Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

Note: I had some negative energy tonight, and I was especially tired because of it. I didn't use my light / sound machine when I fell asleep and thus did not slip into a WILD…

I was in the biodome and I was semi-lucid. I looked around at the familiar surroundings. Nothing about being there seemed odd enough to make me fully lucid. I saw Nomad there. I stood there staring at him for a few minutes. He was in a normal human form. The reason I was staring was because he was so clear and vivid. Actually, everything was. This didn't feel like a dream at all. It felt like I had gone out IWL to meet up with Nomad somewhere and there he was. The vividness of the dream might be why I never went completely lucid. I asked Nomad where he had gone last night. We had been chatting on Skype but then he had disappeared and not come back. He said he had fallen asleep. He said sorry, he'd meant to come back, but by the time I woke up, about midnight (his time I assume) I had been gone. I told him I had been tired and needed to get to bed. Especially with just getting over a cold.

Nomad said he was heading for the hot spring. I told him I wanted to do a healing spell on him first… before going in the spring. He seemed slightly puzzled but agreed. I used Full Moonlight to cleanse the dark energy out of Nomad. Golden energy formed and flowed both around and through Nomad. I hoped it had done enough. Ok. Now we could go to the hot springs.

Nomad and I followed a path and ended up at the hot springs in the biodome. I noticed Basara was there. He seemed to be quietly relaxing in the warm water. It looked like he might have even fallen asleep! Nomad got into the water. I noticed a small amount of black crap wash off of him… but not much. I was glad there wasn't much. If I hadn't been looking for it specifically I might not have seen it at all. Nomad woke Basara by splashing him in the face. Basara woke up quickly and looked around, seeming surprised that he was no longer alone.

Both Basara and Nomad were saying I should come into the water. I didn't want to. I knew I had negative energy… and a lot of it… I called Basara over to me. He got out and came over. He asked what was wrong. I told him I wanted to have less negative energy on me if I was to go into the springs. He looked at me oddly but agreed. He played the song Love Will Save Your Heart on his guitar and sang it. It was really very nice sitting there near the springs listening to Basara play and sing. I could feel the golden energy flowing through me. Ok. Now it should be safe to go into the water.

Basara and I went over to the hot springs. Nomad asked what the conspiracy was all about. He was laughing so I knew he was just joking around, but he was wondering what Basara and I had been doing. Basara kissed me and said some things are private. That got another laugh. Basara got back into the spring. I didn't see a single bit of black stuff come off of Basara. I hesitated and then finally got in the water. I could see black crap washing off of me into the water. Shit! There was still shit on me! I felt ill. Nomad asked what was wrong. I told him I didn't want to pollute the hot spring. He said it wasn't polluting… the spring is meant to handle things like that. It is a healing spring. I saw that the flow of crap off of me and into the water had stopped. I guessed it had all washed off already. I still felt bad about it. I swam over to Basara and sat in the water beside him. I was still sitting there with Basara when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Note: Once again I fell asleep with a lot of negative energy. I was once again drained by that negative energy. I fell asleep without the aid of my light / sound machine and failed to slip into a WILD.

I was in the biodome. I looked around. I hadn't intended to go there. I was slightly annoyed that I was there. I was somewhere between semi-lucid and non-lucid. I thought I had to leave now. I was looking for a way to leave when I turned around and saw Nomad was there. A massive wave of negative energy hit me. No. I absolutely did NOT want to talk to him. I muttered a few expletives about my dream bringing me to the very last place I wanted to be. I turned to hurry away from Nomad and find a way out of the biodome. I had just about gotten around a corner and out of sight of Nomad when I heard him say my name. I pretended not to hear and hurried around the corner. Now to open a portal and get out of there. I felt it was urgent that I not be there if Nomad was following me. Ok… open a portal.

I did my usual technique of focusing on Through the Never and tracing out the portal in front of me. Nothing happened. WTF? Why wasn't my portal working? There wasn't much time… I tried the portal again. Still nothing. Damn! I cursed loudly. That didn't change anything. I did not want to be there if Nomad was coming… and somehow I knew he was almost to the corner. I took off and ran into the trees where I would not be seen. I went through the trees at a rapid pace until I emerged in the area next to the koi pond and ran directly into Basara, knocking both of us to the ground.

Basara looked at me with a strange look on his face. He asked me where I was off to and what was chasing me. I told him I needed to get out of the biodome and my portals weren't working. Basara asked what the hurry was. He said if there was a hostile in the biodome they would've been teleported out… right? I told him I didn't have time to explain, let's just go. He asked go where. I told him I wanted to go anywhere, just not there! My sense of urgency was back and stronger than ever. Nomad was still coming. I told Basara we had to go. Basara just stood there and looked concerned. He said I had a lot of negative energy. He said we should go the Healing Glen and get some healing. I said that was great as long as we didn't stay there. He strummed his guitar to open a portal and we both went through into the Healing Glen. I felt a degree of relief as the portal closed behind us.

We were now in the Healing Glen. Basara said he wanted me to sit down and listen to his song… but he also wanted to know who I had been running away from. I said I was avoiding a lying asshole. Basara said maybe I could enlighten him after hearing his song. He told me to lie back and listen to his song. I felt a lot of negative energy inside me. I didn't like that feeling. So I lied back on the grass and closed my eyes as Basara started playing Love Will Save Your Heart. The music was very relaxing. I got lost in the melody. I could hear Basara singing along with all the instruments. A guitar, a synthesizer, a didgeridoo, a bass guitar, drums… wait… something was off… a didgeridoo?! There's no didgeridoo in Fire Bomber! I felt another wave of negative energy. The combination of healing energy and the wave of negative energy was really disorienting. I opened my eyes and looked around.

Everything was kind of blurry. I could make out a couple of people near me. I focused on clearing my vision. I looked again. Basara was right beside me playing his guitar. Off to the left of Basara was Nomad! Dammit! I wanted to tell him to go fuck himself, I know everything and the game is over. My disoriented mind didn't let me. All that came out was, "Fuck… every… game…" which I knew made absolutely no sense at all. Then I felt someone pick me up in one hand. I saw the frost giant standing over me… he was holding me in one hand. It looked like I should feel cold, but instead I felt warm and drifted off into a peaceful sleep… and woke up in bed.

I wanted to play hide-and-seek, but you didn't really want to. Remember?

