26.08.2009 Hanging Gardens of Babylon (WILD)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I woke up earlier, and decided to go back to bed for a little bit longer. I imagined a chalkboard. I started writing on it backward: 100. I am dreaming. 99. I am dreaming. 98. I am dreaming. 97. I am dreaming. Around this time I started to get bored, so I imagined I was using telekinesis to make the chalk write on the chalkboard. Then, I started to get bored again, and I imagined a hot raver chick wearing a miniskirt and flourouscent clothes, bending over in front me and writing on the chalkboard.
Around 92 I began slipping into a dream. I decided to keep having someone or something write, "I am dreaming," just in case I wasn't dreaming, and just imagining. Also, I eventually would be dreaming, and I could maintain my lucidity as long as myself or someone kept writing that.
Then, I made the raver chick a hot latina with long straight dark brown hair, full lips, and long curly eyelashes. Then, I thought she'd be sexy as a teacher. So, she had on a black miniskirt, a business blouse, high heels, and glasses. Then, I thought, "What if she was a raver chick now also?" And then she was wearing big sparkly silver fake eyelashes, sparkly silver eyeshadow with purple on th edges, hot pink lipstick, a purple wig, and a vinyl miniskirt. I got bored of seeing the green chalkboard, so I had her write on the air in front of me in different colors.
That got boring, so I watched her getting banged from behind. That got boring, so I decided I would write it myself with telekinesis. That got boring, so I decided to transform into Pan. It worked! I had huge hairy arms, and smooth pale skin. I made hand movements to make the ever changing pen to write on the air with my telekinesis.
Then, I was on near a mountain pass watching myself as Pan from third person, bird's eye. I pushed boulders down the mountain the block a road the humans built, and to scare them. They came in covered wagons. I didn't trust them. I roared, and swung around my goat head, with huge curling sheep horns. I clenched my fists and stomped the ground, roaring at them. Shockwaves rippled out from my hooves, and as I raised my arms, spikes of rock shot up from the ground. The wagons were tilting because the cracked earth.
I turned away, grunting. As I walked, I magically made the trees and bushes grow at super speed to the trail using hand movements waving my hands from the ground to the sky.
Then, a group of archers that had been hiding in the forest ambused me, they all stood up instantly.
"None of you are real!" I bellowed, and swung my arm, palm facing downward, as if I was cutting them all in half, and all that was left was the smoldering bottom halves of their bodies. I was back in first person at this point.
I stopped, and opened my palm, looking at it. I made a little fireball hover in my palm. I decided to test my leaping ability. At this point I began to lose dream stability, so I decided to start writing, "I am dreaming," again. I kept making myself/Pan write I am dreaming all over the place. It was like magical graffiti. I wrote in on the ground with rocks, I burned the ground with a beam of light from my third eye, then I got bored, and began burning the words in the air on clear wood. I began to lose stability, but I wanted to test my jumping, so I began to forget about writing, "I am dreaming."
I bounded up the side of the mountain. Every time I landed, it was as easy as taking a step. At this point I began to wake up, so, I just laid there, and didn't move. I had to itch my ear. I couldn't help it. After a while, I began to feel this dark wave over my body. I tried to imagine what the Hanging Gardens must've looked like. Then I saw Pan bounding around in my mind. He was taunting me. "You want to see the Hanging Gardens? You want to see the Hanging Gardens?" Around this time, I began to slip back into a dream. Pan was jumping around on a terraced square mound of earth with some water going around it. It was kind of blurry. He kept taunting me. "You want to see the Hanging Gardens? Blam! You just did. Boring, huh?" I felt annoyed with Pan, because I agreed with him. I felt like I wasn't going to get to see them very well because I thought they were boring, and that annoyed me about myself. So, I decided to make Pan/Me write "I am dreaming," again. I continued the count backwards where I left off, promising myself, if I hit 50, I would get up, and hopefully it would be an FA. I sat down in the desert at night and wrote on the ground with fire from my mind.
http://ertacaltinoz.deviantart.com/a...bylon-98315699
EDIT: I actually found a picture of Pan at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon!
I saw the Hanging Gardens suddenly, and forgot about Pan. It was like a living green pyramid rising up out of the ground. It was like I was seeing the entire history of it, from the time of it's completion, to the time it disappeared. It was built far away from the city, not fed by irrigation from a river, but by an underwater spring. In order to see it, you had to ride horses to get there. The desert was so barren, and the Gardens so far, you would die if you tried walking from the city. The built an artesian well high in the air, and then built the Hanging Gardens around that. I kept asking questions in my mind, and they kept gettinng answered.
