03/16/10 Water for the Poor? (non-lucid)
I was in my house with my mother and a couple of other people. I was looking out the window, which was covered with iron bars and razor wire. These things aren't there IWL, but I didn't really notice them. They had to be put up to keep the creatures out. The zombies. The world was being taken over by zombies, and without weapons we would be as good as dead out there. My mom and a woman were talking to each other. I wasn't really paying any attention to what they were saying, but I interrupted them when I saw a dirty looking group of people walking up beside the house in the back. They didn't look like zombies…
All of use went to the back door and opened the inner door. That left the outer door still secured, and that was the one with the iron bars and razor wire. But we could now talk to the people outside. There was a man and a woman and a couple of kids, all so covered with dirt they might as well have been made of dirt. They were asking for water. Water was one of the most precious resources in this zombie-infested world, and we were fortunate enough to have found a natural spring right under our home, so we had plenty of water for now. We could share.
The woman went to get a few bottles of water and then came back with several bottles of water. She was telling the people that was all we could spare, but please take the bottles. My mom kept her from opening the door. She said as soon as the door was open they would come in, kill us, and take all of our food and water. The man swore he wouldn't do that. He said he just wanted some water for his family, please. The woman said she wanted to help. We finally reached an agreement that the dirty family would step away from the door about 20 feet, we would crack the door and slip the water bottles out, and then secure the door, and then they could come and claim the water. This seemed to make everyone happy. So we did this, but as they were doing that I woke up, once again with congested sinuses.
03/16/10 A Microchip In My Eye (non-lucid)
I was in a classroom with Allison. We were at one of the computers working on our project. Our project was awesome! It was a fully 3D space game, and the piece from it had sweet graphics and a beautiful explosion when the enemy ship was destroyed. There were still a few things I wanted to fix, and a few things Allison wanted to fix. But it was due today, and there would be no problem submitting this.
While we were tinkering with the project, Dennis came over and looked at the screen. He stared at our project for a while and then shook his head. He asked how he was supposed to compete with that. Allison said he's not. I said it's not really a competition, we're all doing our own projects to get our own individual grades. He said it wouldn't matter. Once the instructor saw ours, his would get a definite 'F' right away. I said fine, we could go last then. And I really didn't think the instructor was going to compare our projects like that… it would be a rotten thing to do. Dennis went over to his computer. I briefly saw his project, and it actually was pretty good… but then he turned off the computer and walked out, leaving all of his stuff behind. I was hoping he'd saved the work, because once he'd gotten out of his slump he'd surely want it back.
Taylor came over to our computer. He said our project was awesome. He said his would've been better, but he's been sick so he hasn't been putting as much time into it as he probably should've. He said he was sure our project would win, so we could have the prize right now. Prize? This really was a competition? He handed me a golden microchip. The chip was tiny. It looked so easy to lose. The instructor came over and I jumped… and the chip was gone. DAMN! Where was it?
http://threeminds.organic.com/microchip.jpg
I started crawling on the floor, inspecting it very closely. It was shiny… maybe I could find it… I looked and looked until my eyes were stinging from the effort, or at least my left eye was stinging. I got up and rubbed the eye, but that made it hurt even more. Allison was staring at me. She looked at my eye and smirked.
"You have a microchip in your eye," she said. She said she would pluck it out and put it in a case for safe keeping. I was glad it hadn't been lost, but I wondered how it had gotten in my eye. I woke up here.
03/16/10 Shadow Wars (non-lucid)
I was with a friend at a game store. We were browsing around, looking at the different kinds of games. There were board games, dice games, card games, video games… every conceivable kind of game. My friend was looking at a strange game. It projected holograms of lights. Touching the holograms created a response. The light you touched would toggle on or off, as would all the lights in that row or column. It was a simplistic but challenging puzzle game made in 3D holographic form. It was interesting, but not for the $100 they were charging!
My friend and I moved on to the next display and started playing an action game. There was a character climbing the buildings of an abandoned city using parkour. He was jumping impossibly high, grabbing onto impossibly tiny ledges, and maneuvering around the city as easily as most people maneuver around their own house. Easier, even. I decided to try the game. As I played it I felt my awareness shift into the game. I was not playing from outside the console, I was now inside the game itself. Awesome!