Note: During this next dream everything was quite chaotic in the midst of a large fight. There were seemingly endless numbers of dark figures attacking a huge group of our allies. The participants in the battle were as follows:

The Allies: Allison (Lord of Light), Pilgrim (Lord of Darkness), Angelina (Lord of Beasts), Carlo (Lord of Power), me (Lord of the Flies), Nomad, Vegeta, Mary (in her mech suit), Marty (in her mech suit), Xena, Gabrielle, Callisto, Hercules, Joxer, Iolas, an army of fly people, an army of werewolves, a wide assortment of dragons, some of the people from the Stargate team… if anyone knows of someone that was there that was left off this list go ahead and leave a response naming them so everyone gets credit!

The Enemy: An absolutely enormous group of black figures that were said to be seeking to force someone to join their ranks by forcing dark energy on that person to control them. (barf)

Now for the parts of the fight that I remember most clearly:

I remember being in a star formation across a large area of the battle field. The main area of the fight was off to the right quite some distance. In front of me was nothing but more hoards of the dark figures. I could barely see the other people in a star formation… I could sense them more than see them. Allison, Pilgrim, Carlo, and Angelina were all at separate points of the star. There were bright beams of energy connecting all of us, and where they intersected in the center over the hoard of Black Fists there was a massive explosion. The explosion sent a wave of fire outward from the center of the star that was incinerating everything in its path. That was why we'd had to do the formation some distance away from our other allies… to make sure only enemies got caught in the massive explosion. Before the explosion had even faded all five of us were once again heading in separate directions back towards the fight.

In another part of it I was completely surrounded by enemies. That was exactly where I wanted to be for my spell. "...And suddenly the the unreal silence is broken by a lament..." I started the Immortal Fire spell that uses part of the song Dark Tower of Abyss by Rhapsody, "A lament coming up from the deepest darkest abyss... And from the seven gates of the dark fortress… the dead come back to life to face them... this is hell!"

Apparently there was so much chaos going on around me that no one had specifically noticed me standing there doing my spell. But once the main part of it activated there was no way it could go unnoticed… "Immortal fire now rise, light my heart, light my way through the darkness, a guardian of space and time!"
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A huge wave of fire spread outward from me, incinerating every enemy it touched. The flames were flashing white and blue, pure light energy. Perfect. I figured that way if it did hit any allies it wouldn't do any harm… it would only cause harm to the Black Fists who were using dark energy. When the white flames finally cleared I saw there was a wide open area around me… no… there was someone out there… I saw Nomad looking at me strangely. He didn't pause long before he took off in the other direction.

I was standing in front of a house on a sunny day. I looked around to see where I was. The house looked somewhat familiar. I wasn't lucid so I wasn't sure what house it was. I was searching my mind to find the answer. I was distracted by a dog. A golden retriever mix, I think. The dog was in the street and I was worried someone would come along and hit it. There was no traffic, however, and the dog got to the other side and disappeared from sight. I returned my attention to the house. It was very familiar. So it must be somewhere I've been before. The quickest way to remind myself where I was would be to go to the house and see who was there.

I walked up the path to the front door. I was debating whether or not I should knock on the door when it opened. The person I saw in the doorway made me go to a barely semi-lucid state. Asuka! I was looking at Asuka! I started feeling negative energy around the outsides of my mind. I was able to hold it at bay for now. Asuka was happy to see me. She told me to come on in. I wasn't sure if that was a good idea. Besides, wasn't there something in here to throw me out if I had too much negative energy? Maybe since I had it contained safely that wasn't activating. I couldn't think of a reason to tell Asuka 'no' so I followed her into the house. She closed the door behind me. I took a deep breath and forced the negative energy back still farther from my conscious mind. Why does this shit keep happening to me? I asked myself as I looked carefully around the room.

Asuka disappeared from the room briefly and then returned with a plate of cookies. She said someone had mentioned that I liked her cookies. She held the plate out to me and told me to help myself. I felt a bit guilty for taking cookies from her… (No doubt the effect of the negative energy…) but I also didn't want to insult her by refusing. I took a cookie. Asuka looked at me strangely. She told me to go ahead and take more than one. This is a dream! I don't have to watch my weight in a dream! I took a second cookie. A little girl came running down the stairs with a smile. I remembered hearing her name… Shawna. I said hello to her. She giggled. She said she had smelled cookies. She went over and took a couple cookies from Asuka. She went out the back door. I briefly saw that she was met by a mew (the pokémon) before the door closed behind her.

Asuka was asking if I was feeling ok. She said I hadn't touched my cookies… I told her I was fine… just tired from being at a big battle earlier. When I said that I had a vague recollection of unleashing an Immortal Fire spell… She looked at me strangely as if she maybe didn't believe me. I took a bite of one of the cookies. Chocolate… I ate the rest of it. I was now hoping that the chocolate would help me fight off the negative energy. So now I wolfed the cookies down. Asuka was still looking at me suspiciously. She said she was pretty sure MoSh would be entering a dream pretty soon. When she said 'MoSh' I got hit with some negative energy that made me choke on my last bite of cookie. I ended up spitting half of the bite of cookie onto the floor… yuck… I also had a strong feeling that I was somewhere I shouldn't be… that I definitely didn't want to get caught there. Asuka came over and said I didn't have to inhale her cookies to show I like them… but she still looked concerned. I focused and made the negative energy back off yet again, back to the corners of my mind. I made the mess on the floor vanish.

"What is going…" Asuka started, but then she stopped and looked out the front window, "There he is!" she said, changing the subject, "Out in front of the house. Go right out. I'm sure he'll be glad to see you."

"Who will?" I asked.

Asuka looked at me strangely again, "Well MoSh will be, you silly!" More negative energy… the idea I was doing something I shouldn't be doing… I was somewhere I shouldn't be… an urge to leave before I was seen… but it was too late for that… Asuka had already seen me… and so had Shawna…

I took another cookie off of Asuka's plate as a way to stall. Where was all this negative energy coming from? I had the idea I should know, but I didn't… I nibbled this cookie while Asuka watched me. She finally told me to hurry up or MoSh would wake up and I would've missed the whole dream. She said it was nice to see me again and then left the room. I nibbled the last of my cookie and forced the negative energy back yet again. There was no more reason to stall. I went back out through the front door of the house…

In the front yard I saw MoSh playing with the dog I had seen earlier. The dog chased a ball across the street and disappeared from sight again. I braced myself for more negative energy… but it wasn't as bad as I had been expecting. The primary thing I was feeling was guilt for something… that incessant feeling that I was doing something wrong and I shouldn't be there… I couldn't think why… had MoSh told me to stay away? Was I intruding on his dream uninvited? That didn't sound right… and Asuka would've known about that and wouldn't have been saying MoSh would be glad to see me if he had told me to stay out.

