03/31/10 Woman on the Moon
Note: I was thinking I would perform a task of the year today. My first goal was to make sure MoSh got to the mountain on the moon for a task he wanted to complete. Since that would take me to the moon, I was thinking maybe I would do the task of the year that involves beating Neil Armstrong down the ladder to the moon. I fell asleep with my light sound machine on and slipped into a WILD…
I was in MoSh's inner world. I looked around to see where I was. I was in the front yard of MoSh's house. I was heading for the door when MoSh came out. MoSh looked at me strangely. He asked what I was doing out here. I said I had come to get him and take him to the moon, just like he had asked. I said he might be wanting to do a reality check. He looked at me strangely. I told him to do the reality check now, not an hour from now. MoSh looked at his hands for a bit, then he pointed his left pinky at something… I looked to see what he was pointing at. I didn't see anything there. I asked MoSh if he was lucid. He looked at me but didn't answer. I told him to do a reality check. He said he had already done that. I said ok, then we were ready to go. I asked if he wanted to make a shared dream of one of the tasks of the year. I said I was going to beat Neil Armstrong to the moon. I said Nomad had already seen me do it, but that doesn't count since I don't remember it. He said sure. I opened a portal to the moon and we went through it…
MoSh and I were now in a rather small space. It was the interior of a space capsule. I looked over and saw an astronaut in the process of climbing out a hatch. Through the hatch I could see stars. I went over to the hatch, pushed myself off of the helmet of the astronaut, did a somersault in the air, and landed on my feet on the moon.
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"Ha!" I said, looking back up at Neil Armstrong, "The first human on the moon is a WOMAN! Eat moon dust!" I summoned up a flag and planted it in the ground.
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"What on Earth?" Neil Armstrong said.
"Hey!" I said, "We're not on Earth, remember? I am claiming this spot to be the future home of the tower and the biodome."
MoSh stepped out of the capsule and stepped onto Neil Armstrong's helmet. He stood there and looked down at me. He said if I was plotting the location of the tower, we were in the wrong place. This wasn't where the tower was built. I told him I knew it wasn't the exact spot, what I was doing was just representative of claiming an area of the moon on which to build the biodome and the tower. MoSh jumped down off of Neil Armstrong's head and landed right beside me on the moon. He looked back up at the astronaut on the ladder. Neil Armstrong was talking into his transmitter. He was saying he wasn't alone on the moon… there were two other people already here! Who had somehow stowed away on the rocket… but we didn't have any space suits on… so how was that possible? There must be an atmosphere on the moon after all… It looked like he might take his helmet off. I floated up and told him not to be retarded… this was a dream, our dream (I indicated MoSh and myself), but he needed the helmet. Neil Armstrong agreed it must be a hallucination. He climbed back into the capsule.
I told MoSh I would take him to the mountain so he could do his speech. MoSh said it was a sermon. I said ok, we could go there. I opened a portal to the base of the mountain in the biodome. The portal opened and both MoSh and I went through. On the other side we were at the base of the mountain. I saw some people standing around. I didn't recognize who they were. I thought I saw Nomad. I was about to say something to MoSh about seeing Nomad when everything faded and I woke.
04/03/10 The End of the World
Note: As I have for the past two nights, I fell asleep and failed to slip into my WILD. I actually did remember a couple of dreams, however, and my intent must have been good enough, as I completed a task of the year… :P
I was in a city. I didn't see any identifying marks, but I had the idea I was in New York City. I was on the street. I went into a small café on the side of the road. It was a nice little place, a mom-and-pop type place set up to look very homey and comfortable.
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I sat down at a table just to rest. Without even having made an order, a friendly older woman brought me a big slice of apple pie with ice cream on top. She told me to eat up while it was fresh. I told her I hadn't ordered anything, so maybe it was someone else's. I didn't see anyone else in the diner, but I knew I hadn't ordered any. She said the pie is something they give to everyone who visits the diner. She said she wouldn't take no for an answer, so dig in to the pie. I ate the pie. It was delicious. I left a sizable tip on the table. I figured it would cover the pie. I was glad I found some cash in my pocket. I left the table.
I walked through the diner and found an exit door in the back. There was a flight of stairs that led up. I followed the stairs up. I wasn't sure if I should be there or not. I found a door that exited onto the roof. I stood out on the roof in the sunshine. It felt good. I'm not sure what made me think of it, but I decided to do a reality check. I pinched my nose and found I could still breathe. I was dreaming! I became lucid…
I stood there on the roof, wondering what my next goal should be. I was thinking I might go up and fly. I was just about to do that when something caught my eye. I turned to my right and saw something in the distance. It was a mushroom cloud!
