Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

well I'm glad it turned out ok. I was fighting in a dark church last night with SHM... >.>

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

well I'm glad it turned out ok. I was fighting in a dark church last night with SHM... >.>

Just give yourself some time and these defenses will be as instinctive as breathing, lucid or non-lucid!

Note: I had plans tonight to get together with MoSh and Markus, then MoSh was going to bring Asuka and we were going to go out somewhere to do something fun. No fighting, just something fun. I fell asleep with the intent to go get MoSh, using my light / sound machine to slip into a WILD…

I was in MoSh's inner world. I looked around for MoSh. I was just outside his house. I went over to the door and found it wasn't locked. I opened it and went inside. MoSh was there. He was standing there looking at another person. Asuka was standing beside him. I looked closer and I recognized the third person. The third person looked like Data from Star Trek. Data is in the picture shown here, although the kitty wasn't with him in MoSh's inner world. (An extra picture of a kitty in my dream journal is always a good thing!)

I went over to MoSh and looked at him looking at Data. I asked what was going on here. He said he was trying to find out what all Data could do. Data said he was programmed to now instruct MoSh to do a reality check. MoSh asked if that wasn't the coolest thing. He said now he just needed to get a Data in his dreams to tell him that when he is dreaming. Data looked at me strangely and then back at MoSh. He levitated off the ground a couple of feet. He asked MoSh if that would be possible to have happen in waking life. MoSh said of course it is for an android! Data paused and then landed again. He walked right over in front of MoSh, reached out, and pinched MoSh's nose. MoSh told him to quit that. Data said this was a dream. MoSh took hold of Data's hand and pulled it away from his nose, but data didn't let go. MoSh was now breathing through his nose in spite of it being pinched… and that apparently was proof of something.

"This is a dream!" MoSh said, sounding surprised.

"Yeah," I said, "You wanted to see what Data could do, and apparently you've been playing around with him. It was now that we were exploring a few of Data's functions.

• Reality checks: Data is programmed to either tell MoSh to do a reality check or, apparent from when data pinched MoSh's nose for him, do the reality check himself.
• Shield: Data has been programmed to do maintenance on the shield around MoSh's inner world, making repairs and adjustments as needed to keep hostiles out.
• Replication: If there is a time MoSh needs to summon an object and for some reason it isn't working, Data has a built in replicator and can instantly generate one… One of any of the nearly endless items that are logged in his databases.
• Traveling: Data has a detailed map of the places MoSh might want to go on the dream plane, including this plane and the nearby dimensions. Data is also programmed to assist with opening a portal if necessary.
• Training: Data is programmed to be able to make a solid-state hologram that can be used for training against or assistance in just about any task that needs to be done. The hologram can be programmed with a variety of different abilities to meet training or assistance needs.
• Scanning: Data is programmed to monitor MoSh's inner world for signs of intruders of possible security risks.
• Information: Data has access to the vast network of data and information stored within the altered Borg collective that I reprogrammed a long time ago… meaning his information base is expansive and still growing.
• AI: Data is a high functioning AI and is capable of easily learning whatever new information and functions that may be required.

Note: There may have been other things Data is programmed to do, there most likely are, but I don't remember any more at this time.

MoSh was talking to Data and looking at some of his functions when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I was in MoSh's inner world. I was lucid. I don't know how I became lucid. I remembered my goal. It was to pick up MoSh and Asuka and then meet up with Markus and go on a double date. I went into the house uninvited. I didn't really think about it. MoSh was in front of me. He was staring at me strangely. I told him to do a reality check. He stared at me. I asked where Data was. Data entered the room and said hello to me. I pointed at MoSh. Data told MoSh to do a reality check. MoSh stared at me. Data got between MoSh and me. Data pinched MoSh's nose. That snapped him out of his trance.

"Hey!" MoSh said as he pulled Data's hand from his face. Data told MoSh that he was dreaming. MoSh said he knew that. Data said good and left the room. Asuka came downstairs. She said we could leave Shawna with Serena. Shawna came downstairs, too.. I opened a portal to my inner world, to Serena and Vegeta's house. We all went through it. Shawna stayed there and I opened a portal to the biodome. MoSh, Asuka, and I went through it.

On the other side of the portal we were in the biodome. I saw Markus there. He looked like he had been waiting for something. He saw me and smiled. He asked if we were all ready to go. I said yeah. I said I would show him my Fire Valkyrie. MoSh said he didn't know we were using our ships. I said yeah, that was how we would get there. I said he could just follow me in his Delta Flier. We all went into the tower and up in an elevator until it stopped and opened. We all stepped out into the landing area. MoSh and Asuka went to the Delta Flier and I led Markus to my Fire Valkyrie.

"Wow!" Markus said as he looked at the Fire Valkyrie, "This is yours?" I said yeah, it was. I said we were going to head to another world in it. I flew up to the cockpit and opened it. There were two seats, one behind the other. I landed in the pilot's seat to have a seat behind me. I motioned to Markus quickly flew up and sat down. The cockpit closed. We lifted off and flew out of the landing area. I saw MoSh's Delta Flier out there. I looked at my computer and it had a course marked. The course to the world we were going to. I locked in the course and we flew off into the stars.

We flew through the stars, past nebulas, past a multi-star system… it seemed Q had plotted the scenic route. I was sure there must have been a quicker way to get to our destination. The flight continued for a short time longer before I saw a planet in the distance. We entered into orbit and flew down to the planet surface and landed in an open field where we all got out. I looked around

We were in a large green field. I was standing beside Markus and MoSh was beside Asuka. Both of our ships were landed near us. Q appeared. He pointed at the forest that was right up next to the field. There was a trail disappearing into the trees. Q said that trail would lead to the pool and the waterfall. He said it wasn't an especially long hike, and it was a very nice one. Markus introduced himself to Q, and held out his hand to shake hands with Q. Q said he was already familiar with Markus and didn't shake hands with him. Markus said he hadn't met Q in person before. Q said that isn't always necessary. He indicated the trail and then disappeared.