MoSh turned around and saw me… and he definitely didn't look upset. I found myself glancing around as if I thought someone was watching me and that would be how I would get caught and in trouble. MoSh came over to me. He said he'd had the strange idea I wouldn't come. I asked why he had thought that. He paused and then said he didn't know, it was just a feeling he had gotten. He said he was glad the feeling had been wrong. He said it sucks bad enough that we can't chat on Skype... and then if for some reason I was refusing to see him in dreams, too… I almost blurted out that I wasn't supposed to be in his dream at all… but I couldn't think why… so I didn't say it. That didn't make the guilt go away… the feeling I was seriously letting someone else down just by being there…

I refocused my thoughts. Now why had I come here? Just to say 'hi' to MoSh? No… I was transferring spells to him… he had Whiplash… had he said he wanted to know some healing spells, too? I thought he already did know some healing… but that was all I could think of right now. Healing… which one? The first one that came to mind was Liberate by Disturbed. Because it can have a dual effect. Breaking mind control or cleansing dark energy. So that was the one I would transfer… Liberate by Disturbed. I felt another jab of guilt as I made that decision. But why?! It was starting to piss me off. I can transfer my spells to whomever I damn well please! And I wasn't going to let this stupid unexplained guilt tell me otherwise!

While all of that had been going through my head MoSh and I had been talking about… well, I don't remember what we had been talking about. I guess I was coherent enough that nothing I'd said had left him giving me a blank look… or maybe I was babbling and he didn't notice because he wasn't lucid… (Yes, I have thought about dreams and lucidity a couple of times in here but never increased my lucidity!) I told him the song I was thinking about transferring and what it could do. Another thing came into my mind… that when Asuka had been being controlled by a certain asshole whose name I wouldn't mention the spell from Liberate could have broken that asshole's control over her and then purged the dark energy out of her at the same time. He seemed to like that idea of being able to help Asuka if something like that ever happened again.

I used the song spell from Unforgiven II to transfer this Liberate spell over to MoSh. It seemed to work without difficulty. I was hit with the worst pang of guilt yet. I really expected someone to come from one of the houses or alleys and point at me, announcing that I was guilty of the ultimate betrayal. Betrayal? But who was I betraying?! Why wasn't I more lucid? Why couldn't I remember what I was doing wrong by being here? Why was I feeling like the cat who just ate the canary and had yellow feathers sticking out of my mouth? Why was… my train of thought was interrupted as I felt healing energy flowing through me. Where was that coming from? I turned around and saw MoSh was testing the healing spell out on me. He was playing a song I didn't recognize on a guitar. The strength of the guilt faded… but I still felt a slight urge to tell MoSh to stop doing that before someone saw and figured out what I'd done. But what could be wrong with showing someone a healing spell?! It was a fucking healing spell! And I'd shown it to MoSh! It wasn't like I'd been showing a spell to Dennis! Not that Dennis could figure out what to do with it, my mind added… I felt more healing energy as MoSh was using the spell again. The guilt was fading away to become a memory as everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I was in my room. I sat up and looked around. I felt kind of wasted. I didn't really want to get up yet. Was it time to get up? I hoped not. I rolled over and closed my eyes to go back to sleep. But I wasn't falling asleep… there was something I had to do. I had to use a healing spell on someone… who? I knew… A. But could I do that while awake? I didn't know. All I knew was that I wasn't going to be able to go back to sleep until I at least tried…

I got out of bed and grabbed my iPod. I went through my bedroom door and stopped short. I was on a neighborhood street?! Where had that come from? Q appeared in front of me. This was all too weird… I did a reality check and I became lucid…

Q asked me if I was there to do another healing spell on A. I said I guessed I was… but I just realized it was a dream. He said yes, it was a dream. He snapped his fingers and the scene around us changed to the familiar scene with two domes inside a larger dome. I looked into the one on the right. There was a small lab set up outside the building. I could see an unconscious P on the table… and Washu was there. It looked like she was doing some very precise work. She was clearly concentrating on her task. Vegeta was in there with her just glaring at the unconscious P. I wondered if just that was giving P nightmares… Q said Washu was removing the dark shard that was inside P's heart. He said it was proving to be a complicated task. Q said I should just focus on A for now. He created the airlock style portal entrance to the second dome. I went through it into A's area…

Inside the dome I couldn't see any trace of the outside. It didn't look like a containment area, it looked like a nice spot in the forest. I looked around and I spotted A sitting by a small stream. There was a bunny right beside her trying unsuccessfully to get her attention. She looked at me briefly before gazing off into space again. The song that occurred to me to use was Touch My Heart. I used the song, and the area was filled with the golden energy. During the song she had gotten up and was right in front of me now, looking into my eyes. I looked back into her eyes to see if I could find the spark or the flame I was hoping to see. I continued looking… and I could see what I wanted to see. At the same time I felt like someone was poking through my mind. I immediately broke the connection and gave A a dirty look. She laughed.

A started talking about things I did earlier this night. She said it seemed the Black Fists weren't as powerful as they had been made out to be… or my friends and I were much more powerful… So it would seem for this visit the Black Fists left empty handed. They were unable to take anyone. Not only that, but with all that light energy flying around some of them might have left the ranks of the Black Fists, set free to return to their previous dreams. She said it is clear I take my responsibilities as a healer very seriously. She then gave off a smirk. "It's too bad you don't show your friends the same devotion…" I told her to shut up. I told her I would not abandon a friend. She said I already had betrayed a friend. She said she was talking about MoSh. I was ready to go. I didn't need to hear her opinion of MoSh again… I headed for the edge of the dome and telepathically contacted Q for an exit path. I heard A talking behind me.

"MoSh treats one of your best friends with such disrespect as he did and you're still willing to help him?" she was asking in a taunting voice, "He insults one of your friends and you're still willing to share your spells with him? If that isn't a direct betrayal, what is? You will reap the consequences of your choice!" The exit path opened and I went through it quickly. It closed behind me and I could no longer hear A. I was glad for that. Q was looking at me with some concern as everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I love reading your dream journal, Raven. Thank yo so much for taking the time to write your dreams down.

