house from northern Michigan.
      We are sitting by the doorwall on the ground ready to play a board game. It might have been snowing outside.
      D, my brother, and my sister were among the group. Some of my sister's friends may have been there too.
      D is standing nearby with a big bowl of goldfish crackers.
      The game pieces are mixed with another game. There are red, white, and off-white. The game was Risk.
      My sister says they were playing something last night, to explain why they are mixed up.
      We start to unsort the pieces.


      Grandma's Mafia
      I'm at a mixture of my Grandma P's past houses. This one feels more like a compound.
      Currently upstairs in the guest room getting ready for a shower.
      My Uncle J calls for me before I can get in.
      ...
      I'm out on the patio. It's sunny.
      There is a wooden file organizer, and there are dollars sorted into smaller sections of it. I think I see a $1000 bill.
      A black lanky man approaches and I'm worried he'll attack me.
      Turns out he's just here for payment.
      I now 'know' the backstory that my Grandma P runs some mafia operation.
      I direct the man to my Grandma, because I don't know how to pay him.
      My Grandma P shows up, gives him some money and walks him out.
      My brother and sister are here now.
      My Grandma P gives me a see-thru golden ball, and there is a sudden urgency to deliver it to a safety shed nearby.
      I run to the shed, make it past a closing metal door, then a sharp turn inside, and another timed door.
      Shed is barren and musty, but more brown and orange hues from the sun bleeding through.
      There is a conveyer belt running through the shed, but it goes through a wall.
      There is a tiny opening to the room where the ball needs to go, but I can't fit.
      ...
      I'm out in the yard below the patio with my brother and my sister.
      We're talking about the big reveal that Grandma has been a mafia boss this whole time, and Uncle J too.
      It has been generational too. We talk about that and look at the muddy yard in front of us where some kids are throwing footballs around.
      I reach a troubling conclusion that this mafia info explains my Mom's death, and that she had been innocent.
      I see here briefly as a ghost, and she seems relieved that I understand.
      I'm hit with an intense sadness and I fall to the ground for a minute.
      My sister notices and asks if I'm OK. I lie, saying everything is fine, and move along.
      We reach the underside of the patio and enter a garden area.
      I'm carrying some garden wireframes of dogs.
      Grandma P is there, and she shrugs off our concerns about the situation, as if we disapproved of her new bingo meetup or something of similar caliber.
      We move up the stairs leading to the patio deck, and I hear an incessant bee or bug buzzing at my ear.
      I start slapping my arm at it, not wanting to be stung.


      All recalled/recorded on waking around 9AM.

      Updated 10-06-2023 at 06:44 PM by 99808

      Categories
      non-lucid , memorable
    5. 1. Into The Water (LD) 2. Blowing Fire (LD)

      by , 10-05-2023 at 10:35 PM (Oneirin's Dreamworld)
      1. Into The Water (LD)
      My awareness begins to raise and I realize that a dream seems to be forming. I notice a faucet appearing in front of me and become lucid. A mirror soon appears behind it. I phase into the mirror, then step right back out. I begin to explore the neighboring area behind me and see that it’s essentially a long room, extending about ten meters to the left and twenty to the right. There’s a desk with some materials on the left side and a lounge are on the right. The room appears to be on the second or third level of a large building. I ignore this area and float outside through the window into the night. I descend onto a lower level walkway that’s situated on the edge of a body of water. Across the water, several small structures are situated, windows glowing orange in the dim light. I decide to fly across, yet as I start the dream drags me down into the water. I try to play around with the control by telling myself I can’t fly, curious as to the effects. The dream continues to keep me in the water. I swim a bit farther, then wake up.

      2. Blowing Fire (LD)
      I begin to re-enter the room with a bottle of rubbing alcohol and I suddenly realize I’m in a dream. I say “I’m in a lucid dream”. I enter the room, hold up a flame and spit the rubbing alcohol into the flame, showing the students in the room. There is a wispy white visual of flame. I head toward nearby cabinets and begin to rub to engage tactile sense. I say “this is a dream”. I leave this area and head to my bedroom in Meadow, running. I lose lucidity.
      Categories
      lucid
    6. Night of Wednesday 10/4/23

      by , 10-05-2023 at 05:35 PM (Dreamlog)
      Went to bed around 11:30.