I was climbing the buildings of the city, which had been evacuated of all civilians due to a shadow demon invasion. I was looking for the shadow demon. I wasn't wearing a flashy costume, but I knew I was the closest thing to a super hero this city and this world was going to get. And I wasn't going to let them down!
I got to the top of a building and looked over the cityscape. I saw the target. He was towering over the buildings like a giant. He was slamming his fists into one of the buildings until nothing but rubble remained. He moved on to the next building. Apparently he just liked smashing stuff… I fired a blast of light energy at him. It hit him and got his attention. He came immediately after me.
I now spent quite a bit of time running around, ducking behind, and climbing over the buildings as I dodged dark energy blasts from the shadow demon and avoided getting physically crushed under his giant fists when he brought them down like a huge hammer. It wasn't having a lot of apparent effect, but I knew instinctively that it was gradually weakening him. I just had to keep my own energy up long enough to beat him. He was hard to follow sometimes. He would turn completely into a shadow and then fly around to a position behind me.
I had been evading and attacking for a while when the shadow demon did just that. He turned to a shadow and appeared right behind me, next to the building I was on. He raised his two clenched fists and brought them down on the roof of the building… almost crushing me. I rolled out of the way at the last minute. The building didn't fare so well. It collapsed, and I fell down with it into the rubble. I wasn't hurt by the fall, but it was clear to me that I couldn't fight this giant from street level. I had to get back up a building and fast. I ran at and jumped up at one of the buildings, scaling the side of it as fast as I could. I got to the top and looked for the giant.
He was right on top of me! His fists were coming down at me again! I ran and jumped to a neighboring building. I jumped backwards and fired blasts of light energy as I flew. Surprisingly my attacks still hit their target… of course I had a huge target to aim at! I landed on my ass, but I did a backwards summersault and got up immediately. I continued firing energy blasts at the shadow demon. I had the idea it was getting close. I almost expected to see a life bar appear above the thing's head indicating it was almost dead. That didn't happen. What did happen is the thing tried to block me from hitting it in the head, and then it turned into a shadow. I kept firing at the faster moving shadow until I hit it in the center. The hit to the center of the shadow caused it to turn into a vortex. The shadow demon collapsed into itself and was completely gone.
I stood on top of the building where I had been attacking from. I had stopped the shadow demon. I looked around at the destroyed buildings. They couldn't blame me for that, could they? The shadow demon had done that… I had stopped it from destroying everything! I wasn't sure what kind of a response I would get when the people started coming back. I didn't really care. I was thinking I might just turn and be gone before anyone showed up. I didn't want ridicule, and I didn't care to be celebrated and honored. I turned around and looked where the sun was setting. I ran towards the end of the building and jumped off of it to a neighboring building, then to another, and the last time I jumped everything faded to black and I woke. But as I was waking up I heard a voice in my head saying,
"That game was made by Outer Realms Software, you know," a woman said, "Awesome!"
03/18/10 Martial Arts (non-lucid)
Note: I failed to slip into a WILD this night… or I completely forgot the WILD! Either way, the first dream I remember of the night is not my usual lucid…
I was in a martial arts class. Everyone there was wearing their white martial arts uniforms. There were many different colored belts there indicating many different skill levels. I looked down at what I was wearing and saw I was dressed as an Assassin. I wondered why I had come to my martial arts class dressed as an Assassin… and so was my sensei. He came over to me and said that didn't look like a martial arts uniform to him.
"Does this look like a costume party to you?!" the sensei barked at me, sounding like a military drill sergeant, "I'd tell you that you have to train naked today if it wasn't for the fact looking at your flabby body would make the other students sick! Now fall in line!"
I wondered if he realized I had a hidden blade… I got in line and fiddled with my hidden blade. It was sharp. I was thinking it had sharpened up nicely. When I was fiddling with the knife the sensei yelled at me again.
"Stop fucking around, Knight!" he yelled.