Dark energy does weird things to us, especially to our minds. I want to practice self-healing. When I recorded that last didjeridoo song, Serenity (in waking life) my whole body was tingling afterwards!

I just want to be in a shared dream overall

Note: I fell asleep with no actual plans to accomplish during my dreams. So even though I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on, I wasn't focused on anything so I lost part of my lucidity as I slipped into my WILD…

I was on the moon. I wasn't in the biodome. I looked around, wondering why I was outside on the moon. I stood there for a few minutes before heading in the direction I thought the biodome was in. I hesitated for a bit, wondering if there was really any reason to go to the biodome. I could open a random portal from here just as easily. A portal that would hopefully end up with me finding somewhere I could be useful. I really wanted to do something useful. So I would just open the portal from where I was.

I was about to open a portal when I saw there was someone else there. I looked over to where I saw movement to see Nomad was there with me. I asked him what he was doing wandering the moon. He said he was a nomad… he always wanders. I was about to re-word my question when someone else appeared there. I looked at the new visitor for a couple of minutes, doing a double take before I could fully accept who it was. It was my ex boyfriend / fiancé James! But what the hell was he doing in my dream?! I haven't shared a dream with him since a while before we broke up since he had lost interest in shared dreaming a while before that time.

Nomad asked me if I knew the new visitor. I said yes, I did. I told him it was my ex boyfriend, James. Nomad immediately gave James a really dirty look. James did a double take at that. He asked who that friendly person was, pointing at Nomad. I told James it was none of his business… I wanted to know why he was in my dream. James was calling me by my birth name, Shanna, instead of my true name, Raven, which I found somewhat annoying. I told him Shanna is dead. Now there is only Raven, and Raven is not going to take any shit from him. So he'd better tell me what he wants before I beat the shit out of him and throw him right back to Hell where he came from. I was feeling a rising anger towards James.

It appeared I wasn't the only one mad at James. Nomad seemed pretty pissed off, too, though I wasn't sure why. Nomad was glaring at James, saying he had already heard everything James had done and how much of an asshole James was. Nomad threw a ball of fire at James. James batted the ball of fire aside and gave Nomad a dirty look. James said that if Nomad wanted trouble he had found it. James threw a blast of energy at Nomad. Nomad used the Whiplash effect and sent the energy blast back at James where it exploded. I got between the two of them to get them to stop. I told both of them to quit it. Nomad told me to get out of the way. I told Nomad he didn't want to get into a fight with James… James' power level is somewhere around mine, he would be an asshole about things, so a fight between him and Nomad would not end well for Nomad. Nomad said he wasn't going to run away from that asshole. This is a dream, there is nothing to be afraid of, and maybe I might be surprised. I told him to just not do it, if for no other reason than I was asking him not to. He finally said ok.

James had been talking and I had been ignoring him. I turned around to face him. I told him to get out of my dream and not to come back. I told him I do not want to dream with him any more. He asked if I was really going to stick up for that loser, and he was pointing at Nomad. Nomad was clearly still pissed off at James. I repeated to James that I didn't want to dream with him any longer. I said to Nomad that we should go do something interesting where there weren't any undesirables around. We both turned to walk away from James.

"I just thought you might want to know that you're being used," James called after us.

"Not any more," I said, "I left you behind."

"Not by me," James said. He was now right behind Nomad and me. "Nomad is lying to you. He's just using you, you know. I just don't want to see you taken advantage of."

I was feeling sooooo pissed off. James, the one who claimed to love me only to lie to me and go running off with some fat ugly bimbo slut just because she puts out more in the bedroom! The same asshole who had promised to be honest with me no matter what, and now he had the balls to accuse someone else of lying? I turned around and focused my very best glare on him. "You do realize how much credibility you have with me, right?" I said, "Absolutely none. If you tell me that the moon dust is gray I'm going to have to check for myself to be sure of it!"

"Fine," James said, "Go off with that lying loser! I came to warn you because I still care about you and I don't want to see that asshole hurt you."

"You have done nothing but hurt me," I said, right in his face now, "But you'll never see the pain inside of me, stabbing me over and over and over… I trusted you and I loved you, and you spit back in my face! How could you do this to me? When will you stop trying to hurt me? I've walked a minefield for you! A career in hell with you! I have made it through the things others would surely die just watching! And the oath I take on this day is to know that you will be repaid! One day the sun will die and the night will crawl. Until then, until I see your world implode I wish you death and suffering, misery to spare! Time to release your pain, face the last enemy! I am the last thing you will know, the last thing you will see, I see your death surrounding me! I know you, yes I do, I know you!"

"You're so full of hate now," James said trying to look concerned but not succeeding, "What has he done to you?" James pointed at Nomad again.

"What has HE done to me?" I asked, incredulous that he was continuing to lie even now, "If I am filled with hate now it is because of what YOU did! YOU are the one who dumped negative energy in me, YOU fed that parasite endlessly until it was almost powerful enough to break free, YOU made promises that you never intended to keep, YOU turned your back on me and abandoned me even though I needed you! If someone has filled me with anger and hate it is YOU! And you know something? I have had enough! I'm going to BLAST you out of my fucking dream! And unless you want you and that fat, ugly, bimbo whore wife of yours to have endless nightmares until you both go stark raving mad you had better NEVER return to my dreams! Got it? Good!" I accessed the multiple shards in my Witchblade to create the most powerful blast of energy I could summon on short notice and fired it in the form of a Final Flash (Vegeta's move from Dragonball Z) directly at James. There was a huge explosion. The explosion left a crater in the moon and no sign of James. I felt some better. I looked around to see if there was some chance he was still there. I didn't see him. I was still so angry.

"Are you ok?" Nomad asked from right beside me as he put his arms around me and hugged me.

"I think so," I said, "I just need some time to calm down. The nerve of that asshole!" I was trying to calm myself down, Nomad still had his arms around me, then everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Wow Raven. What a powerful dream. Its a shame a jerk like him had to ruin a perfectly good wild.

beautiful description of - and picture of Paradise in Double Date in Paradise

Wow. Good job sticking up for yourself. Do you think it really was him, or someone else posing as him?

