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Don't mind this... this isn't really a dream at all. Just a silly attempt for the IOSDP lucid daydreaming experiment: http://www.dreamviews.com/f144/lucid...riment-135918/

All signs point to this being entirely in my head. My reasons are that I've never practiced this before, and that things were pretty static and boring. Plus, only the people whose names I could remember at the time showed up for me. So it's probably a failure on my part. The imagery I got was kinda funny though, so you all get to see that and laugh with me, at least. (I also apologize in advance... I don't even know all of your genders so it's pretty likely I got those wrong, too! Silly me.)

So... first thing's first, I get to the pyramid and initially I seem to be the only one here. I pace around a bit and end up leaning against the pyramid. Before long it seems like the first other person shows up. Supposedly, it's Windy. She(?) shows up as a somewhat short person, maybe 5'4 or 5'5. She's got this pink hair and it's in some pigtails. She's pretty thin, too. She also seems to be wearing this sorta frilly dress thing. Not too frilly, but overall gives off the anime vibe. Oops. I introduce myself, as Takuma. (I'm really hoping someone picked up on that name! Since I didn't tell you beforehand and it's not terribly common, I imagine it would be a great Sync.) We do basic introductions, I think I mention that I doubt she actually looks the way I see her, and sort of mention how she looks to me. Unfortunately she doesn't do much the rest of the time I'm there. Warned you things were kinda static.

Not long after this, another person shows up. This one is supposedly Woodstock, though by request I called him Ryan. He shows up in generic t-shirt and jeans, and possibly a beanie hat. It's hard to pick up on details. Roughly my height (5'10), and somewhat more muscular than me, but not ripped by any means. Just in actually decent shape. He just seems to be skateboarding all over the place, even though I don't see how you'd skateboard on sand. He's also skating up and down the pyramid, across sideways, and all like physics don't apply to him. He seems to be showing off. I introduce myself again and here I say that yes, I'm a furry. (More on that later). We do end up chatting more later on, but I've already forgotten what. This was about as fuzzy as it gets.

At this point I round the corner looking for more people, and find a little hallway set into the side of the pyramid. I walk in a little bit and it's really dark. There's a guy there, thin, wearing all black. Can't place a name on him or anything, he doesn't really say anything, so I just leave. Soon after I find who is supposed to be Cay. She's got much more casual clothes on. A green sorta long-sleeved t-shirt, some shorts (maybe jean shorts?), mid-length, straight brown hair, and a roundish face. She's also a bit closer to my height. (I might remember some of this stuff from earlier in the thread... oops!) We also have our brief introductions.

Here I spend several minutes just trying to rack my brain for the names of the others, because I know I'm doing things wrong and they won't show up if I don't have their names. I don't want to stop to check, though. I end up remarking on how Woodstock is a show-off again because he's STILL skateboarding like a crazy guy, like I last saw him. Then Cay kinda starts floating into the air, as if in response. I float up too and talk about how I love doing this in dreams, but the feeling in this daydream doesn't begin to compare.

Shortly, the non-descript black-clothed guy from inside the pyramid comes out. He looks kinda angry with us. I tell him we mean no harm and we're just doing an experiment, and he grumbles a bit about how we're being disrespectful. I tell Woodstock to stop skateboarding, and he seems to at least relent a bit, going back inside. This is where I jump out. It's about 5:20 EST, or 3:20 my time.

And with all that done, what you may be wondering... how did I look? I tried to present myself as an anthropomorphic red coyote (I AM a furry), wearing a sort of white samurai robe. I would have had green eyes too. Unfortunately I had plenty of trouble just trying to keep that form because well, it's pretty ingrained to walk around looking like you do in waking life. You all probably did that, which means I'm sure I failed at least on Windy's side. Sorry Windy.

Okay, so I've had a couple interesting dreams since I've started work. My brain is too frazzled to remember which ones were on which days, so I'm lumping them together. All of the recent dreams that I remember involve videogames in some way.

One dream involved me playing Ocarina of Time, or at least it's supposed to be that. I'm running around in a primitive 3d environment just exploring, while explaining things to someone, probably my little brother. In this dream, I end up exploring and use a timed trap or something to an unseen purpose. The trap sets some sort of timer on you, and when it goes off you spontaneously get blown up, like you're holding a bomb, and you get knocked over. You're supposed to disarm this trap in a puzzle or something... instead I grab it and run to a jump that's just a bit too far for Link to make it. I time it so that the explosion goes off in mid-air, giving me the last bit of propulsion to reach the far ledge. I explain that this game handles sequence-breaking poorly, with random glitches and freezes. (In reality, it's quite complacent and stable... speedrunners rely on this.) The game freezes, and I mention that at least it's never been known to delete a save... when I load it back up and select my save, as if I tempted the gods of Irony, my character is back at the beginning of the game. (And now it looks like Link to the Past. But whatever...) I'm kinda upset by this, to say the least.

The other dream is harder to explain. The game I remember playing is some sort of mix between Elona and Dwarf Fortress. There are a bunch of different "levels" with objectives that have to be completed to reach the end (something that isn't in either game, but hey). I recall that there are three different difficulties, and to have a win at a certain difficulty, all the parts have to be done at the same difficulty. There's also an "extra" difficulty, which makes it a lot harder but has a unique map different from the standard ones. Each section unlocks that after you beat it normally.

Anyways, the main bit I actually remember is there are some bosses to be dealt with, longstanding ones in terms of the plot, and we enter a huge area to try to take them on. It's supposed to be a big confrontation. But the game just kinda stalls out and freezes, refusing to finish loading the area. I guess it was TOO big. I had my character on the screen at this point, but I couldn't do anything with him. So, I end the game with task manager and restart it. Getting back to that point, it freezes even sooner. I suppose it's unstable from crashing in the middle of loading. This time I can look at the parts of the map that did load, and the perspective shifts over to almost all Dwarf Fortress, ascii style. And I see why the computer is struggling -- this map goes hundreds of floors up, like any good dwarven megaproject. One of the guys we were supposed to defeat would have been right at the top, and to get to him we would have had to climb countless stairs and defeat countless lackeys. It would have been a good final confrontation... oh well. That's all I remember for now.