      The Hallway Theater
      I'm at my highschool between the P building and S building. It's snowing outside.
      I'm running late to English class. I'm concerned that I will be reprimanded for reading Harry Potter for my assignment because I have already read it.
      I reason that the choice is valid because my perspective will be different. I've gone through a lot of growth since the last time I've read it, political stance and puberty among those changes.
      ...
      I'm in an upstairs hallway that resembles S building, but it is much more narrow.
      Still running late to class.
      Hilary Clinton, wearing a blue suit, is power-walking behind me.
      I slow down and let her pass by, wanting to avoid an interaction.
      This tactic succeeds and I reach a dark section of the hallway.
      There are three rows of seats, split into two sections.
      It's some kind of Hallway Theater.
      My classmates are there so I sit down at the left section near the back.
      My friend D and a girl run by and I hear them say something indicating they are running late.
      "Ya'll need to get it together!" I say as they speed by.
      I get some laughs from the class for this.
      "Those are my best friends," I tell them, wanting to show I wasn't bullying random people.
      A couple people I was friends with in highschool (underclassmen from my senior year combination rackets class) S and possibly J, look back at me.
      I'm concerned that they are upset because I specified others as my 'best' friends, but they appear content.
      ...
      We're still in the Hallway Theater, but now there are VR headsets hanging from the ceiling.
      Classmates are putting them on so I do the same.
      There is a floating UI option for lives, and I set it to zero. It applies to the entire class.
      A pong game begins within a shared AR space, and somebody gets scored on.
      That person dies.
      Fear spreads and everyone starts taking the headsets off.
      Not wanting to allow anyone else to be killed by game, one person is ordered to keep playing so that nobody else gets scored on.
      ...
      Kris, Suzie, and Ralsei from Deltarune are in a VR-generated forest environment.
      The trees are massive and reach to the heavens.
      I'm playing this game as Kris. I think D and the girl may have been the other two.
      We are exploring as a team, and trying to eliminate other players.
      I set up an ambush and direct my team to sneak nearby.
      I creep my neck past a branch we are standing on and see two tanks.
      The tanks are the opposing players' avatars.
      I spring into action, and appropriate battle music plays.
      I transform into a woman in a military uniform wearing a beret and open fire on the tanks.

      Recorded around 8:30AM on waking.
    7. 6 month plan - Week 13

      by , 10-04-2023 at 10:41 PM
      Plan schedule is posted here: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ilu...proving-95975/
      With blue color I marked goals with "working in progress" status
      With green color I marked reached goals
      With red color I marked failed, missed or deleyed goals
      G2g - Goal-to-goal
      PoA - Point of Awarness
      PoA' - Corrected Point of Awarness
      (More about g2g and PoA here: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ilu...warness-96103/)


      After the brake my motivation and scores are much higher.

      Dream Recalling
      Nothing special to report.

      Week 13
      Avarage dream memory - 2.2
      Median - 3
      Max dream memory - 3
      Min dream memory - 1



      Recalling at beginning: 0-1 at good quality and/or 0-3 at any quality
      Goal: 2-3 at good quality and/or 4-6 at any quality
      Month 1: 0-1 at good quality and/or 0-3 at any quality
      Month 2: 1 at good quality and/or 1-3 at any quality
      Month 3: 1-2 at good quality and/or 2-4 at any quality
      Month 4: 2 at good quality and/or 3-5 at any quality
      Month 5: 2-3 at good quality and/or 4-5 at any quality
      Month 6: 2-3 at good quality and/or 4-6 at any quality

      Meditation

      Week 13
      Nothing special to report.


      Goals: 2x20 minutes
      Month 1: 2x5 minutes
      Month 2: 2x7minutes
      Month 3: 2x10 minutes
      Month 4: 2x12 minutes
      Month 5: 2x15 minutes
      Month 6: 2x20 minutes