Note: I fell asleep with actual plans for the first time for the past few nights. My first plan had to do with using a healing spell on Nomad's friend, Angel. I focused on this as I slipped into a WILD…

I was in the biodome. I looked around to see if I was alone. I was alone for the time being. I walked over to the koi pond and looked in at the fish. There were a lot of colorful fish. I walked down a path to the hot springs. I looked over the peaceful springs. I looked into the clear water. I was remembering black crap washing into the water. I saw no sign of that now. I peered into the depths. The water was crystal clear. I could see the bottom as if the water was only a few inches deep even though I knew it was much deeper. I was still looking into the depths when I heard someone behind me. I turned to look and I saw Nomad. He asked if I needed a dip in the springs before we went. I said no, I was fine. I said I was ready to do a healing spell on Angel. He said he thought she needed it. I said I was ready when he was. He opened a portal and we both went through…

On the other side we were in a different place. It was a rather nice forest, although it was a bit dark and creepy. Nomad said this was Angel's inner world. He said there was dark energy here that needed to be cleaned up. I focused on the song Full Moonlight. The song cleansed dark energy from the surrounding environment. When the song was done the entire area was much brighter. Nomad was doing a healing spell of his own on his didgeridoo. Golden energy was flowing throughout the forest now. Nomad said he wanted to do a healing spell directly on Angel, too. I asked him where she was. He said we would go to her. He opened a portal and we went through…

On the other side we were in another part of the forest near a beautiful lake. I spotted a bed in a clearing. Nomad walked right over to the bed and looked at the woman lying in it. He said it was Angel. He said she wasn't in a dream right now, but we could heal her here.

I went over to Nomad beside the bed. The bed looked similar to the bed in this picture, though it was a nicer bed. This picture is more to show the surrounding area than the bed itself. I used the song Touch My Heart on the woman lying in the bed. Golden energy flowed around the bed as Nomad was on the opposite side of the bed playing his didgeridoo. The golden energy was absorbed into the woman. Angel didn't wake up. She just rolled over in her sleep. Nomad thanked me for helping him with that. I said I would be willing to help heal someone any time I was needed. I was smiling at Nomad when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Thank you so much, Raven. She had a precognitive dream this morning that protected her from danger. I think us doing that healing helped open her up to that. I wish she would make an account on here, but she isn't at all interested in doing that. Oh well!
You can call her my girlfriend.



Anyway, she told me she had a dream of a truck having a blowout on the road, and this morning when she was driving, she saw a truck of the exact same make model and year. She remembered the dream, and felt danger. She moved away from the truck. The truck had a blowout. She prayed for the driver to be safe, and he got off the road. There were no collisions.

Thank you again so much!

I was in a town. I looked around to see where I was. It looked like a town out of an RPG. I didn't consider the idea I was dreaming. What I did think was that I was in a video game. I thought I had just logged onto an MMORPG. I thought I was supposed to be meeting up with a couple of other party members. I spotted a couple of people I identified as party members. A paladin I identified as Allison and a knight in all black armor that I identified as Nomad. I was thinking I had wanted my character to be a sorceress or a bard so I could use my magic spells like in my dream state… but I didn't really get a good look at myself so I wasn't sure exactly what I looked like. I went over to the other two and asked if anyone had picked up a quest for this game. No one answered. Nomad was giving me a strange look. Allison was muttering something about her armor rating.

A man came over to us. He said we looked like warriors, and he desperately needed help. He said he was the mayor of the town. He said he hadn't told the people yet, but their setra stone was missing. He said if he told the people there would surely be mass panic. I had no idea what the setra stone was. The man continued to explain that it kept the demons in the forest at bay. But without it, they would soon realize the town was defenseless and attack. He said the reptizars had attacked and stolen the stone, taking it back to their underground lair. He said their best warriors had gone after it, but none had returned. Allison summarized the situation… kick reptizar ass, get the setra stone, bring it back. Got it. Anything else? Well, the man said, if we happened to come across any of their warriors when we were down there… Rescue losers. Got it. The man seemed not to know what to say. Allison wanted to get going. The man marked the location of the reptizar lair on our map and then we left.

The reptizar lair wasn't far from the town. There was nothing to be seen from the surface except for a hole in the ground that was the cave entrance. The entrance was partially hidden behind some plants. We descended into the darkness…

The tunnels of the reptizars were only dimly lit. I had the idea the reptizars could see quite well in low light. After a brief time for my eyes to adjust I could see just fine as well. We explored deeper into the tunnels. It became more clear to me that the entrance we had gone in wasn't the main entrance to the reptizar lair… it was more of a back entrance so we could get inside without being noticed. We didn't encounter any reptizars until we reached a larger passage. And when we did the reptizar looked really shocked to see anyone down there. He was really shocked for the whole 10 seconds he lived, that is… Allison quickly dispatched him. He didn't have a chance to make a sound to alert others.

I wondered how we were supposed to know where to find the setra stone. Where were the reptizars keeping it? Probably at the deepest part of the dungeon. Isn't that always the way? We continued exploring deeper into the dungeon. We were encountering reptizars more and more frequently… and taking them out just as quickly. Allison and Nomad were using their swords, I was using song spells. I was thinking that is what a bard is supposed to be able to do and wishing the online game DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online) had it that way.

When we got to what seemed to be the deepest part of the dungeon we found ourselves in a large circular room with a large chest in the center. A huge shaft extended upward to where I could see blue sky. It looked like a trap. It practically had the word 'trap' written all over the walls and the floors. It was such an obvious trap that Allison rolled her eyes and asked if they could have made it any more obvious. In spite of the obviousness of the trap we went into it since the setra stone was no doubt in the chest in the center of the room. The trap went off and we were immediately surrounded by reptizars. The reptizars didn't seem particularly intelligent. We were able to fight them all off and, when we they were all dead, I used an alohamora spell from Harry Potter to open the chest to reveal the setra stone… no. It wasn't the setra stone…

It was a key. A large emerald key. Who had locked a key in a locked chest? That seemed rather redundant. I looked at the key for a bit. What would it fit? I held the key up. It was a large key. It was about the size of a baseball bat. I looked around the room. Allison and Nomad were also looking around the room. I took the key to the back of the room. I saw there was a slight indentation in the rock that was the shape of the key. On a hunch, I inserted the key into that indentation. It slid easily into the hidden keyhole. I turned the key. An entire section of wall slid open to reveal a passage that went still farther into the mountain…

Allison, Nomad, and I went farther into the dungeon. This passage looked like it wasn't used all that often. It was a huge passage. The sides of the passage were charred black as if by flame. But they were cool to the touch, so they hadn't seen flame for quite a while. Looking back at the shaft and at the passage I was thinking it looked like someone had been hiding a space ship down here or something… We kept going and soon reached the chamber at the end of the passage. In that chamber there were more reptizars. One of them in particular had the title 'boss' written on his armor. Or he might as well have had… he didn't really, but it was clear by the fact he had more intricate armor than the others and he was also bigger than the others that he was the boss. A crystal sphere that I figured was the setra stone was mounted on a pedestal. A light was shining from the crystal to a huge statue of a dragon. Just looking at the statue it looked like that dragon was evil… What were they trying to do? Wake it up? Bring it to life? Get themselves eaten? Whatever they were trying to do, that stone was needed back in the town… so we attacked the enemies.