MoSh, Asuka, Markus, and I went down the trail. It was a beautiful forest. Before long I noticed that the trail was running a stream. MoSh and Asuka were very close to each other. Markus was very close to me on my right. He put his arm around me as we continued walking. I could hear birds in the trees and there was a nice breeze blowing. It was a very pleasant day. I saw some of the birds, and a couple of other animals. The other animals looked kind of like small dragons… I thought that was strange. Small furry dragons flew through the trees, staying mostly hidden. I saw one of them was eyeing MoSh rather closely. I wondered what it was looking at. I didn't get the idea they were hostile in any way so I didn't pay any further attention to the animals.

After a while we reached a pool of water in the forest. The pool fed into the stream we had been following. It was a crystal clear pool. I looked across the pool and saw a waterfall on the opposite side. I could see a cave peeking out on the left side of the waterfall. Due to the rocks surrounding the waterfall, the only way to get to the cave would be to swim. I remembered that Q had mentioned that. I put my hand in the water. It was cool, but pleasant. I dove into the water and changed into a mermaid as I did. I surfaced and looked back up at MoSh, Asuka, and Markus. Markus floated over the pool, levitating. He said there really is no need to get wet… I asked why he wanted to avoid getting wet. I splashed him with my tail. He was now all wet. I dove back under the water and swam the rest of the way to the cave, pulling myself out onto the rocks and changing back to a human form.

Markus landed beside me, all wet. The mist from the waterfall would have gotten him wet even if I hadn't. MoSh surfaced from the water and climbed onto the rock, followed shortly by Asuka. Asuka was in a bikini that looked great on her. MoSh couldn't take his eyes off of her. We entered the cave. The interior was filled with crystals all over the cavern. I summoned a ball of fire floating in the air in the middle of the room. The crystals picked up the light and reflected out all the different colors of the rainbow. The entire chamber was now filled with rainbow light. It was beautiful. I looked over to see what MoSh and Asuka were doing… and they were kissing. I turned away to give them a bit of privacy and found I was looking directly into Markus' eyes. I was wanting to kiss him again… but I didn't want to accidently push him away… and then we kissed. It was a nice kiss, among the rainbow colored lights in the cavern… I lost my lucidity here… and I also don't remember any more, although I don't think I woke up at this point…

Note: Last night MoSh had a dream where Asuka appeared to be infected with some dark energy. So my first goal was to make sure she was healed. A group healing was planned to include Asuka, MoSh, Nomad, Angel, Markus, Basara, and me. This was my goal as I fell asleep, though I failed to enter my WILD…

Another note is that a lot of my memories were fragmented from last night, so this is actually a collection of fragments from several dreams…

I was in the biodome. I was lucid at this point. MoSh and Asuka were off to my left. Asuka looked very tired. She looked like she might pass out. She had dark circles under her eyes. She was breathing as if she had just run a marathon. I knew we had to do healing on her. A portal opened and Basara came in. Basara's portal hadn't even closed before another portal opened. Nomad and Angel came through the portal. Angel gave me a dirty look. I wondered why she was looking at me like that. Markus came from a different part of the biodome. He said he'd been exploring and this was an amazing place.

We were all in a circle. I noticed Angel was still giving me a dirty look. She passed close to me once and I heard her say that Nomad is hers, so I had better just keep my distance. I told her that I am not interested in Nomad in 'that' way… he's more of a brother and a friend, not so much a boyfriend. She said I know what she is talking about. She gave me one more dirty look before going over beside Nomad and smiling at him. She took her place in the circle. We all did a healing spell. Golden energy filled the glen of the biodome. I was making sure to focus extra healing energy on Asuka, since MoSh had said she was infected with dark energy. Golden energy was flowing through all of us, and it was very relaxing and warm.

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I was at a hotel with my mother. We needed to stop for the night. We parked in the parking lot and I got out and went into the office. There was a fat, sweaty Mexican behind the counter. He asked me what I wanted…

Suddenly I was not there with my mom, I was there with my ex boyfriend, James. He said we would need to stay here for the night. I didn't want to spend the money. I relented that we didn't have a choice. I told the man we needed a room, but I needed it to be a cheap one. He said fine and handed me a key. I walked past James and to the hotel area. The hotel looked more like a tropical hut, made out of wood with a grass roof. There were many room lined up, but the style was much like this picture.

I found the correct room and unlocked it. I went inside and found the room was completely empty. No bed, no chairs, no nothing. I wondered what kind of joke this was. I was annoyed that even if I asked for a cheap room it should have some kind of bed. I was going to go back to the office and complain about this one.

I went back to the office with my partner… I wasn't there with James any more… I was there with MoSh. I still didn't notice that the person I was with kept changing. I told MoSh that there wasn't even a bed in the room. MoSh said it didn't really matter. I told him I had paid for a room with a bed, I was going to have a bed in the room. MoSh followed me back to the office. There was no one in the office now. I waited for a few minutes and then a woman came into the room. She smiled at me. She had long dark hair and blue eyes. She asked what brought me there. I said my room had no furniture. She said it would be fixed before we got back there.

MoSh and I went back to the room. Looking inside we found it was now furnished in a very luxurious way. It didn't look like the interior of a tropical hut, it looked more like the interior of a mansion. MoSh seemed pleased with it. The bed looked big and comfortable. MoSh went over and flopped down on the bed. He said the bed was great. I looked around the room. There was only one bed. Was I supposed to sleep with MoSh? Well, the bed was large enough… I supposed it wouldn't matter as long as Asuka didn't come after me with a butcher knife looking for revenge… But first I wanted to look around this place a bit more. I told MoSh I would be back later…

I left the room and went out by the pool. There were quite a few people in the pool. I didn't have a swim suit. I wanted to swim anyway. I pulled my jean pant legs up and stepped into the water. I could at least wade. Someone pushed me. I fell into the water. I surfaced and looked to see who had pushed me. There was some biker dude back there, he was laughing his ass off. So pushing me into the pool was the funniest thing he had ever seen? He must have a boring life… At that point I laughed as well. I climbed to the edge of the pool and reached towards the biker to help me out. Instead of letting him help me out, however, I pulled him into the pool. Now everyone else was laughing. The biker somehow found a motorcycle on the bottom of the pool and rode it out of the pool and away from the pool area. Somehow this didn't trigger a reality check…

I got out of the pool and left the area, heading back to the room. When I got to the room MoSh wasn't there, but there was another man there… I think it was Markus. He was lying on the bed, apparently naked, with the blankets covering him up to his waist. He was smiling at me. I remembered MoSh had been there before. I asked Markus where MoSh was. Markus asked if I would rather have MoSh waiting for me in bed… I said I was just wondering where he had gone. Markus said he was the one waiting for me, MoSh was probably off fucking Asuka somewhere. I was thinking this was really strange and maybe I should do a reality check… then I woke.