      Day awarness
      Week 13

      Nothing special to report.
      Average PoA - 201
      Correction - 0.68

      Goal: Reach “very high awarness” level
      Month 1: “Non-zero” (> 0 PoA)
      Month 2: “Occasionally” (> 48 PoA and correction > 0.40)
      Month 3: “Low awarness” (> 144 PoA and corr. > 0.45)
      Month 4: “Moderate awarness” (> 240 PoA and corr. > 0.50)
      Month 5: “High awarness” (> 336 PoA and corr. > 0.55)
      Month 6: “Very high awarness” (> 432 PoA and corr. > 0.60)
      Categories
      Uncategorized
    8. October 4, 2023 7:17 pm

      by , 10-04-2023 at 06:28 PM
      I dream that I am living with a family in an apartment on top of a big theatre/convention center. I exit the apartment and explore the theatre where everyone working there applauds for me; doormen, wardrobe workers, visitors, etc. my German family is there as well as it takes place im Berlin, It's raining and I start sprinting around the building in laps at a decent tempo, during each lap, someone joins me and we greet each other as we go around, during each lap they all grow and develop, for example one of the guys does the sprint on a unicycle. In the meantime, I'm still the same. Someone asks about my growth and then says it because they're following my journey as a rockstar. The music in the background then has someone grunt in metal style saying "that is a rockstar" as well as inaudible words repeatedly with a guitar riff in the background as some sort of intro. That's when I woke up!
    9. 1. Chocolate Chips (LD) 2. Mass Telekinesis Fun (LD)

      by , 10-03-2023 at 10:50 PM (Oneirin's Dreamworld)
      1. Chocolate Chips (LD)
      I’m driving down the street in Meadow and suddenly realize I’m dreaming I jump out the window and begin flying upward a bit. I shout “Clarity now!” to increase dream vividness. I then begin humming the song “Sapient Dream” by Slushii. I fly a bit farther in instantly teleport to Syrano. I’m in the bedroom of the main house looking at my dreamcatcher. I head into the kitchen area and begin to shout “clarity now!” and feel my surroundings as the dream is a bit hazy. I make my way to the kitchen area and see if I can turn on a light to increase the lighting, it seems to work very slightly, but not as much as I’d hoped. I consider getting some chocolate to eat and go into the fridge. I don’t find any chocolate in the usual pull-out drawer, so I simply look in the main compartment and find a big bag of chocolate chips. I grab a big handful, pour a bunch in my mouth, and begin chewing – it tastes great! I feel that my mouth is super full and wonder if I’m picking up on anything from my waking body. I head to the main hallway and the dream feels a bit unstable. I continue to chew to see if that’ll stabilize further. I wake up.

      2. Mass Telekinesis Fun (LD)
      I’m at the counter in Syrano looking at my gym bag. This feels…dreamlike…I turn around and I’m lucid. I shout “clarity” as I feel that I have something over my eyes and the dream feels dim. I make my way to the lanai, heading through the glass and begin feeling the walls and nearby ledge to stabilize – it feels extremely realistic. The dream goes to void for a moment and I decide to visualize some palm trees. I instantly appear in a vivd parking lot with two palm trees in front of me. There are several cars and SUVs parked in the spaces in front of me. There are many large buildings behind them, comprising what appears to be a condo and apartment building complex.I begin considering what I want to do and fly upward transforming into a bird. I fly around the area, carving to the left a bit. I land and decide to practice some telekinesis. At first it doesn’t seem like the large building I’m attempting to raise goes up at all, but then I notice it budge. I remind myself it’s all my mind. I stick out my hand and move it up greatly. I then stick out my arm at various large buildings, flicking them many meters into the air with ease. I go down the row of buildings of various sizes, tossing them into the air and laughing. I head farther down the street and think of other dream control. I begin imagining conjuring a fireball between my hands at my side and casting a fireball. I try this a couple of times along with fire blast, yet only get faint red visuals at the door of a distant house. I head around a curve to the left and clamp my hands to freeze time. It feels as though it worked on the dream scene, but there are no DCs to verify. I wake up.
      Categories
      lucid
    10. Bird Flight (LD)

      by , 10-02-2023 at 10:55 PM (Oneirin's Dreamworld)
      I'm downstairs Syrano in the dark. I scan the room and see dad in the far left. It just doesn’t make sense – I’m lucid. I consider what to do and think of practicing some control I float up a few feet, then transform into a bird. I notice myself shrinking and I slowly lower to the ground. I lose lucidity.
      Categories
      lucid
    11. Night of Saturday 9/30/23

      by , 10-01-2023 at 11:55 PM (Dreamlog)
      Went to bed around 11PM.

      Memory Storage
      I'm with my girlfriend S. We're in a long hallway.
      Seems like a hospital. Sterile. Clean.
      There are bodies in metal drawers all the way up and down the hall.
      I can see some feet sticking out.
      S goes to one of the drawers and opens it.
      There is a small paper cartoon person standing inside.
      I feel some relief for finding this paper person.