The boss reptizar commanded the others to attack us while he continued guarding the setra stone. I was not wanting to spend time messing with the minions… I wanted to kick the boss' ass! I headed for him a couple of times but each time I was intercepted by lesser reptizars. Nomad made a go at the boss and got clobbered by three reptizars. I hit the boss with a bolt of lightning. That seemed to piss him off. I did it again. He was now pissed off enough to make him abandon the setra stone. He came out and joined the fight. Everyone contributed to killing the boss… Allison ran her sword through the asshole's heart at the same time as Nomad cut off its head at which point my bolt of lightning ran right through that hole. Hmmm… cut out his heart then cut his head off and shoved a lightning bolt down his throat… Was he dead enough? The lesser reptizars tried to run away. That seemed to annoy Allison. I figured she wanted to get the experience points for all of them. I was just thrilled that I had found a video game that let me use my song spells. I thought that was awesome! Nomad took the setra stone off of the pedestal and put it in a bag he was carrying tied around his waist.

Allison had just killed the last reptizar present and then she came back over. She asked if we had grabbed the stone. Nomad said he had it. Allison said she thought she had gotten all the cowards that were running away. I commented that getting them would mean extra experience points. She said we needed to get the stone back. I agreed. Did this game have a 'recall' feature like DDO? I wanted to use it. There were a lot of tunnels and passages to get back to the surface. I opened a portal back to the town and we used that instead of a recall…

When we got back to the town the mayor was thrilled to see us. He said he hadn't expected to see us so soon. He asked about the stone. Nomad handed it to him. He was visibly relieved. He asked about their other warriors. I said we hadn't seen any trace of them. He was a bit disappointed in that. He said he would have to give us a reward for our aid. I figured the reward would be lame, I had mainly wanted the experiences points. I remembered telling Nomad I would do something… tell him he was dreaming? Wait… was this a game or a dream? How could I tell? A reality check would fail in either a game or a dream… crap… well, I would tell Nomad what I had said I would tell him. I told Nomad he should wake up now and take some notes on the dream so he would remember it better. He said he didn't feel like it. I reminded him he had told me to tell him this. He said he was too tired. Hmmm… was there some way I could force him to wake up? I didn't know of any… and as I was thinking about that I was the one to wake up.

I was in a school. It looked a bit like Hogwarts… A lot of big rooms that looked like part of a castle. The part that didn't fit was that I was working on my laptop. I thought I remembered hearing that technology wasn't supposed to work in Hogwarts… Oh, well. My laptop must be just that awesome that it still worked.

I was working out a plan. I wanted to figure out how to find out what Draco Malfoy was up to. I was also hoping there would be some way to heal him so he wouldn't be such an asshole any more. I was typing up a Word document and searching the internet for information on Draco Malfoy that might not be as widely known as what was explicitly stated in the book. (Now not only does technology work in Hogwarts, but there is also wi-fi?!) I didn't consider the strangeness of that. I somehow hacked into an email account. It was plans made between Snape and Draco to meet and discuss plans more thoroughly. I would have to spy on that meeting and find out what I could find out. I closed my laptop and put it in my bag. I spotted the room where the meeting was to take place. I was in the library right now, and the meeting room was one of the private rooms off of the library. I saw the door close so I went over and stood near it, pressing my ear against the door to listen…

I could hear voices inside speaking really softly. I could only catch a few words of what was said. That was no good… how could I figure out their plans without knowing more information? I pressed my ear tighter against the door in an attempt to hear. Now there were no voices. I had pulled my head back just in time to keep from getting the door slammed against it when Snape and Draco came out. Both of them glared at me and left to do who knows what. I had failed to get the information I needed… could I try again? I thought of course I could! I had saved my progress just before this! Since I didn't like this outcome I went back to the save point… (How did I do this? No clue!)

I was back at the table with my laptop. Ok. It hadn't been good that I had tried to listen through the door. Not only had I not heard anything, I had been spotted! I entered a couple notes on the situation on my laptop and once again closed it when I saw Snape and Draco go by. I headed for that room again. This time I didn't wait by the door. I spotted a vent. Those usually carry sound well… I climbed up on a table and stood near the vent. I could hear Snape's and Draco's voices as clear as day. They were planning on stealing an immortality potion and give it to Voldermort. That seemed like a bad idea. I was listening to the last of it when the librarian came up behind me and asked what I thought I was doing. I got in an argument with her and I got down. I didn't see Snape and Draco leave. Finally the librarian left me alone after I promised I wouldn't climb on the furniture any more…

Ok… so now where had Snape and Draco gone? I needed to find them. I saw Harry, Ron and Hermione sitting at a table with some books. Hermione was very interested in the books, Harry and Ron were muttering to each other. I went over to them and asked if they saw Snape and Draco leave. Ron said he wasn't puking his guts out. I asked what that had to do with anything. Ron said Snape and Draco could only be in the private room to do one thing, and that thought made him sick. He said just thinking about those two making out was going to make him sick. He took off and puked in a trash can not far off. Eeewww… Harry told him to get his mind out of the gutter. Harry said he hadn't seen Snape or Draco. Hermione looked up and asked what was going on. Harry said Ron was fantasizing about Snape and Draco getting it on. Hermione said that was disgusting… but she wouldn't be surprised if it happened. I asked if she had seen Snape and Draco leave. She said no and went back to her book. Great. I had no idea where the immortality potion was, so I couldn't stop them unless I followed them. Damn! I would have to do it again! Return to previous save point…

I was at the table using my laptop again. I entered a couple more notes on the previous plan that had failed. I was trying to think of another plan when I heard something breaking. Crash! Crash! Wtf? That hadn't happened before… wasn't this rendition supposed to be the same as the previous ones? I was looking towards the sound of the breaking things when another student came around the corner and smashed a window with a club. I figured if the librarian had gotten on my case for standing on the furniture then she would have a field day with this guy! Maybe I could do my vent idea again since she would certainly be distracted. But the librarian wasn't doing anything… great. She had just been picking on me! The guy that was breaking things came over and smashed my laptop with his club and then took off. I sat there a bit stunned for a bit… wait a minute! That asshole had broken my computer!