I was having the urge to burry my hidden blade in his gut. I started going through the drills with the rest of the class. It was tiring and rather boring. I started slacking off due to being bored. This didn't go unnoticed by the sensei. The sensei came over and stood in my face, apparently trying to look intimidating. I was not intimidated. He told me to do a specific move. I knew the move perfectly, and I performed it perfectly.
"What the FUCK was that supposed to be?" the sensei barked at me, "Never have I seen a more pathetic attempt!" He did the move. It looked like exactly what I had done.
"That's what I did!" I said.
"You did a pathetic imitation of that!" the sensei barked. And then he pulled me to the front of the class. "Let us all use this pathetic loser as an example of what NOT to do!" Everyone laughed.
"I did it right," I grumbled as I played with my hidden blade… oh, the temptation… I was feeling angry and humiliated at the same time.
"You will never be a martial artist!" the sensei barked as he shoved me into one of the other students. That student shoved me back to the sensei.
I don't know if I can say this was entirely an accident… when I got shoved forward to the sensei, I was still playing with my hidden blade. The blade was out when I reached the sensei… and the blade was buried up to the hilt in his gut. He got a sudden look of surprise and pain on his face. He slumped against me now. Everyone else in the room was staring at me. Now what? Was he going to die? Was I going to be in trouble for murder? Or just attempted? My question was answered when the sensei coughed up some blood and then went limp, falling off of my hidden blade and to the floor. The blade retracted. All of the students ignored me and ran to the sensei's body. They were moaning and crying. I took advantage of the chance to leave the room. But where would I go? I was thinking I was in deep shit when I woke.
03/19/10 Party at MoSh's!
Note: My goal was to meet up with MoSh at his place for a big party. Before that I was going past Allison's to pick her up… or maybe she would be on the moon. I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on and managed to slip into a WILD…
I was in the biodome on the moon. I didn't have to wonder why I had been sent there. Allison was sitting there playing with a ball of fire. She absorbed it and got up when she saw me. She said she was beginning to wonder if I was going to make it. I said she must've been early. I opened a portal to MoSh's inner world…
On the other side we were inside MoSh's house. There were quite a few people there. Allison looked around, and headed off as if she had spotted someone she wanted to talk to. I wandered through the house, making my way through the crowds. I looked around the room. I saw some familiar faces. I spotted Asuka talking to someone I don't know. I saw MoSh talking to Nomad. I continued wandering in the crowd. There were too many people I didn't recognize. I didn't really like it. I was wondering if anyone would notice if I disappeared. No, I wanted to at least say hi to MoSh and Nomad before I left. I had come here to see MoSh, after all.
I continued walking and soon found myself in the kitchen. There was not an exposed area of counter. It was all covered with bottles and plates. Booze and goodies. Some of the goodies looked like chocolate. I went towards some of them. I saw someone else familiar. Loaf was at the other end of one of the counters downing a bottle of unidentified liquid. Without thinking I picked up the empty bottle and looked at it. It was alcohol. I looked at the bottle, then at Loaf… great. He was getting dream-drunk. Whatever, it was just a dream. Dream or not, when I tried one of the bottles I found it still tasted like shit. Back to the chocolate. I grabbed some cookies and went into the living room again.
There was a cold draft now. I saw a rather large and intimidating man with long black hair standing beside an open door. He was smoking, the smoke was wafting out the door. That was a plus… I went over to another table. There were small chocolates there, but only a couple. I ate them… they were chocolate covered cherries. Delicious! Dark chocolate! Juicy cherry! Too bad there were only two of them… I stood near the table drinking a soda. I couldn't remember where I had gotten the soda.
I was there when Loaf wandered into the living room. He didn't act drunk… he came over to me and asked if I knew how to get out of there. I said just the usual… the door (I pointed at the open door), a portal, teleport, wake up… Asuka came over with a bowl of more of the chocolate covered cherries. I took a few and ate them. She gave a couple to Loaf. He put one in his mouth, chewed it briefly… and spat it out on the floor. Asuka looked puzzled. She ate one. She shrugged as she set the bowl down and left. Loaf turning down chocolate? What's next? Gabrielle turning down chocolate? Mary and Marty turning down a fight? The apocalypse must be fast approaching… A dog crawled from the crowd and ate Loaf's half chewed candy. Does chocolate hurt dogs in dreams?