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Had there seriously just been a nuclear explosion over there? The explosion looked far enough away that I would be safe. It was still quite a sight to see. I turned away from it after the mushroom cloud dispersed. I looked back at the city. I reminded myself that this was a dream. I wondered what was going on with the nuclear attack. I was thinking about how I could use this dream when I saw another rocket fly low over my head. It was about to hit, just a few blocks away from me… now that one was too close. I knew I was dreaming, but I didn't think I could get to the rocket in time to stop it. I heard a boom as it hit.
For just a minute I thought maybe it had just been a normal missile… but that thought passed quickly. The blast was deafening… and blinding. A wall of fire expanded from the site of the blast. It was like everything was moving in slow motion. The wall of blazing hot flames came towards me and then washed over me. I could not see nothing but brightness. I could feel a hot wind blowing over me. But nothing more. No searing heat. I was not being burned. I had expected my flesh to be instantly incinerated off of my bones, and then my bones to turn to dust… but that didn't happen. The wave of fire seemed to be there forever, but finally it passed. I was now hovering in the air. If I'd had any doubt I was dreaming, surviving a nuclear blast and now flying convinced me it was a dream.
I looked at the buildings. Strangely, most of them were still standing. I flew over to one of them and touched the wall. The spot crumbled to ash. That caused a chain reaction until the entire building had collapsed. The buildings were not ok. There was just a mere shell of what they had been. A shell that would crumble at the slightest disturbance. I landed on the street and walked down it for a ways. The buildings around me were shattered by a helicopter. I waved at the chopper. I know someone looked right at me. He pulled out a gun and shot at me. WTF? I flew up to the chopper and dragged the creep out of it. He was staring at me in shock. I asked him why the fuck he was shooting at me. I said the nuclear war was his fault, wasn't it? I was flying him around and showing him the mess he had made out of everything. Back down into the diner where the nice old woman had been. He obviously didn't give a shit. I fired a blast of fire in his face and disintegrated his face.
I left the diner, causing it to collapse as I left. I flew down the street. More and more of the buildings were collapsing. It was starting to look more and more like the aftermath of a nuclear blast as I would have expected it to look. As I was flying down the devastated street I was thinking this was the end of the world. Soon every place would be destroyed, and there was no way I could act fast enough to do anything about it. The world would now be a live rendition of the game Fallout 3.
I saw someone on the ground up ahead of me. I flew towards that person. It was a woman. I was not close enough to recognize her. She was flying now. We were both flying through the devastated city. How had she survived? Was she another dreamer? Someone with super powers? I flew after her, wanting to know what was going on. I thought I was going to catch up with her but then I woke.
04/05/10 Asuka's True Form
Note: My two plans tonight were to go to see MoSh and find out why Asuka seems to be stuck in the form of a dog. The other goal was to work on the story for the game Allison and I are making for our final project. I managed to fall asleep and slip into a WILD…
I was in MoSh's inner world. I looked around to see where in MoSh's inner world I was. I was in the living room of his house. I looked around. MoSh was at the bottom of the stairs. He was holding a small dog. It was a cute dog. MoSh said the dog was Asuka. I looked at the dog closely. I was trying to see if I could find any sign of negative energies… or if she had just been changed into a dog. I was wondering what had been blocking her ability to change shape. MoSh put the dog down and she ran over to the couch. Asuka jumped up on the couch and sat down there, looking at me.
I looked at Asuka a bit closer. She didn't seem to be in any distress, except for the fact she didn't seem to be able to change back to her normal form. I finally did a simple rhyme spell. "What was done will now undo, return you to the form that's true." Asuka changed back to her usual human form. She was still sitting on the couch. She looked at her hands, and seemed happy to be back as normal. I asked if she knew what had happened to her. She said she didn't, she had been just going about her business when she had changed into a dog without intending to. MoSh sat down on the couch beside Asuka and put his arm around her.
I told Asuka we needed to be sure she was ok. I asked if she was able to change form as usual now. She said she would try. She focused and changed back into the dog. Then she changed into a cat. Then she changed into a busty blond woman in a bikini. And then she changed back to her normal form. She said it seemed to be working fine now. I said that was cool. I said I didn't see any negative energies, but it would be a good idea to use a healing spell on her anyhow. It can't hurt. MoSh and I both used a healing spell on Asuka. I used the song Full Moonlight to purge any possible dark energy from her and replace it with light energy.
I was thinking there was nothing left to do when I remembered the amulet I had gotten when visiting the care bear world. I looked around my neck and I found it. I removed it, lifting the gold chain over my head. I told Asuka it was an amulet meant to generate positive energy. I told her that the one who had given it to me had said it would offer protection to whoever was wearing it. I slipped it around her neck and rested the amulet on her chest. It glowed breifly with a golden light. I hoped that the amulet would do its job. I smiled at MoSh and said Asuka should be fine. It was here that everything faded to black and I woke.