At the top of the Gardens were four huge date palms. There were trellises with vines hanging down between the palm trees. There were as many different species of plants that could thrive in an oasis as possible. There were terraced levels. The structure was built of stone, and then covered with earth. Birds started coming to roost in the trees and drink water.
There were waterfalls running down the sides into little streams.
There were guardians of the Gardens that lived in round mud huts around the gardens. They were excellent horsemen, soldiers, and botanists. They took care of the gardens, and guarded it also. Only the king and queen and the guardians were allowed to eat the food grown there. Some of the guardians' food was brought to them. The guardians also had excellent sight.
Two kinds of monkeys lived in the Gardens: some arboreal type, and babboons. Only the babboons ventured out into the desert plain, and ate lizards and things.
They had an elephant there on the top, to be the guardian spirit of the Gardens, and to impress the queen. There were daily shipments of food to feed the elephant, so it wouldn't eat the Gardens. It was a shy female elephant, with a sweet demeanor. It got lonely and died. The queen felt sorry for it. It was her friend. They brought a lion that had been raised by humans from a cub. It would hunt wild desert donkeys for food, and gazelles, then come back to the Gardens to sleep. The lion's roar scared away invaders. The queen didn't play with the lion like the guardians did. She would only pat its head, and tell it that it was a good boy.
The inside of the pyramid was hollow. Beams of light poured in through holes in the pyramid with them facing west and east, going up the sides of the pyramind. As the sun rose and set, there would always be sunlight in the room. The sunbeams were reflected all around the room with mirrors of metal. In the center was a huge diamond. The queen was the only one allowed in that room. She would do magic in it.
The water would flow up four pipes going up the sides of the pyramid to to the top center of the Gardens. The stone pipes were hidden, being covered with earth.
The queen would scry with a dish of water.
The queen died, curled up around the great diamond, and the Gardens became her tomb. The Gardens were abandoned. Roots grew into the stone pipes breaking them. All the plants died, as the spring went its own way. The desert covered the Gardens, and now an oasis sits there.
After I woke up, I felt like I had really been there, and I was getting my questions answered in an amazing way, so I kept asking questions. I saw these images in my head after waking. It felt like I was remembering.The queen and her guards would ride the fastest desert horses to get there in one night from the city. She would only ride horses, and only in one night, so the guardians of the Gardens would recognize that it was her from a distance, since the nomads always used camels. The guards would never allow people on camels to get near to the Gardens.
The location of The Gardens was kept secret from the Babylonians, but the nomads knew where they were. If anyone came close, they would ring bells and blow horns to sound the alarm. The watchmen would blow the horns and ring the bells signalling different things, like how threatening the people approaching were, how far away, the number, the direction they were, and such, so that if a guardian was asleep at the time, he could have everything figured out by the time he got suited up, and the people approaching had no idea there were coded signals. The guardians would ride out to them on horseback, and order them to flee the area. They had megaphones facing each cardinal direction with which they would warn people. If they did not start running their steeds away, the Guardians would kill them. There were two types of Guardians. One type would wield a bow-and-arrow and a dagger, and the other would wield a spear and a sword. The spearmen would charge in a line straight at the enemy, and the archers would take the flanks, angling toward the enemy. As soon as the archers got within range, their horses would all stop instantly, then they would fire over the enemy as the spearmen held out their spears like lances. This was only a threat and a distraction, as they almost always launched their spears, then charged into the fray, swords drawn. After the archers fired all their arrows, if the battle was still going on, the would ride up on other horsemen, or men on camels from behind, and climb on to their steed, and slit their throats. The archers were highly agile, and could leap from standing on one horse, on to the back of another, slitting riders' throats with their daggers. The archers were wiry, strong fast men, with horses that could stop and turn on a dime. They would zigzag and fire from a moving horse sometimes to confuse the enemy. The spearmen were big men on a large breed of horse only used in the military. These men had heavier armor, as did their horses. These horses had metal blades on their hooves to trample men on foot, and they were trained to do it. The horses also had metal horns strapped over their foreheads, but this was mostly for intimidation, since horses don't have a butting instinct. The intimidation worked. Attackers thought they were being charged by men riding unicorns.
The Guardians rarely met their match, but there were always stateless raiders wandering about the desert that didn't want to work for a living who were a constant threat.
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