      Recalled on waking around 7AM.
      Categories
      non-lucid
    12. Night of Friday 9/29/23

      by , 10-01-2023 at 11:49 PM (Dreamlog)
      Went to bed at ???

      Purgatory Island
      I'm on an island in a Harry Potter game.
      Lots of grey colors. Feels isolated and alone.
      3rd person view. Playing as a man in a bowler hat.
      Like Wayne from Mistborn.
      There is a water-logged cave up ahead.

      Recalled from early morning.
    13. September 30, 2023 10:10 am

      by , 09-30-2023 at 10:52 PM
      Basically, I had a dream about my day job. I can't disclose much about it due to data protection laws (even if the data in this context is fictional it would kind of give away the private information regarding my job)

      I have a lot of customers over the phone and this week was a bit more intense than usual. I've been working for over six months straight and not yet taken any vacations. I've been staring at my screen for a bit too long and have to do so much longer as much as I'm very much in the "You should quit your job and do something you love" stage. I have always been. Unfortunately from a realistically perspective, I cannot afford to do so. Since 2021 I have been paying off expensive bills and am nowhere near being debt free.

      Thanks for listening to my rant, sick of this "chapter" of my life and my work infiltrating my dreams.
      Categories
      Uncategorized
    14. 1. Sliding Into Syrano II (LD) 2. Zen Garden in Orchid (LD) 3. Nocturnia (LD)

      by , 09-30-2023 at 02:11 PM (Oneirin's Dreamworld)
      1. Sliding Into Syrano II
      I'm aware as I lay in bed, realizing I'm dreaming and that I may be able to enter the scene. I relax and begin encouraging my dream body to slide as Daniel Love's advice from a talk comes to my mind. I continue to slide and begin to mentally encourage my dream body to stand up and begin walking into the scene. I'm in the bedroom in the Syrano main house and it's a very accurate recreation of my room in waking life. I approach the nearby table and study the contents, one item of which is a small travel mug like in waking life. I rub the table a bit to stabilize. I leave the room and enter the main room, which once again is recreated very accurately. I look ahead and want the dream to be more vivid, so I shout "Claritiy Now!" The dream becomes slightly more vivid, but as I walk forward I get the sensation that I'm waking up.

      *False Awakening
      2. Zen Garden in Orchid (LD)
      I'm laying in bed, thinking that I just woke up. I begin to look around critically. This doesn't make sense...this isn't my room... I'm lucid. I get out of bed in the dark room. and walk of the small platform. I sink into what appears to be dense black goo. I sink further but eventually will myself to float up and ascend above. I see some lamp on a small ledge in the distance. I use telekinesis to move one of the small lamps and it floats to the wall to the right. Another lamp remains behind it - an afterimage of sorts. I turn around and float toward the wall which has a window. I think back to some of Sivason's advice on summoning. I imagine a few items I'd like to find. I then imagine the scene I'd like to find, encouraging the scene to have an orange hue. Suddenly a burst of orange light emanates from the window. I phase through the window and enter a beautiful scene in twilight which appears to be a zen garden. Large white rocks are sitting in the center of a small courtyard with dirt underneath. A one story white building, somewhat resembling a zen monastery wraps around the zen garden (1). I look for cocoa for a moment, but don't find any. I look to my right and see a massive structure which appears to be living quarters of sorts - I recognize the area from a past dream. I wonder if the area on the first floor ahead is the room of storms. I float forward, imagining there will be a shop in that area as well and want to explore in the first floor area ahead, but decide to curve to the right to explore the area to the right which feels like a cross between a cave and a parking structure. I enter the area and begin to reflect on the quality of my awareness, increasing my focus. I curve right and begin exploring the cave area further, looking for a dream character to ask about the area. I continue to curve around in a circle which progress inward toward the center. Once I make my way fully around, I see that there's a bit of an opening into a room and I get the sense that there are several dream characters managing something in the area beyond. As I enter, I feel that I'm waking up.