I took off chasing after the asshole, pushing Snape and Draco out of the way as they were about to go into the meeting room to talk. Snape fell on his ass and yelled something nasty at me that I didn't notice. The guy I was following broke some more things. A few vases, a couple of lamps… Everyone was staring, but no one was doing anything about it. I chased the guy all of the way to Professor McGonagall's office… I went into the room after him and saw McGonagall was there. I pointed at the guy and told her he had broken my… she told me to go away, she would handle this. I asked about my laptop. She just repeated she would handle this and shut the door in my face.

I turned around and sulked back to the library. I had clearly missed Snape and Draco again. Could I do the save point trick without my laptop? I was thinking I couldn't. Damn! Now what would I do? I got back to the library and saw Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Draco were all sitting together… Wtf? I went over to them. Draco, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were all talking. They were talking about cheese. I was thinking I could offer Draco cheese and maybe get him to reveal the location of the potion. But Hermione summoned cheese. She made nachos. She offered me nachos. I sat down and was eating nachos with Draco, Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Draco was saying he'd had enough of Snape telling him what to do. If Snape wanted that immortality potion, he could get it himself. He laughed and said that a crazy kid had broken the bottle of potion, so Snape would have to suck it out of the carpet if he wanted to drink it. I figured that would solve the issue. I ate some more nachos and woke.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

I sat there a bit stunned for a bit… wait a minute! That asshole had broken my computer!

Snape fell on his ass and yelled something nasty at me that I didn't notice.

Ahahaha!!!!

That's pretty odd... in my lucid last night, I began in a place that reminded me a lot of Hogwarts. I didn't stick around too long, as I wasn't really doing anything and the place started to bore me. Still, do you think we were in the same place?

Hey, Raven, how do you fall asleep with your "intentions"? Do you visualize it, do you repeat a mantra, etc.

Originally Posted by Portalboat

Hey, Raven, how do you fall asleep with your "intentions"? Do you visualize it, do you repeat a mantra, etc.

I have plans firmly set in my mind, and visualizations of me doing completing the plans.

I was quite tired when I went to bed and I ended up falling asleep without my light / sound machine on. I was, however, focused on my indented plans for the night. I fell asleep with my initial plan being to go to MoSh's inner world to take MoSh and Asuka to the Healing Glen for a healing spell…

I was in a beautiful forest glen. I looked around to see where I was. I thought since I was in such a beautiful place I would relax for a bit. I sat down beside a large tree and closed my eyes. I let my mind wander. I soon heard people there with me. I was a bit disappointed. It had been nice when I had been there alone. But then again there was no way I could honestly expect to have such a beautiful place to myself. Other people have a right to be there, too. I was hoping they wouldn't be rude people who litter… if they were I would just clean up after them.

I opened my eyes and looked at the people there with me. I recognized them! Basara, Angel, Nomad, MoSh, Asuka, and Sydney were all there. I did a double take at seeing them all. I got up and went over to see them. I said hello. I asked what was with the big party. Nomad said we were going to get some healing going on. Ok… I figured I could try to help with that. I could focus on one of my healing spells. I didn't know if it would work since I wasn't dreaming, but it was certainly a nice setting to try it in. I told them all to count me in.

All of us were together in the beautiful glen, each person was doing a healing spell of some kind. I was focusing on the song Touch My Heart from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack. I was visualizing it so clearly in my mind that I would've sworn I could actually hear the song playing. Golden energy was flowing throughout the glen. The energy was very relaxing. I wondered if I was contributing to that energy. Was my song actually producing healing energy? It would be sooooo awesome if I could do that IWL! The golden energy flowed into all of us and then the songs were over.

I saw MoSh and Asuka go off to the side and they were talking to each other. I had the idea it was something private so I didn't intrude. They talked for a bit and then they hugged. Whatever was being said it was obviously not something bad… or they had gotten past the bad part. I looked around the glen a bit more. There was still some residual golden energy over everything that made everything seem to glow. It was a beautiful effect…

(Ironic detail: the label on this pic says 'dreamworld backdrops' and I saw it in a dream... )
I'm not sure how much time passed that I was just standing there looking around the glen. Nomad was right beside me. He said it looked like everything was good between Asuka and MoSh. I turned to look at them. They were on the other side of the clearing talking and laughing about something. They seemed to feel good.

I was starting to think about going home… but how did I get home from there? I thought and I couldn't remember how I had gotten to the forest glen in the first place. I followed a trail out of the glen and it led to a small stream. The stream was very familiar, but I somehow knew it was not the way home. Damn! How could I be lost? Nomad asked if I was ok. I told him I was lost… He asked what I meant. I told him I didn't know how to get home. He said all I had to do was wake up. I looked at Nomad strangely. Wake up? Was he saying I was sleeping? I was considering doing a reality check when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I was in a desert. It was night time. I looked around. I could see rolling sand dunes in all directions. The sky was so dark that the stars seemed much brighter than normal. I stood for a few minutes just looking up at the stars. The sky was beautiful. I looked around some more. There was a pyramid there. I went towards it. It was like the pyramids of Egypt. I thought that was sooooo cool. I wanted to check it out. I headed in the direction of the pyramid. I saw there were some other people there. I didn't know who they were. I figured they were just tourists. No matter. There weren't that many of them… I headed for the group. I thought maybe there would be a tour into the pyramid. That would be awesome. I wondered if there was any way I could explore in the pyramid on my own. That would be even more awesome.

I was almost to the group of people when I had to jump back out of the way to avoid being hit by a bus! Wtf? What the hell was a bus doing in the middle of a desert? It was a double decker bus! It reminded me of the double decker Nightbus off of Harry Potter. I thought that was cool. I was surprised it hadn't gotten stuck in the sand. The people started getting on the bus. I was thinking I might have missed the pyramid tour… but I definitely didn't want to be left behind. This was the last bus back to civilization. Besides, I've never ridden on a double decker bus. That could be fun, too. I could check out the pyramid tomorrow. I hurried and got onto the bus. I was the last one on and the door closed right behind me.