04/05/10 A Spell for Shawna (non-lucid)
I was in a building somewhere. It looked like a large store room of some kind. The place was somewhat dark and dreary. There were lots of boxes around, though it looked like lots of them were empty and tossed aside. I wondered if the place was abandoned. I had the idea it was. I looked through the place for a bit. My first thought was that I wanted to see if there was anything of value in any of the boxes. I started looking through a few of them. I found some guns in one of the boxes. I wasn't interested in guns. I left them, making sure I didn't touch them. I checked a few more boxes and finally I found something in another box. A sword was carefully packed. Awesome! I liked it. I took the sword out of the box. I wondered if there was anything to keep me from walking off with the sword…
I took the sword and walked away from where I had found it. Now I just wanted to leave. I rounded a corner and found there were other people in the place with me. A man asked where I had found the sword. He said they should all have weapons if we were to go against the zombies. I told the man there were guns back there. I pointed out the box I had seen the guns in. He liked that even better. He and three other people went and got guns. They came back quickly. We all headed for the door. A man tried to hand me a gun. I turned it down, telling him I would rather use the sword. It doesn't jam, it doesn't run out of ammo.
We went out the door and onto a dark street. There were buildings towering over me. It was night time and there were dark shadows cast by the moonlight. There were things moving in the darkness. I looked closer. Zombies emerged from the darkness. We were fighting. I used my sword and started cutting heads off of zombies. We were all trying to get away from the zombies. We fought our way through them towards a door on the other side of the alley. I opened the door and went through it… into MoSh's inner world? I did a double take and slammed the door behind me before anyone could follow. I didn't know who the people were, and I definitely didn't want to let the zombies in here.
I was in the upstairs hall in MoSh's house. I walked down the hall and looked into the rooms as I passed. A little girl came into the hall. I recognized Shawna. She smiled at me. I wondered how I had gotten here and what I was supposed to be doing here. Shawna said MoSh had told her I would show her some of my healing spells. I didn't remember that, but I said ok. No reason not to. I used Unforgiven Too by Metallica and transferred first the song Voices from the Macross Plus soundtrack, then the song Touch My Heart from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack and Full Moonlight from the same soundtrack. I don't normally do that many at once, but she kept wanting more of them and it felt right to keep going. Shawna turned away from me and headed down the stairs singing Voices. I heard MoSh down there. I was going to go down and say hi to him but instead I woke up.
04/05/10 Inner Attack (non-lucid)
I was in my mom's room, in her office. We were looking out the window into the carport. We went over to her computer and were looking at the screen. There was an image of a space station in orbit. I had the idea it was the international space station, although I thought it didn't look right. My mom was talking about when I went on the space station I would have to be careful not to break any bones. She said bone density decreases when in space. I said it would be ok, the station has artificial gravity. My mom said that wouldn't help, it's a virus in space that decreases bone density. I just started at her blankly. I said the reason bone density decreases is that when there is no gravity, there is less for the bone to support. And thus there is no need to maintain the bone density. I said that would be ok with the artificial gravity. My mom just seemed to think I was nuts.
I left my mom's office now and went to the living room. I cuddled Princess for a bit and then went out into the front yard. I didn't think it was odd when there was a plane or a space ship hovering over our yard. A ladder was lowered down. My mom was at the door. She told me to be careful up there and make sure to come back safely. I told her I wasn't even going to be leaving orbit. It was no problem. I climbed up the ladder to the hovering craft. A hatch opened and I climbed in.
The ship moved fast. Very fast. The ground receded below us and it was hardly any time at all before we were in orbit. But it wasn't realistic… there was no force from the speed. Normally that type of acceleration would produce a lot of Gs of force, but it didn't. We flew over the planet down below now. I saw the space station up ahead. It looked pretty cool. I was actually going to be on it! I hadn't been feeling any excitement until now, but it was coming. We approached the station and docked. Since there was no artificial gravity, when I unbuckled there was no gravity and I floated to the hatch. It opened and I went through.
Once I was in the space station, the hatch closed behind me. I knew the shuttle was leaving. I was here for a while now. I floated over to a window and looked outside at the earth down below. It was beautiful. I sat there watching for a while. I figured I would go from the central area into the outer ring where there was artificial gravity. There was a hatch in the floor of the room… or maybe it was a wall, or the ceiling… it was hard to tell with no gravity. I opened the hatch and floated through it.
