spellbee2

I love the lucid competitions. Why, you ask? Well, after long lucid dry spells like the one I've had for the past 3 weeks, I become so motivated to post a good score that I pull off nights like this. Even though I didn't score a ton of points since I didn't really accomplish a ton of tasks, I still feel pretty great since I had some quality recall and length of lucids.

I have some fragment about a game where you have to run from zombies. I apparently don't like it, so I leave a bad review of it on the app store.

I woke up for my WBTB, which went longer than expected since my stomach was killing me (late night Taco Bell), but once I did lie back down, I actively tried to WILD, which is the first time I've done that in a long time. And it worked incredibly well, actually.

I'm still in my dorm room, still in bed. Except it's not my bed, it's just a random lofted bed in the middle of the room. I use my right hand to plug my nose, and I'm definitely dreaming. I try to get up, but my torso and left arm are stuck to the bed. I can kick my legs, but I can't move my upper body. Instead of fighting to get out of bed, I imagine myself being pulled downward and make myself phase through the bottom of my bed. This works a little too well, and I end up stuck in the floor. Still, at least I can stand up now, and I click back to above ground somehow. I still can't move my arm though, but I decide this is a good time to try my hand (pun intended) at my robot arm goal. I grab my left arm with my right and attempt to pull my arm off. But suddenly, the dream destabilizes and I wake up.

I manage to lie still and DEILD back into the dream. I'm standing in my dorm room again, but this time I'm completely naked. I'm okay with this though, since I am in my room, after all. I stabilize much better this time, and everything seems much clearer. I decide to walk down the hall anyway. I pass by one room where a friend and his recently-engaged fiancée are making out with the door wide open. I poke my head in and say, “Seriously guys? I know you're engaged and all, but that's disgusting.” I walk by a few more rooms before going into the bathroom. Oh yeah, let's try the arm thing again. I try once again to pull my arm off, but again I wake up. This time, however, it's from my roommate's alarm going off, so I unintentionally move and ruin my chance for a DEILD.

I do fall back asleep and end up in my dorm room again, this time nonlucid. This annoying guy on my dorm walks in and starts talking trash about something I don't remember. I turn to get something from the mini-fridge, and he sneaks up behind me, about to pull my pants down. I swing around and whomp him on the side of his head and start cussing him out. I wasn't really that mad about the pantsing, it was more of a built up aggression based on all the annoying, stupid stuff he's done on the hall.

I’m now in a class that is for some reason taking place in the engineering department lobby. All the students are on couches looking quite comfortable, though I know if I lay out like that, I'll fall asleep and the teacher will yell at me. I instead decide to pull out my phone, but it starts playing music really loud. I try to turn down the volume, but it doesn't work. I'm getting annoyed looks from everyone, so I run out of the room with my phone.

I'm in some video game that I can only describe as a mix between The Matrix and Men in Black. It has an interesting game mechanic where you use fuel to fly around a huge city. You complete quests to gain more fuel, but you also need to have above a certain amount of fuel to access different areas and more quests. So the more you fly around, the more areas that close off because you don't have the minimum amount of fuel. I had recruited several NPCs to fight with me. We were raiding this security room that was guarded by a single girl. But as soon as we attacked her, a ton more security guards showed up and overwhelmed us. As my character was dying, I woke up.

I managed to stay still again and DEILD back into the dream. I “respawn” back close to where I died, but all of my party is gone. The girl is still there, but I really don't feel like fighting her. She’s kinda pretty actually, and in retrospect, she reminded me a lot of Vi. She notices me looking at her. “Do you wanna try again?”
“Nah, not really feeling it anymore.”
“Oh, okay.”
We just spend a while talking, and she takes me into a room with a ton of puppies. I play with them for a while before heading somewhere else. The girl decides to tag along.

We pass by a guy with a quest for us to complete, which apparently involves collecting coins and bringing them back to him. I remember landing a coin on its edge was a lucid goal (it actually wasn't mine, but it was someone else's). I bet him his entire collection of coins that he can’t flip a coin and land it on its edge. He pulls out a penny and tries a few times, but can't make it work. He then hands me the penny, so I flip it into the air. It bounces off of the guy’s head, off of his beer bottle on the table, rolls off the table and spins for what feels like an eternity on the floor. I use a strange mix of telekinesis and sheer willpower to make the coin stay on its edge as it slows to a stop. He growls at me, but finally hands me a huge bottle of coins. I walk off with my prize before I wake up.

WBTB - 2 pts
First WILD - 10 pts
RC/Stabilization - 1 pt
Fully phase through big solid object - 10 pts
Lucid chain - 2 pts
Second WILD - 5 pts
Interact with a DC - 2 pts
Telekinesis/Unspecified Dream Control (stopping the penny) - 5 pts
1 Fragment - 0.5 pts
3 NLDs - 3 pts

Night 1 Total - 40.5 pts
Competition Total - 38.5 pts