Thread: Help me create this scenario?

I want to be at my school, and suddenly some bad guy comes around the corner. I know I have superpowers but no one else knows, but then I know I have to use them to get rid of the guy~. Then everyone gasps. "OMG, did she just...?"

Help? :3 I think that'd be amazing in an LD. I have a few ideas of who to use as the antagonist, too. ^_^ Your ideas? (must be appropriate for 15-year old) .

That doesn't sound easy at all. Orchestrating a scenario is much harder in a dream than it is in a daydream: you can't just tell a dream to do what you want. Similarly, things won't happen in a dream just because you want them too or hope that they will (though they will happen if you expect them too). Furthermore, note that you can't "pause" a dream in the same way that you can stop a daydream in order to think of what should happen next or how exactly it should happen. Whenever the flow of your story stops, the dream will try to lead the story in its own direction, or if it can't do that (because you are trying to stop and think, for instance) you are likely to wake up in short order (though it's also likely to be a false awakening). Also note that if you constantly need to focus on making your scenario work then you won't be able to enjoy it properly.

Now how good is your dream control so far? For this you'll need to be pretty good at keeping up clarity throughout distracting situations. You'll also need to learn how to summon individuals (your bad guy around the corner), use superpowers , and have good passive control over your PCs (I imagine you could get them to respond appropriately through expectation alone, though you never know ).

In conclusion I think this sort of elaborate scenarios are better suited for daydreams. Dreams have their own strong points, like realism and involvement, but also that it's not you who is creating all the content. It can be nice to experience a story without knowing all the plot details in advance, and the subconsciousness tends to be quite creative.

Originally Posted by Point

That doesn't sound easy at all. Orchestrating a scenario is much harder in a dream than it is in a daydream: you can't just tell a dream to do what you want. Similarly, things won't happen in a dream just because you want them too or hope that they will (though they will happen if you expect them too). Furthermore, note that you can't "pause" a dream in the same way that you can stop a daydream in order to think of what should happen next or how exactly it should happen. Whenever the flow of your story stops, the dream will try to lead the story in its own direction, or if it can't do that (because you are trying to stop and think, for instance) you are likely to wake up in short order (though it's also likely to be a false awakening). Also note that if you constantly need to focus on making your scenario work then you won't be able to enjoy it properly.

Now how good is your dream control so far? For this you'll need to be pretty good at keeping up clarity throughout distracting situations. You'll also need to learn how to summon individuals (your bad guy around the corner), use superpowers , and have good passive control over your PCs (I imagine you could get them to respond appropriately through expectation alone, though you never know ).

In conclusion I think this sort of elaborate scenarios are better suited for daydreams. Dreams have their own strong points, like realism and involvement, but also that it's not you who is creating all the content. It can be nice to experience a story without knowing all the plot details in advance, and the subconsciousness tends to be quite creative.

Is there any way to make your daydreams as vivid as a lucid dream? What I really want is to vividly live out some of my daydream scenarios?

Originally Posted by dreamvacationer

Is there any way to make your daydreams as vivid as a lucid dream? What I really want is to vividly live out some of my daydream scenarios?

If there were, wouldn't it be selling well? There could be some drugs like that, but we all know that sort of stuff is bad for your health (that's why it's been banned after all). Also, they tend to mess with your head in not entirely predictable ways: hallucinations sometimes turn nightmarish (a so-called "bad trip").

Anyway, you're looking for an altered state of consciousness. Meditation can induce some, but isn't about dreaming; it's all about focus and awareness. So the only real option left that I can think of is hypnosis. It is capable of inducing any state of consciousness, so I'm quite sure it could be used to induce some sort of empowered daydreaming state. However, hypnosis is a rare art these days. There are tons of misinformation in circulation (in the form of books as well as on the Internet), and many stage hypnotists don't even know enough to avoid accidentally messing up the psyche of their volunteers (there have been cases).

So hypnosis would probably be your best bet, but it would be very hard to learn enough or find a sufficiently qualified expert who would be providing a daydreaming service.

When you're lucid, you can daydream and see it become real. There are always some surprises, but the general control is there. Read through the Task Of The Month forum to see what I mean. It is fairly easy to carry out a task, but the outcome can be very unexpected.
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Originally Posted by Point

That doesn't sound easy at all. Orchestrating a scenario is much harder in a dream than it is in a daydream: you can't just tell a dream to do what you want. Similarly, things won't happen in a dream just because you want them too or hope that they will (though they will happen if you expect them too). Furthermore, note that you can't "pause" a dream in the same way that you can stop a daydream in order to think of what should happen next or how exactly it should happen. Whenever the flow of your story stops, the dream will try to lead the story in its own direction, or if it can't do that (because you are trying to stop and think, for instance) you are likely to wake up in short order (though it's also likely to be a false awakening). Also note that if you constantly need to focus on making your scenario work then you won't be able to enjoy it properly.

Now how good is your dream control so far? For this you'll need to be pretty good at keeping up clarity throughout distracting situations. You'll also need to learn how to summon individuals (your bad guy around the corner), use superpowers , and have good passive control over your PCs (I imagine you could get them to respond appropriately through expectation alone, though you never know ).

In conclusion I think this sort of elaborate scenarios are better suited for daydreams. Dreams have their own strong points, like realism and involvement, but also that it's not you who is creating all the content. It can be nice to experience a story without knowing all the plot details in advance, and the subconsciousness tends to be quite creative.

I am very good at dream control, even in non-LDs, including summoning DCs. I suppose I could look forward to seeing the outcome.