Wow.

So, this is interesting: the same night you guys had your double dream date, I thought about asking you guys if you wanted to do a dream triple date, but I thought that would be too many people for some of us to focus on to remember. (Especially me, since my recall is kind of weird right now.)

Also! Angel and I went on a date-hike on Saturday. We walked through a tropical forest, which ended up at a waterfall, with a pool at the bottom, Manoa Falls. Isn't that cool!

Her giving you a dirty look obviously shows that she needed healing, as I thought, just like the rest of us. Thank you.

That hotel dream was weird. I wonder why some dreams are so random like that, and others have more of a storyline that doesn't vary. Hmm...

Thanks for writing all these dreams down!

Do you have xbox live?

Originally Posted by EnjoyJoey

Do you have xbox live?

No, I'm afraid I have very little time for online gaming between work, school, homework, friends, and dreams.

Here's Manoa Falls, where we hiked to on Saturday.



Here's a picture of the trail.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

No, I'm afraid I have very little time for online gaming between work, school, homework, friends, and dreams.

Oh well then, haha, makes sense. I don't game as much in general anymore too, only on occasions.

Note: My goal tonight was to visit the Antarctica world that Lonewolf described. When I asked around, I found out that MoSh, Markus, and Nomad also wanted to come. So the plan was that all of them would come, most likely with Asuka and Angel as well. A group outing! I used my light / sound machine and slipped into a WILD.

I was in the biodome. I was lucid, having just entered my WILD. I looked around to see who was there with me. I saw everyone else was already there. Markus was right beside me, MoSh and Asuka were just behind Markus, Nomad and Angel were behind me. I remembered the goal of going to Antarctica, the alternate dimension, so I opened a portal with that goal in mind and we all went through.

On the other side we were in the ocean. The waves were large and all around us. I wondered how we had gotten here. I wondered why we hadn't gotten straight to our destination. I thought maybe the alternate Antarctica was somewhat protected from direct portal and teleportation access. What we needed now was a ship… or a boat… or something. I counted the people with me… Nomad, Angel, MoSh, Asuka, Markus… 6 of us total… and I summoned my modified Lamborghini that Q built for me a while back. It looks like this car, but it was modified and is a bit longer so there are more seats in it. The doors are gull-wing doors and open outward to form wings so it can fly. I summoned the car now, and it appeared, hovering over the waves. I teleported into the driver's seat and threw everyone else a line so they could find the car. I didn't have to pull them up, just show them the way. They all came up and joined me in the car. Markus was sitting beside me, MoSh and Asuka were close together behind Markus, Nomad and Angel were behind my seat.

From that point of view I could see a land mass… and a cave leading into it. I flew the car down and into the cave. It was dark in the cave, but the headlights lit the way. The cave was pretty straight, with just a few turns. There was a light at the end of the tunnel ahead. We flew through that tunnel and into an open area. We landed just outside of a city. The city looked like something out of a Final Fantasy game. Two suns shone in the sky. One of them was larger and yellow, the other one was smaller and blue. The result was that the yellow and blue lights mixed and cast a green glow on the surrounding area. This made the green vegetation look even greener.

All of us got out of the car and walked towards the city. I looked up at it, it was really cool. I remembered Lonewolf saying something about meeting a woman with a hat who was there to greet dreamers. I wondered if this place got very many dream visitors. I figured if there was someone there who greets dream visitors, then there must be a decent number of dreamers that come here.

I saw movement. There was the woman. She walked over to us. She did have a hat on, it was pretty and had some flowers on the rim. She was also wearing a long sundress. She had a friendly smile. She looked from one of us to the next one, smiling and greeting each of us. She seemed to know all of our names. She greeted MoSh(after a brief pause), Asuka, Nomad(as Nomad, again, after a brief pause), Angel, then she paused on Markus… until he stated his own name… to which she looked slightly puzzled, then she greeted me as Raven. She seemed friendly. She was talking about the city and the people who live there, but I was looking around at all the vegetation. It all looked distinctly like we were in another world. I was looking at the flowers when Markus got my attention. Everyone was leaving, going into the city. I wanted to stay and look at the flowers. I went over to a flower, there were so many, I thought maybe I could just pick one… but I thought better of it. I didn't want to come to this world and immediately start pissing people off.

We looked through the city now, all of the architecture was cool. I liked it there. After a while we emerged on the other side. There were more of the beautiful flowers and plants. I went over to one of the flowers and took a sniff. The fragrance was wonderful. I couldn't find words to describe the scent. I turned around and saw the others looking around. There was someone else there. The new man was looking at Markus. I went over near Markus to see what was going on. The new visitor was clearly a dreamer, he looked like a biker in black leather with long dark hair. He was giving Markus a dirty look. I thought the man was Lonewolf. I said hello to him and looked over at Markus. What the hell? I started to introduce them to each other but I was interrupted. Markus said he could go wherever he wanted to. I stopped and looked at Markus, I'm sure I had a puzzled look on my face. I was confused. Markus said something about permission to share dreams…

Lonewolf appeared to be annoyed about something and he threw an energy blast at Markus. Markus jumped up into the air and avoided it, coming back down and landing near Lonewolf… and answering the energy blast with a punch to the face. There was another blast of energy and they split apart. I was looking over at the two of them… what the hell? I was about to ask them what they thought they were doing when they pulled out swords and went at it. My next thought was that maybe they both saw themselves as alphas… and now they thought they had to fight it out. I sat down on the ground. Neither of them could truly harm the other, so I didn't figure there was any danger. I rolled my eyes at the pointlessness of the fight. They fought with swords for a bit, Lonewolf threw another energy blast, Markus deflected the energy blast. The errant energy blast hit in a patch of the beautiful flowers, setting them ablaze. Wait… they couldn't hurt each other, but they could make a mess of this place… I wondered if the people here would be pissed about destroying the flowers…

"Stop it!" I yelled as I flew over and positioned myself between Lonewolf and Markus, "What exactly are you two fighting about? Whatever it is, you're destroying the flowers!"