I was now going down a long round corridor. I could see the exit up above. I wondered if I would end up dropping very far to hit the ground. I hadn't thought about that before. And I was caught in the gravity now. It was steadily increasing. How could that be? I wasn't in the moving part yet! I figured it was increasing as I headed towards the outer edge. I flipped over and figured at least I could land on my feet. I dropped through the opening down below me and dropped onto solid ground…
And now I was inside MoSh's inner world. I looked around. WTF? I looked up. A portal was closing. How had I gotten here? I looked to my right and saw MoSh floating about three feet off the ground. Nomad was on the other side of MoSh. Both of them were looking at something. I looked at that same something. There was a woman there with messy brown hair. She didn't look pleased. I wondered if my arrival had contributed to her displeasure. A name came to mind. S? What was she doing here? How had she gotten here?
"Hey!" I called to her, "What the fuck are you doing here? Haven't had enough kidnapping?" I remembered her previous attempt to kidnap and brainwash Asuka. MoSh had gone and gotten her back safely.
"This isn't over!" S said to us, "I will be back! And next time I won't be alone!"
"What?" I asked, "Running away like a little baby?"
S glared at me and then disappeared into thin air.
"Come back here, you flakey jerk!" I yelled at the spot S had vanished from.
MoSh landed now. I went over to him and asked him if he was ok. He said yeah. I asked about Asuka. He said he thought she was ok. He said she would have to go somewhere safe. He said she wouldn't be happy, but he didn't want her to get hurt any more. He looked quite upset. I asked him if Asuka needed healing. He said he would go see her. I asked Nomad what had happened. He said it looked like S had run for her mommy as soon as we had shown up. I figured I would follow MoSh and see if Asuka needed healing. I was about to follow them when I woke.
04/10/10 Damn Parasites! (non-lucid)
Note: I have had a lot of negative energy lately. The previous night I had some parasites attacking me, but my friends helped me out with them. I still feel there are more. I once again had friends offering to help, so that was going to be my first goal. Get rid of the parasites. I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on, although I didn't do it in order to slip into a WILD this time… I was trying to relax and purge negative energy.
This dream was a bit fragmented… I felt quite out of it most of the time. I was lying on a bed of soft grass. I think I might have been in the Healing Glen. I could sense friendly people around me. This place felt safe. I felt very weak, like I didn't have any energy. So I just lied there. It was very comfortable. I heard voices around me. I recognized them. Nomad and Allison. Hadn't Pablo said he would come to help? Yes, but he'd said I would have to telepathically contact him… That was harder than I would have expected. I sent out a telepathic beacon to bring Pablo. Then I slipped into sleep for a bit.
I was awake again, sort of. I actually opened my eyes a bit. There was a fox looking at me. He was cute. I wanted to pet him. I was too tired to actually lift my arm and pet him. That sucked. A voice… the Crystal Golem / Frost Giant / Stone Golem / a bunch of other names… said for me to relax. He said I was partially sedated so they could more easily get the parasites out. There would be time for petting Pablo later. Petting Pablo? He must be the fox. I drifted off.
I was conscious again. I didn't open my eyes. I heard a portal. Someone had come through. I heard another voice. I recognized MoSh.
"Raven is here!" MoSh said, "I had been looking for…"
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Allison demanded, no doubt of MoSh, "She's not going with you to fight those two idiots. Can't you see she's in no condition for that?"
"But I…" MoSh tried to start.
"Not that her condition would matter to you!" Allison continued, barely stopping for a breath, "So how about you just stay the fuck away from her? And while you're at it, stay the fuck away from me, too!"
"Wait a min…" MoSh again tried to talk.
"No!" Allison said, "I'm telling you to back the fuck off! Get the fuck out!"
"Listen…" MoSh got out only one word.
"You listen to me!" Allison said, "Until you learn a little compassion and respect for others, stay the fuck away from us!"
"Either stop fighting," the Crystal Golem said, "Or one of you please go. This is a place of healing, we do not need this negative energy."
I heard a brief silence and then a portal. Was MoSh gone? Wow… Allison had sure been pissed… and all in my defense… I wanted to hug Allison now, but I still didn't have the energy and I slipped back asleep.
I came partially awake one more time during this dream. I could feel Allison on my left, Nomad on my right, Pablo was right next to Nomad, and the Crystal Golem was at the top of my head. I heard Allison say something about things getting hot. I didn't feel hot. I felt cold inside. Then I found out what she meant. There was suddenly fire flowing through me. But Allison had been wrong… it didn't burn or feel too hot. It felt wonderful. I could feel it banishing the cold out like the summer sun on an ice cube. I was so comfortable that I fell into a deeper sleep and didn't awaken during this dream.