      *False Awakening
      3. Nocturnia (LD)
      I'm laying in bed and think about recording my previous lucids. I see a co-worker and she asks me do do something. This...doesn't make sense... Nose plug - I'm lucid. I turn to face the corner of the room and think about casting a fireball. I hold my hands to the side and get a sense that there's energy being generated between my hands, that fire is churning. I extend my hand anticipating the fireball. I see my hand extend and wisps of faint wisps of smoke against the far wall. I approach the window and once again will that a scene with an orange glow lay beyond. As I go to phase through widow, I encounter a mesh screen of sorts that bends and prevents me me from phasing thorough it. I eventually phase thorough an see a beautiful, otherworldly city beginning to form from a slightly blurred visual. It becomes very clear and I begin descend into the scene, cast under the night sky. There are several massive structures appearing as cathedrals of sorts, each with a an emblem containing a crescent moon and several small stars in the center. I get the mental impression the place is named Nocturnia and I want the area to become persistent. I feel a sense of awe and wonder. I head toward the largest structure which is straight ahead. I consider which floor to enter into and decide on the first floor. Once I enter I have the option to go left, yet continue into the main area straight ahead - a circular room with a massive vaulted ceiling and a round sitting area in the center in which a counsel seems to be gathered. I make my way inside to introduce myself and take in the faces, many of which appears to be middle aged. They are men and there's one boy among them. I introduce myself, yet they don't seem interested. I seem one of the men to my left has a sweater with a circular logo in the center with several colorful legos within - I find it strange. They seem to be a bit annoyed. I float outward, then feel that I'm bound by invisible shackles on ankles. I unable to move any farther and get pulled back slightly. I can't escape the area. I use strength to pry the left one off, then stand up and imagine cutting through the right one with an invisible blade. It doesn't work on the first attempt, but on the second I'm freed. I float to the side room and two DCs follow me. One DC is holding two guns and holds a gun to my head, then another approaches carrying another gun which I grab. I begin laughing at the DC holding the gun to me and look at him calmly.
      "I'm in my dream body... you can't do anything" I say while I continue to laugh. I wake up.


      Notes:
      (1) I believe this area is Orchid, but need to explore it a bit more.

      Updated 09-30-2023 at 10:35 PM by 50425

      Categories
      lucid
    15. Alien School

      by , 09-28-2023 at 10:14 PM (Lucid Time!)
      The dream takes place in an alternate future where there are multiple alien races meeting at the UN building on earth. They have formed a new organization called the UPO or United Polities of the Orion Arm. I am outside with some Eridians and we are preparing the eridian flag. Their flag is white with a black design. Its sort of a circular design with five rectangles radiating off of it and a dot in the middle. Eridians have prototyped cameras that are wired into their brains to give them limited eyesight but in order for them to 'see' the flag they want me to install this sort of foam that raises up the design in the surface of the flag and use various textured fabrics that they can perceive with their sonar. We want to be accommodating incase the "eridian eyesight" project testing goes poorly. I am working at a table with a sewing machine doing this. We finish and fly the flag. There are many flags that I don't recognize hanging outside the UN. There are three or four Eridians all with complicated looking life support devices on their bodies. Apparently able to handle earth atmosphere and pressure as long as they are wearing that equipment.

      One of the Eridians (there are about 3 or 4 of them with me) says something about spongebob and this prompts me to show them that I (in my Hade form) have some kind of gecko grip ability like spiderman. I climb on the concrete and they are very impressed by this.

      We go inside the UN conference hall. There are other alien species here. Wookies (Star Wars), Navi (james cameron avatar), Septicrabs (Woue), Heptapods (Arrival) and I think Vulcans and Klingons (Star Trek). I get confused about what is going on and a Septicrab shows me a powerpoint presentation. He says they came to earth in the year 2023 and after negotiations went badly with humans (this seems to be a reference to a previous dream, the one where the Septicrabs invaded and my cousin was transgender.) The presentation explains that diplomatic relations degraded so badly that the Septicrabs demanded all humans turn over all their children below an age threshold of 6 years. Then on top of that they demanded 15 billion human babies or they would exterminate humanity. This resulted in a program where governments forced women to have children and then seperated them to give them to the aliens to fulfill the aliens demands. When humankind delivered the last of the children, the Septicrabs then activated a Halo array in a focused blast to wipe out all humans on earth anyways.