"Ask him what the fight is about," Markus said, pointing at Lonewolf, "He started it."

"I don't care who started it," I said, "Just stop it now. Ok? Can't we all just get along?" I looked between Lonewolf and Markus, who looked like they would rather go back to fighting than shake hands and make up. "If you guys absolutely must have it out, do it later… in the coliseum in the Outer Realms where no one can get hurt. Ok?" Lonewolf shot Markus one more dirty look before disappearing. I went over to Markus.

"You should have heard what he…" Markus started.

"Not now," I told Markus, "I don't care what started that mess. I'm just glad it's over for now. There wasn't supposed to be any fighting on this trip, you know."

"But he…" Markus started.

"No arguing, either, please." I said. I looked around the area. MoSh and Asuka had gotten a bit distracted. I wondered if they had noticed the fight. They were standing in a particularly tall patch of vegetation kissing each other. I noticed the vegetation was growing as they kissed… visibly growing. I saw the woman was behind us. I wondered if she had seen the fight… She was looking at MoSh and Asuka. She said their love makes the plants grow. Markus said we could make some plants grow to replace the destroyed ones. He kissed me. Plants started growing and blooming around us. I saw MoSh and Asuka lie down in the plants around them… and then they were completely concealed by the foliage. Markus and I sat down on the ground and disappeared into a thick grove of foliage of our own, kissing… PRIVATE…

Note: When I fell asleep tonight, I had a lot of negative energy due to some problems in the evening… and I wasn't the only one. I also had healing requests from Nomad, and MoSh. My negative energy had found its way to being focused against MoSh, but I focused my intent on receiving healing for my negative energy and providing healing for everyone who was in need of it. Additionally, my light / sound machine wasn't cooperating. While fixing the problem was easy in the morning, I had too much negative energy to want to bother with it before bed, so I missed out on my WILD…

I was in the biodome. I was semi-lucid. My mind realized I was dreaming, but I wasn't very clear in the head. I looked around the biodome. I wasn't alone there. Nomad was there with his arm around Angel, who looked pale. Nomad had said she would need healing, too. Basara was leaning against a tree and strumming on his guitar, singing quietly. MoSh was right beside him, also playing guitar. I felt a surge of negative energy when I saw MoSh, but I pushed it back down. This was to be a place of healing… and it was clear that I needed it. Asuka was sitting beside MoSh and listening to their music. She was smiling. I saw a young girl making her way through the trees and saw it was Shawna. She poked her head around a tree as if she was an explorer who had just made a very interesting find.

We all got together in the healing glen area of the biodome. I was between Nomad and MoSh. I could feel negative energy inside. I focused on a piece of a Disturbed song and brought it under control. "I've held on too long just to let it go now, will my inner strength get me through it somehow, defying the curse that has taken hold, never surrender, I'll never be overcome." I was saying the words softly.

"What did you say?" MoSh asked.

"Nothing…" I said, feeling the song working to keep my negative energy under control. Where was all this shit coming from? I really wanted to be rid of it. We were all in a circle, I noticed Markus had joined us. We were all doing healing spells of our own. All of them somehow fused perfectly, and the glen was filled with golden energy… and fire. But the fire didn't burn anyone or anything. It felt warm, but nothing more. The healing continued for a while and then was done. I felt some better. Quite a bit better, in fact. Something still felt off… like there was some negative energy that had been missed somehow. Maybe I would need more healing.

"Ok," I said, "I'm going out to a dimension far from this one, far beyond where anyone here can probably get. I hope to see some cool stuff, though I don't know for sure where we'll end up. Anyone want to go? Markus?"

"Sure!" Markus said.

"Nomad? Angel?" I asked Both of them said yes. I asked Basara, he said sure he would come along. I went to the center of the healing glen in the biodome and opened a portal, not really focusing, just imagining what kind of place I wanted to end up. Someplace cool, peaceful, nice. The portal opened.

"Aren't you forgetting someone?" Asuka asked in an irritated manner.

"Markus… Nomad… Angel… Basara…" I listed off names, "Nope. I thought you and Shawna would want to be with MoSh… But if you want to come…"

"MoSh is who you're forgetting, stupid!" Asuka said.

"I'm not forgetting," I said feeling negative again, "Why would I talk to him? It's not like he wants to hear what I have to say. It's not like…" Crap… negative energy again… I bit off my sentence before something really nasty could pop out. I was going to go through the portal before saying anything else… but before I could I woke.

Note: It seems MoSh's house in his inner world has once again gone creepy. The first goal is to clear that up, and try to find the source of the mess. Find out what keeps causing it to come back. With this goal in mind I used my light / sound machine and successfully slipped into a WILD…

I was in MoSh's inner world. I looked around and saw I was in the street outside his house. Things looked creepy. Silent hill style creepy. Everything was dark and foggy, and it looked like there were shapes moving in the fog. I went over towards the door. I went into the house. It seemed even creepier inside than out. Dark, dreary, kind of dead. I wondered if anyone was inside. I wondered if anyone was being affected by the dark energy. I figured I would most likely find Asuka infected, maybe MoSh too. I didn't see anyone around, so I figured I would start cleaning up the dark energy. To do this, I focused on the song Full Moonlight.