The first thing I noticed was there was music playing on the bus. I wasn't sure what kind it was, but I didn't think much of the selection. I figured it wasn't my place to complain about it, though. I hadn't even paid to get on the bus. The second thing I noticed was the driver. He looked familiar. I didn't have time to place his name before the bus took off at high speeds into the sky. I grabbed onto one of the poles by the bus driver to hold myself up. When I was sure I had my footing I looked back at the driver. This time I was able to place a name. It was Nomad driving the bus!

"Hey, Raven!" Nomad said, "Welcome to the Moon Bus! What do you think?"

"It's cool except for the music," I said. I didn't see any reason to lie about not liking the music.

"What? You don't like this?" Nomad asked, acting offended. I could tell it was an act, though. He said he had a couple stops to make before the moon. We made a sharp bank in the air and plunged down towards the Earth again. We came to a sliding halt in what looked like the athletic field of a school. The door opened and a young man got in. I didn't recognize him. I thought he looked slightly familiar, but before I could place a name the bus had taken off again…

I was looking around at the other people on the bus to see if I could figure out what was going on. I thought I vaguely recognized some of them. I was looking right at a guy who seemed to have cybernetic parts when he disappeared… He disappeared into thin air! Wtf? I told Nomad that a passenger had vanished. Nomad said he had probably just woken up.

"Woken up?" I asked, "You mean people sleep on this bus?!" I couldn't imagine being able to sleep with the way the bus was moving… Nomad just agreed that the guy had probably woken up.

We came to a screeching halt in another place. I was holding on to the bus too tightly to see where we were this time. There was another guy outside the bus door. He had a dark aura around him… he had dark energy! My first inclination was to use a healing spell on him… but something inside said no. I didn't understand why I wouldn't use a healing spell on someone with dark energy… but I felt using a healing spell would be the wrong thing to do… so I didn't. The guy outside looked into the bus and said it seemed pointless to take a bus to the moon when he could get there just fine on his own. To the moon?! This bus was going to the moon? The guy outside the bus took off flying, making me think of Vegeta shooting off into the sky. That was weird, too. I was considering that I might be dreaming. The bus launched off into the sky again, shaking any thoughts of dreams from my mind.

And the moon was where we went! The bus shot into outer space and flew over the surface of the moon. This trip was far more awesome than exploring the pyramids! I was on the moon! We flew into a landing area on a tall tower. Then the doors opened and everyone was getting out. I got out and followed Nomad. Nomad was talking about dream worlds we have created but not visited in a while. I said we'd have to do that soon in a dream… but being on the moon now was awesome! Nomad looked at me and then at a telescope. I peered through the telescope. I saw a space station with some aliens inside. I could see it so well I could see the aliens through the windows… and a telescope pointed right back at us! One of the aliens peered aside from the telescope and waved. I thought that was strange, but I waved back. Nomad looked through the telescope for a bit and then back at me.

I was talking to Nomad about various things as we went outside of the tower into a biodome at the base of it. We walked for a short while until we found the guy who had taken off like Vegeta. He was standing in the middle of a patch of flowers now, looking at one of them closely. He still had an aura of dark energy but he didn't seem to be acting like he was infected with it. Maybe it was just there and he was using it… that seemed odd, but appeared to be the case. There were a couple of women there with him. They were smelling the flowers. I was still staring at the guy with dark energy.

"I can see the way you're looking at him," Nomad said, "Don't use a healing spell on Walms. He definitely won't appreciate it."

"Walms?" I asked, not recognizing the name, "He is using dark energy?"

"It's ok," Nomad said.

"Yeah," I said, "It looks stable. That's unusual for dark energy..."

Nomad and I walked off to the side a bit and we were talking about healing people. Using soul healing on various people. He asked how my soul healing on A and P was coming. I said I wasn't sure. I told him it had better start working soon… I didn't think we could just keep them in my inner world forever… but they couldn't leave without being a threat to MoSh… so I wasn't sure what to do. Nomad said I should just not give up. Then Nomad was asking me about using soul healing on my ex boyfriend / fiancé, James. I asked why he would want to bother with that. I asked it more of a nasty tone of voice than I really meant to. I told him if I ever see that jerk in my dreams again it will be too soon. So unless by 'soul healing' he meant give the jerk nightmares until the end of time, I had absolutely no interest. Nomad apparently saw that it had upset me. He apologized and hugged me. I was hugging Nomad back when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I was in a strange place. I was feeling quite disoriented. I was trying to focus my mind. Was I dreaming? I must be dreaming. Everything around me seemed somehow surreal. I did a nose pinch reality check and found out for sure that I was dreaming. But I was still so disoriented. Why was that?

I looked around and saw I wasn't alone. There was a man there with me. I was too disoriented to think who it was. But the energy I got from him was friendly… so I grabbed onto his arm. I was trying to stabilize my mind by stabilizing my body. It seemed to work a little bit. I remembered the man's name. Nomad. I was in a shared dream with Nomad. I let go of his arm and found myself disoriented again. I grabbed hold of him one more time. He looked a bit puzzled. I told him how disoriented I was. He told me to find something to focus on and just not try to do anything. I was focused on him because he was the only thing I could really see clearly. It seemed to work. I let go of Nomad and felt like I could stay in the dream.

"Feel better?" Nomad asked.

"A little," I said, "Where are we?"

"I wanted to put up some astral defenses around Angel tonight," Nomad said. That led me to believe I was currently in the astral plane… which might explain my increased disorientation. I told Nomad I'd put up a shield. I focused on the song Blitzkrieg by Metallica to generate a sphere of energy around me. That sphere of energy expanded until it seemed to surround the entire world. The spell appeared successful, but it did nothing good for my disorientation. I was feeling just as bad if not worse than when I had first arrived! I reached out and grabbed onto Nomad again for support… but Nomad wasn't there. He had gone. Most likely to provide other defenses for Angel. But that wouldn't do any good for keeping me in this dream. I was trying to find something else to focus on when I lost the dream entirely and woke.

...I thought I vaguely recognized some of them. I was looking right at a guy who seemed to have cybernetic parts when he disappeared...

Robo!