      Wiht the ~16 billion human children the septicrabs raised them. They were taught to be accepting of alien cultures and about their own history. Human history generally being presented in a negative but truthful light (a lot of war, greed, propoganda, etc). But also taught about the old cultures and arts to preserve human culture and history as truthfully as they could. The Septicrabs had even been completely open about why they had done what they had done and said that humanity was so hopeless they represented a memetic hazard and could pollute the universe with their bad ideologies and twisted up morals. They believed was the only way to create a humanity that would be agreeable and trustworthy enough to exist on the galactic stage. I remember sitting down and talking with him explaining that I didn't think that was the right thing to do. While I agreed that it was true that humanity in the 21st century was... problematic, that they should not be forced into this state of artificial peace. Even if it took a thousand years they should try to teach the humans that are alive to be better people rather than kill everyone force a complete reset on their culture and ideology, even if it was for the better.

      The Septicrab then explains that they didn't have time. That they had to make a difficult decision. They say a nicoll-dyson beam was fired at earth from about 100 light years away, and that they knew about the beam because they had an FTL ship investigate it while the beam travels at light speed. The dyson beam was created from a clone of bob (Bobiverse) who went crazy and decided he had the right to pass divine judgement on earth. The evil bob is a universe-ending threat and the septicrabs are spearheading a coalition of alien races to stop him because he has stated an intention to wipe out all life for being imperfect. They asked doctor strange to find a possible future where they could win and doctor strange said the only future was in one where humanity was able to put aside their differences and cooperate. The evil bob was growing exponentially and they had to stop him now. They couldn't wait around for powerful advanced aliens to get involved or for their own technology to advance or it would be too late.

      I then travel through a time machine and am back in high school. The blue septicrab is there and he says that this was before the "reset" of humanity. He shows various aliens going to my high school and how they are getting bullied by humans for being different. One of them rips off the Eridians life support and he catches on fire and runs around in circles while all the kids point laugh. I see another one come up behind a female navi and grab her breasts. When she swats them away the kid pretends to be hurt. Then the teacher gets involved and takes the side of the human teenager even though she saw the whole thing happen. The septicrab tells me it is time to go to class. We go to a science class where he is showing how a fusion reactor works. He shows a working model of a stellarator style fusion reactor. It is maybe about a meter across sitting on the teacher desk. The septicrab is explaining different fuel types and fusion chains and the Q-factor of the fusion reactor.

      The various aliens are paying attention and taking notes while the human kids are not. He tells the aliens quiet study time while he pulls the human students aside and lectures them. He says their test scores are the lowest in the class and no human student got above a C+. While all the aliens got As and Bs. He says that if their species is not interested in learning about advanced technology then they will not keep up with other alien races. He emphasizes that they are not going deep into math and only taking about fusion on a basic conceptual level but the human are still not applying themselves. One of the human students argues that the alien brains "work different" and therefore they need less challenging classes and special accommodations. Another student then says the Septicrab is being "racist" because he is singling out the human students. The Septicrab is frustrated but says that if a human student got an A or a B he would not be lecturing them, and that if any of the aliens had been a problem they would be getting this lecture too. He then shows a scientific paper published by Harvard saying humans are proven to have just as capable of brains as all the other aliens. Another student in the back raises his hand. He says that he watches Fox News and Fox News said that Harvard was now run by aliens with a political agenda to kick humans off their own home planet and we shouldn't listen to them.

      I leave and go to the bathroom. I am in hade form but I see I have short hair. I say that this is bad because my hair allows me to do photosynthesis and provides energy. I concentrate on growing my hair and it gets a little longer to about shoulder length. I then see a Septicrab and the Navi girl come in (different one, this one is an adolescent student) and they plant a stink bomb on a timer and run away. I ignore them and walk out. The stink bomb goes off and starts filling the school with noxious green gas and all the students start running and panicking. The school hallway transitions to an outdoor residential street. I am casually walking and then start running and jumping. I notice gravity is very floaty and if I flap my arms I can stay in the air for several meters. I get to the end of the street. There is a lake, some large trees and a cafe area out on a big wooden deck. I jump off the wooden deck, and turn on my thrusters, now properly
      lucid. I see the stink bomb cloud coming for a bit but then will it to go away. A strong wind picks up and blows it away.

      I think about how I want to spar with Madmonkey again. I walk up to a random dream figure and ask where Madmonkey is with the expectation that he will know. The dream figure is Ned from Neds Declassified School Survival guide. He starts giving me tips on going to school with aliens saying. "Remember to have your school install extra-tall doors for Navi, and make sure to have have holographic displays shifted into the ultraviolet spectrum so that [some other alien species] can see them. I wake up.
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