The song started playing when I was in the living room of MoSh's house. The song was cleansing dark energy from the area. All of the dark energy was being gathered into one spot, into a small energy ball. I moved into the next room and continued focusing on the song, the energy ball gathered more dark energy. In this manner I went through the entire house and cleansed the dark energy from it. When I was done it no longer looked like a scene from Silent Hill. It was once again a comfortable looking house.

I was surprised I hadn't found anyone there. Where was Asuka? Where was Shawna? The baby? I went into the room that was clearly a nursery. There was a mirror there that wasn't reflecting the room. It looked fluid like a star gate or something. As I was looking at it a young girl came through carrying a smaller child. There was Shawna and the baby. I figured she had taken the baby somewhere safe when the dark energy started getting too strong. But where was Asuka? She was probably infected with dark energy. I would have to heal her when I found her. I looked at the window and saw it was still dark and creepy outside. I would have to finish cleaning things up.

I went outside and resumed using the song Full Moonlight to absorb the dark energy into my growing energy ball. Was it just my imagination? It didn't look as creepy as when I had gone into the house. Well, I guess that was to be expected. I hadn't expected to be the only one there cleaning dark energy. Markus had said he would be there to help, too. I didn't see Markus. I wondered if he had made it there. I continued absorbing the dark energy into a ball. After a short while longer everything was cleaned up.

So where was Asuka? I looked around and finally spotted Asuka. I was about to do a healing spell on her, assuming she would have dark energy, but she didn't. She smiled warmly and said she liked things much better now. She thanked me for helping clean things up. I said that I was glad to help. I asked if she was feeling ok. She said yes, she was fine now. She had been cleansed of dark energy by one of my friends. Curious, I asked which one. She said she hadn't seen who it was, the person had been on the other side of a portal. I figured if the visitor had been healing her, then that had to be a good thing.

Ok. Now why does it keep coming back? I looked around at the ground, at the house, wondering where the dark energy was coming from. It had started at MoSh's house and spread outward from there. So it must be in MoSh's house. I headed for MoSh's house to find the source. I reached the house and went into the living room. I looked around. I used my penticon computer implant to scan for small amounts of dark energy. Scans revealed nothing over safe levels of negative energy. So where was the concentration highest? In the basement. MoSh's inner house has a basement? I hadn't even realized that. I found the stairs and went down into the basement. Both MoSh and I went down.

There was a crack in the floor. There were tiny tendrils of dark hanging limply out of the crack. It looked like a dead plant. I continued the scan… and there was a higher concentration of dark energy down below the surface. The roots. I used the song Light Comes Out of Black by Judas Priest to convert dark energy to light energy. I focused the energy onto the root of the strange plant down below. The energy from the spell gathered down there and made the direct conversion of dark energy to light. I could see the effect as the small tendrils of dark that were sticking out of the crack turned to tendrils of light. And they also started growing. The tendrils grew like vines, and then bloomed into flowers. The flowers were glowing white flowers and they illuminated what had been a dark basement. I looked at the flowers as they bloomed and thought how pretty they were.

The plant filled a large portion of the basement rather quickly, but then the growth slowed and stopped. More flowers bloomed until that, too stopped. Apparently the plant had reached a stable point in its growth. I heard someone behind me saying the flowers were beautiful. I turned and I saw Asuka holding a small child. The child looked to be somewhere around a year old. Asuka carried the little girl over to the flowers. Each flower was large. Each flower was about the size of a softball. The girl reached out and touched one of the flowers. The light was absorbed by the child, and the girl giggled happily. Asuka set the child down near the plant and went over to MoSh. She put her arms around MoSh, saying she wanted this place to stay peaceful…

I felt like I was about to wake up. I then remembered there was a marking in MoSh's house where he wanted to check it out. It hadn't been the source of the dark energy, but we still wanted to find out what it was. I asked MoSh where the marker was. I said I wasn't sure how much longer the dream would last. MoSh led me upstairs and to the marker. It was shaped like a cross. From a distance it looked like it was solid black. I got closer and looked at it, and when I got closer I saw the black was actually made of lines of small writing. I couldn't read the writing. It was in some kind of language I didn't recognize. I still felt like I was waking up. I telepathically contacted Q and told him he might want to take a look at this. Q said he was seeing it telepathically through me. I asked him what it meant. He said he would have to look at it a bit closer. I wondered what it meant. MoSh was asking me if I could see anything. I didn't even get a chance to answer MoSh before I woke.

I was at school. I was just arriving for class at ITT Tech. The campus I was arriving on was much larger than the actual ITT Tech campus. I didn't notice this as odd, so I didn't do a reality check. I walked down a long hall to the computer lab where I was supposed to be and I went in. Mr. Burke was the instructor. Everyone else was already in the class. I noticed that there weren't any computers in the room. Just desks. I sat down in one of the desks and waited for class to start. Everyone had a laptop with them. I took my computer from my bag and set it up.

Mr. Burke was talking about the project we would be working on for the class. I was quite annoyed at Mr. Burke when he chose our groups for us. I was in a group with Tyler, Phil, someone I didn't know, and Dennis. We moved the desks into groups. There were five in our group, all set with four in a square and the fifth at the end. Dennis was sitting in the desk at the end. I talked to Allison a bit more before sitting down. I told Allison that if I was lucky Dennis would drop dead from something. We laughed a bit and then went to our groups.

My group and I were all talking about what our project would be. We were basically just brainstorming. We would pull stuff up on our computers and show what we were thinking to each other. We weren't making a lot of progress, the guys kept pulling up porn sites. I was sitting there trying to think if I could do the project all myself or if I could request a group change when Dennis fell out of his chair. I had seen him leaning to the side to see one of the other computer screens, so my first thought was he leaned just a bit too far. I laughed to myself. Dennis didn't move. What was going on? Everyone was gathering around. Someone said he was dead. But how could he be dead? Burke said he was dead. A couple of paramedics came in and checked Dennis… said he was dead. They were trying to figure out why he had just suddenly died. Heart problems were mentioned.