Loaf wandered off towards the fire. I followed Asuka. Something had seemed off about her. I caught up with her near the kitchen. She looked a bit zoned. I asked her if she was ok. She didn't respond right away… and then she suddenly looked over at me and smiled brightly. She said she was fine. Maybe a bit tired, but she had just been stopping for a breather. She asked where MoSh was and disappeared into the crowd.
I wandered again. I was getting a bit too warm so I wandered over near the open door. The man there was still smoking. Loaf was there with him. Loaf told him to shut the door because he was letting the warm air out. The man didn't answer. He just gave Loaf a rather nasty looking glare… He blew smoke in Loaf's face, and the smoke got pulled out the open door immediately. I didn't hear Loaf say anything else. He just backed away from the man and disappeared into the crowd. I went over to the man and said a polite excuse me because I wanted to go outside, but I didn't want to be offensive. He said of course, and called me Raven. He said we would have to talk longer in dreams sometime. I stopped in the doorway and looked back at the man. Was he familiar? Actually he kind of was… but I couldn't place a name. I said sure, and headed out into the cold air, which felt very good right now. It was snowy. I threw a couple of snowballs off into the street. I heard a voice from the house. I looked and saw Loaf.
"Raven!" he called, sounding happy, "You escaped! Don't forget the rest of us!" It was about here that I woke.
03/20/10 Healing Asuka and Shawna
Note: I fell asleep with the initial goal being to find Asuka and do some healing on her since MoSh said she has been acting a bit strange lately. I fell asleep with my light / sound machine and slipped into a WILD…
I was in MoSh's inner world. I have been there quite a bit recently and I have come to recognize it quite well. MoSh was there, as was Asuka. We were in the living room of MoSh's house. Asuka saw me come in. She didn't look pleased to see me. She got up and left the room almost immediately. I called after her to wait a minute. She said I could get my own cookies. They were in the kitchen. I tried to tell her I wasn't there for cookies, I was there because I wanted to do a healing spell on her, but she had already disappeared up the stairs.
MoSh looked concerned. He said she had been acting strangely for this whole dream. It seemed he was at least partially lucid right now. I asked him if he was going to remember me this time. He asked what difference that made. He said we were here for Asuka, not to make sure he remembered me. I gave him a brief dirty look before heading up the stairs after Asuka. MoSh followed me up, apparently not noticing my dirty look.
I found Asuka in Shawna's room. They were just sitting on the bed together. I entered the room and both of them looked up at me. They turned their attention to MoSh when he entered the room behind me. Asuka asked MoSh if he wanted to do something that would get her really turned on. He seemed surprised by that question.
"No!" MoSh said after a brief hesitation, "We're here to heal the two of you, nothing else."
"Awww," Asuka said, "I like it when you play with our dogs."
I went over near Asuka. I focused on being able to see her energy aura… both hers and Shawna's Asuka's was a strange color… kind of a dark reddish orange, a mixture of her normal golden energy with red and dark energy is what it appeared to be. Red and dark energies are both negative energies. That was what needed to be cleared out. I could see similar contamination in Shawna's energy, though it didn't appear to be as much. I focused on the song Touch My Heart. The usual golden energy formed around the room and was flowing through both Asuka and Shawna. I noticed MoSh was also doing a healing spell. The golden energy flowed through the room until the spells were done. At that point Asuka's and Shawna's energy seemed normal.
"That looks like they will be ok," I told MoSh, "So maybe now you can just remember this dream."
"I want to remember Asuka," MoSh said.
I was feeling slightly frustrated that he never remembers the dreams I visit him in. "So… if I rip my clothes off, then Asuka's clothes off, and we have hot and wild girl on girl sex right here in front of you… will you remember both of us then?"
MoSh just stared at me… Asuka turned a bit red… Shawna was giggling into a pillow.
"I didn't think so," I said, "So I'm not going to do that. I got stuff to do, so I will see you in a dream a bit later. Just make sure you forget that one, too. Be consistent." I opened a portal and went through it. I was looking to find the chest that had been taken from Lonewolf. Instead of getting to where it might be, however, I woke.