While the paramedics were discussing what had happened to Dennis I went to the door of the classroom. All I could think about was when I had been joking about Dennis dying. The paramedics didn't know what had happened. I thought maybe I did. I had wished him dead, and now he was dead. I was speaking out loud without meaning to. I just kept repeating that I hadn't meant I really wanted him to die… he is annoying, but I hadn't meant it about him dying. I didn't mean it… I didn't mean it… I heard a paramedic say it looked like Dennis' heart had just stopped for no apparent reason. I left the room, sure that my energy had caused it now. And I had just killed a man in cold blood. An annoying man, but not a threat to me or anyone else. I had those thoughts in my mind as I went outside. I was thinking I would be punished now, for my evil act. I was still repeating that I hadn't meant it.

The level of ITT Tech that we were on was the second level. The outside floor was actually the roof of the lower level. A large deck. I went to the edge of the deck. Power lines entered the building right in front of me and then went up to the power poles and off into the distance. I stepped onto the power lines. It supported me fine. For some reason I wasn't shocked. I walked along the lines up to the pole. The lines were stretched tight between poles, like tightropes. I started walking on them. There were three lines. I started running faster. Then something weird happened. I could see more than 3 lines… 6 lines, 9 lines, all lining up. I could hear my guardian Hetfield talking to me in my mind. He said not to worry, I was just realizing my abilities. He said that over time the lines had shifted slightly. He said now I could see what use to be, what currently was, and what would be in the future. Past, present and future.

After almost stepping off the lines by trying to walk on either what use to be or what would be, I stopped. Hetfield said I could change the present by altering the past. He said I need but focus. He said I could isolate any individual thing to see it. I headed back towards the school, running again. I looked to my right. 20 minutes ago there had been a man standing there peeing in a bush. Now there was a rabbit. 20 minutes from now there would be a piece of trash blowing by. I could focus on any of the three. I asked Hetfield if I could reverse my wish so I wouldn't have actually killed Dennis… change it to something like, "Maybe Dennis will laugh too hard and piss his pants in front of everyone and then have to go home to change." Hetfield said I could do that. I was almost to the school. I altered my focus and I saw Dennis walking into the school… that had happened in the past. Maybe I could change the past. And the things I could do with that… I could save lives, I could get money to support myself and to share with those in need… The good I could do with this gift was virtually endless. Hetfield said I would have to practice doing it. I said fine, I would practice as much as it took.

I tried to focus it right now. I jumped back to the deck and returned to the classroom. I had expected Dennis would not be dead now, he might have pissed his pants. I walked into the room. Dennis was still on the floor, still very dead. And he had a wet spot on his pants. Both had happened. He had pissed his pants and died. Everyone was gathered around the body and now they glared up at me. They knew. They knew I was guilty of murder. The guilt must have been clear on my face. I backed up a bit, repeating again that I hadn't meant it. I was going to turn and run away when I woke.

Note: This dream was so vivid that when I woke up it took me a couple of minutes to realize Dennis is not actually dead.

GaH! So there was a plant apart from the bug... You should have saved a dark one for me! Ah well, glad I helped, and lol she noticed me even though I never entered, funny.

I'd actually collected the dark energy into a ball of energy, but Allison is also able to use dark energy. But with all the attacks, there should be enough for both of you!

yay! Did you collect the dark energy plant though? I want one, or ten <.<

It was converted to light to protect MoSh's inner world... though we're not sure if it worked. So it might have reverted, in which case if you want it, it's yours. I'm sure MoSh doesn't want to keep it!

yay! At this rate I will have a happy dark energy family! "dances"

Note: I had plans for tonight. I had planned on going into MoSh's inner world to check out that mark we found a while back. This didn't happen, however. I fell asleep easily enough, but I failed to enter my WILD… I only remember a few fragments from last night, so here they are all in one posting.

*Water Park*
I was in a water park. I was beside a large wave pool. There were huge waves coming off of the wave pool and swamping half of the park. People were loving it even though all their stuff was getting wet. I ran from the wave pool because I had a laptop and I didn't want it to get wet. The only way to get out was a water slide. I figured I could hold the laptop out of the water. I jumped down the slide, holding the laptop over my head. It was fun, or would have been if I hadn't been worried about my laptop. I saw down below there was a large drop into a deep pool. I would go completely under! My laptop was toast! But I saw a familiar face by the side of the pool. I did the only thing I could do.

"MOSH!" I called out, I was thinking the man down there was MoSh, "It's my laptop! Catch it! Please catch it!"

I threw the laptop into the air as I reached the end of the slide. I saw it fly through the air towards MoSh. I landed in the water and went under. I landed, and saw MoSh standing there beside my laptop. He was dusting it off. I thanked him for catching it. He said he hadn't caught it… it had bounced. I told him I forgot HPs bounce…

*Mall*
I was at the mall. I was looking for a Nintendo DS. My old Nintendo DS had died, and I wanted to play Pokémon. I found the device. It was expensive. I couldn't afford it. I cursed my luck and left. Everything was closing. The gates on the stores closed. There were people in an empty store spending the night. We had all been locked in. I sat down, annoyed at getting locked in. Lights went out, everyone went to sleep. I was awake. I wandered the mall. I was outside the store with the Nintendo DS. I saw the display. It was a short distance from the gate on the door to the display.

One of the slats was broken. I was trying to reach through the hole to grab hold of a Nintendo DS. Almost… I was sure I could reach it if I got just a bit farther. I was scratching my arm. Crap! Would they check for DNA in this case? No way… or at least I hoped not… I had almost reached the Nintendo DS box when I woke.

*Lost*
I was driving in my car. It was nighttime and it was dark. I thought I recognized where I was. I was trying to get home. I drove in the direction I usually go and found out I was right back where I started from. How had that happened? I must have taken a wrong turn. I headed back where I needed to go. The road ended in a dead end. There was nothing but open desert in front of me. I had made another wrong turn. I turned around and headed back. I was going fast because I was impatient. I was also running low on gas. I saw someone in the road. I slammed on my brakes. I ran over the person! He bounced off of my windshield and landed behind the car. I got out to go look and see if he was ok. I looked closely at the person… Loaf?! He was breathing… good. I was about to help him up when he turned into a vampire and bit me. Great. Now I would be going home as a vampire. How the hell was I supposed to explain that?! I woke.

*When RCs Don't Work*
I woke up in bed and came out into the living room. I looked around and saw my mother lying on the couch covered up with blankets. I wondered if she was sick… wait a minute… if she was sick she would be in bed, not on the couch. This wasn't normal. I did a nose pinch reality check. When I pinched my nose I couldn't breathe. So I must be awake… I went and looked more closely at my mom. She was sleeping soundly. I then remembered I had left my laptop on the couch because that's where I usually use it during the day. My mom was there… my laptop wasn't. I looked under the covers and saw only her feet. Where was my laptop? I looked around and didn't see it. I thought this wasn't right. I did another nose pinch reality check. I still couldn't breathe while pinching my nose. So I was awake. This wasn't making any sense at all. But I was awake… two RCs had proven that… and I really thought I must be right until I woke.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

I was about to help him up when he turned into a vampire and bit me. Great. Now I would be going home as a vampire. How the hell was I supposed to explain that?! I woke.

I don't remember it, but it is something I have been wanting to do - just to see what your reaction would be.

Note: Tonight I fell asleep with a goal. One was to find out about some strange painter that appeared in MoSh's dreams almost a week ago and said MoSh was going to die in two weeks… ?! This stranger appeared in MoSh's dream again last night, and MoSh wanted to know what was going on, I agreed to help. 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 what was going on. I was in the front yard of his house. I looked around to see if there was anything happening. I was glad to see it was bright and sunny, not creepy. Now to find MoSh. I went up towards the house. I spotted MoSh to the side of the house. I went over to him and said hi. He said hi to me and asked if I wanted to go on a picnic. I looked at him strangely. Data came from the trees and handed MoSh a dark blue colored rock. He said he believed that was what MoSh was looking for. He said hello to me and then asked MoSh if he had done a reality check yet. MoSh asked why. Data said he was dreaming. MoSh looked at me strangely. I told him he was, indeed, dreaming. Do a reality check. MoSh looked at me strangely a bit longer then RCed. He said he was dreaming, and seemed to become lucid.

Now was the goal to try to find the painter MoSh had been talking to. I used the setting he had described in his dream last night… a home in the country… and focused on that. I also asked MoSh to help me focus the portal and then I opened it. MoSh and I went through it.

On the other side of the portal we were near a house that was located in a green field in the country. I asked MoSh if that looked like the place. He looked around and said he thought so. We headed up to the house. I knocked on the door and waited a few minutes. The door finally opened and a man was standing there. He looked like a middle aged man as close as I could tell, he didn't look particularly hostile or dangerous, he had some white facial hair and his hair was also white, he had a bit of a beer belly and was dressed in old pants and a shirt with some paint spattered on them. He looked at me with a bit of irritation, then he looked over at MoSh and looked surprised. MoSh said that was definitely the same person. We went into the house as the man let us in. He was still giving me strange looks.

MoSh went over to a wall where there were quite a few paintings. The paintings reminded me of Harry Potter portraits where the people in them seem to be alive. The people in the paintings were moving, and seemed completely alive. I looked at a couple of them. I stopped in front of one with a couple of kittens playing. Cute! Very cute! I had to force my eyes away from the kittens to keep from getting lost in watching them. I turned my attention back towards the painter and MoSh. The painter approached MoSh and asked him what was the purpose of the visit. I said we were trying to find out more about what he meant when he said MoSh was going to die in a little over a week. He didn't respond to me. He continued looking at MoSh. I went over beside the man, wondering if he was hard of hearing or deliberately being rude. I started to repeat what I had said. He interrupted me and said he had heard me and had nothing to say to me. He looked back at MoSh.

I looked around the room a bit more, trying not to be annoyed at the man, which was not proving easy. I let my eyes wander back to the painting of the kittens until I calmed down and then returned my attention to MoSh and the painter. MoSh was just finishing telling the painter the same thing I had told him. I could tell MoSh was slightly irritated at the painter's attitude. The painter finally started talking, although it seemed he was making an extra effort to pretend I wasn't there. He deliberately turned his back towards me as he spoke to MoSh. The following is what I heard:

The death itself is a suspension between worlds, states of consciousness. The individual who is likely to have a "Shamanic Death," is chasing extinction itself. Through that process, the person is readying him to stand on a bridge, between space and time. The ancestors of the Shamans had learned the hard way of their chosen path. It demanded an innate understanding of death and how to control it. Many went beyond the controls of fatality and prematurely extinguished their human life. The Shamans were born with a mark. The mark was well hidden until they had been recognized by the elders. Because of the ideas that surrounded the practice, it keeps most away from it. A Shaman's death was a real death to them.

Generally, the solitude begins for the Shaman in streets and homes of the modern society. The initiator has a strong sense of being in an unfamiliar time and place. Nothing seems as it should. It's hard for the apprentice to function and take a place in the foreign surroundings of their environment. Many times they act out in fits of madness. The strain of trying to assimilate is over-powering. They abandon the idea of becoming their true self altogether. Many turn to easier solutions, such as drugs or any means to release the suffering. Some find their way through the use of narcotics and controlled substance. They long for the isolation, the preparation needed to stand once again between realities. After experiencing "the death," your entire life becomes more in focus, for your complete examination. Our spirit dictates the depth of the experience. It gives to our humanness what it desires the body to carry on into the physical reality. Our will, or spirit than leads us through life and creates a more fitting nature to our true likeness.

The painter told MoSh that life his home world is the preparation. Modern society is so far removed, distancing us from our center. By the mere fact of engaging the world itself, is all the isolation that is required. One feels like a warrior, trying desperately at times to keep the enemy at bay. It gives the shaman apprentice all the direction required to remember their way to the place, the space between worlds - if you can survive and keep focused on the journey.

Note: Much of that is channeled through Q, I don't remember that many details directly. But damn, if that's how you tell who will experience a shaman's death, I should be going through a shaman's death any minute… and I ain't even a shaman… so there must be something that we missed or that the painter didn't tell.

The painter finally stopped talking. MoSh seemed to be at a loss for words. I expressed to the painter what I mentioned in the note above, that if those were the indications that I would have a shaman's death sometime and I'm not even a shaman. He still refused to respond to me. MoSh seemed to snap out of his speechlessness. He asked the painter about what I had asked. He just said he would not speak regarding MoSh's companion, me. He said technically that discussion is supposed to be private, but he didn't say anything since he knew why I had accompanied MoSh. I could feel the dream slipping, I was thinking about everything the painter had said. I was wondering why so much of his description also matches me when I am not a shaman… and I was also focused on trying to remember everything. Well, hopefully if I forgot something, Q could help. I was focusing when I woke.

I was in a city. I was on the street in front of a large building. I looked at the building. It was a library. There was a man there with me. I don't know who he was, but he seemed familiar at the time. I knew our goal. We had to go into the library and find a hidden map inside one of the restricted books. There was a whole section devoted to books that weren't available to the general public. And one of these books had a map that we were looking for. We needed to get into the restricted area for that, though. And certainly no one was going to let us just walk in. We needed a plan.

The man I was with had a map. It was really more of a floor plan of the library. The restricted area was a room in the middle of the library, a room that had no outside walls, it was in a climate controlled room optimized for the books to keep them in the best possible condition. So this wouldn't be an easy task. I felt I knew the exact book I was looking for. The man with me wasn't as sure. So we decided he would create the distraction while I got inside the restricted area. At that point I would have to find a secure spot to stay in while they did the final check. They took precautions for people getting in, but not so much with people getting out. So we had our plan.

The two of us went inside. We looked around the area a bit, pretending to browse books. We also paid absolutely no attention to each other, making it appear that we were not associated with each other in any way. I started browsing some of the books closer to the restricted area. No one seemed to be paying any attention to me. I didn't look out of place. I could see there were armed guards in front of the door to the restricted area. I made sure I didn't stare for too long, I didn't want them to get suspicious. I started browsing intently in the area closest to the restricted area. I wasn't really paying any attention to the book I was paging through, however. I looked closely enough to make sure I wasn't 'reading' it upside down, but nothing more. I was waiting for my partner to create a diversion.

"Are you FUCKING kidding me?" my partner yelled from a table not far from me, getting angry at another patron who was clearly dumb struck. My partner started throwing threats at the confused patron, acting like he might be more than just a bit drunk. I saw one thing I would need. There was a key hanging out of one of the guards' pockets. Everyone in the library was now staring at my partner and the confused man who was being yelled at. When my partner acted like he might get violent, the guards finally headed over, seeing the need to break up the fight. I followed the guards over there just like about a dozen other people wondering if they were going to see something interesting. I was standing right next to one of the guards. I could see his key ring peeking out of his pocket.

"Come on, now," one of the guards said to my partner, "Let's just break this up. We don't need any trouble."

"Trouble?" my partner asked, incredulous, "He's the one causing trouble! You should have heard what he just said to me! He insulted everything I stand for!"

"But I…" the man started, clearly a scholar rather than a fighter…

"Don't even try to make excuses," my partner said to the man, acting quite aggressive, "I don't want to hear it!"

"Come on," I said to him as if I was just trying to calm him down, "Maybe you've had a few drinks too many…"

My partner grabbed me as if angry. He yelled that people should go around accusing others of being drunk. He threw me hard back against the guard with the keys sticking from his pocket. I grabbed at the guard for balance, pulling his keys from his pocket as I fell to the ground and slipping them under my shirt. The guard got angry at me, but at the same time he helped me up. He told me to not get involved, it was a possibly dangerous situation. I quickly apologized for interfering, said I had thought I could help, and moved away. The guards were now telling my partner that if he didn't leave the premises quietly he would be arrested. He finally relinquished and allowed himself to be escorted to the door.

I went to the restricted area door. All the patrons were following the guards and my partner to the door. I unlocked the door quickly and slipped in. I locked the door from the other side and slid the keys under the door so they would be visible and not presumed stolen. I waited in the restricted room as my eyes adjusted to the dim light. I heard the guards return outside. I heard one of them yelling at the other one for letting his keys fall from his pocket.

I started looking around in the hidden area. I knew what I was looking for… and I found it quickly. The book was on the third row back, it was a particularly old tome. The map we needed was in the book. I found the map and took out my phone to get a pic. I got pictures of the map and the pages near that, then returned the book to where I had gotten it. If things went right, no one would ever know I'd been in there. I returned to the only exit and looked for a place to get out of sight. That could be a problem. I looked at the time on my phone. It was almost closing time. At closing time they would do their last rounds. That would be my chance to get out. Without anywhere else to go, I climbed up onto the top of the bookcases and tried to get out of sight in a dark corner. I waited. The guards came in and looked around. They didn't look up towards me, and they split up and started searching through the room. I quietly dropped down and slipped out of the room, then out the front doors without being noticed.

Outside I met back up with my partner and we headed for a hideout. When we got there, however, it was under attack. There were a bunch of people in Templar uniforms with guns. The hideout was filled with ninjas. The ninjas and the Templars were fighting. The ninjas were using swords, and I saw a couple limbs get removed from Templars… and that revealed they weren't human. There was no blood, there was only wires and other materials. Those Templars were androids… weird. There was a fight going on. A few ninjas got shot and they were definitely human. This was all taking place in the hideout, which was inside an old temple. It was inside closed space, so there were plenty of places to keep out of sight. The fight didn't go on for too long. There were quite a few dead ninjas, but all of the androids had been disposed of.

My partner and I went into the temple, they were recovering from the attack. I found a couple of injured people and healed them. The ground was covered with the dead and with disabled androids. My partner took my phone and was showing the pictures to someone. I was going to go see what they were saying but I woke instead.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

This wasn't normal. I did a nose pinch reality check. When I pinched my nose I couldn't breathe. So I must be awake…

I did another nose pinch reality check. I still couldn't breathe while pinching my nose. So I was awake.

RC's have a 100% fail rate to me, I can't even do the standard ones anymore. I have to do other things like try to float. Looking at my hands actually seems to be okay, since they are usually missing