Singularity's Dream Journal: Misadventures with Gravity

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Hey guys. I like the snazzy DreamJournal software, so I've decided to start posting dreams here. I mean, I should be writing them down anyways, so why not? I'll mostly be posting new dreams here, but I have a fair bit of a backlog I can turn to if I feel like it. I have a couple favorites that I will be sharing at some point. Comments are welcome. Interpretations are fine too, if I specifically ask. I don't really need people picking apart every dream, because after all I know most of them are silly. If something doesn't make sense, (besides the normal dream silliness) it's probably based on some video game. If you don't know the video game, I'll try to explain it in at least decent detail, but when in doubt... google it! And without further ado... here we go.

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12/4/2009 Wind Waker and... Lube?! (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Well, I'm a gamer. And most of my dreams are based on video games somehow. This one is no exception. From what I can gather, I'm playing a video game that at first is more like Kingdom Hearts than anything else. I'm playing competitively against my little brother, and we're getting annoyed that it's easy to run off into the next screen while you're swinging at each other. ((Which is easy enough to do in the actual game, too.)) I remember my little brother going into the menu and disabling some of his controls to make it easier for us to fight... I'm not sure why he did though, since that would decidedly give me the advantage. Anyway, at some point the game switches to a distinctive Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker feel, and I'm playing solo. I'm at some particular part in the storyline, not sure where, but it's stormy out. I'm running around near the docks to try to find more items or cutscenes before I move on. I come to a transition area that's labeled in some kind of Japanese, which immediately intrigues me. This area is a ladder leading down from the docks. I start to climb down it, and the King of Red Lions, the ever-useful boat from that game, starts talking to me. He warns me that it's dangerous, you know, stormy weather and all, and then for some reason starts yelling at me to use lube, as if it'd help protect me somehow. Even in the dream this makes me pause for a second, like "Wha?" I ignore his random outburst and climb into the boat, and lay down flat clutching the deck. I see this giant wave rise and crash over the boat. Something pops up on the screen about some "Form F", or something, but then I see that I'm controlling a seagull, like you can in that game if you lure them with pears. It starts flying towards the boat, and I get the feeling link actually became the seagull this time, instead of just controlling it. The dream fades right about here.

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12/05/2009 Sonic's Air Ride, the RPG (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID There are two dreams I remember. The first one was earlier in the night, so I've lost most of the details, but I remember playing a game where you run around collecting rings and such, a la Sonic. However, instead of it being your objective to make it to the end of the stage, your job was to collect all these things within time-limits, and you got awarded various "Badges" or "Panels" for this. I forget why, but they had various affects, took some points to use or equip, and stacked in some cases, with diminishing returns. The system's pretty similar to Paper Mario's badge system. I remember having a lot of "Damage Undead" badges, and a few "Grenade" and "Frag Grenade" badges, too. I woke up when my roommate tripped over something at 5 AM, so that's all I can remember. The second dream was pretty similar to the first, except I don't remember badges, and the game was more like Kirby Air Ride. In fact, it was pretty much Kirby Air Ride, but with missions. I distinctly remember one mission, which was to run around collecting items from panels before the CPU players could. I tried this and failed, apparently because I'd accepted some side-mission to collect mushrooms for the mayor--who also gave out the race for panel items--and got the two mixed up. So I was running around getting mushrooms while the race timer ticked down. Whoops... I ended up handing the controller to someone else, who I can't remember, and letting them handle it. I remember them handling it really smoothly, racing for the back of the area where a ton of panels were in one area. One part required Kirby to float over a gap, and get onto a star in mid-air. A CPU player had the vehicle already, but he somehow manages to hitch a ride anyway. He makes it across, kind of goes destructive and kills off the CPU players, then runs across the panels collecting items at his leisure. The panels said various things, like "Trick" or "Speed" or whatever, but the text seems to be meaningless. Either panels have mission items in them, which pop up when you run over them, or nothing happens at all. When all the items appear, some mission complete text pops up and he warps back to the mayor. I dunno what he won, but I remember some "Lama" counter going up to 14, which I took to mean he's completed this mission 13 times. I don't know why. I also remember some cleverly hidden red pipes hidden around, which warped you to different areas, but I forget where that fits into the dream. Probably before the mission, but I'm not sure.

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Right, I've been busy, so I have a couple days of backlog to post. Here goes. 12/06/2009 Secret Baby Ninja Technique (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I didn't write this down right away, so it's pretty hazy, but I remember being in some audience watching some sort of act. It's obviously intended for humor, even though it doesn't seem funny at first glance. There are a bunch of short skits involving adults that are trying to harass chilldren, but getting thwarted. Think Home Alone, though not nearly as intricate. One skit I remember is, there's a platform of sorts anchored to the wall several feet off the floor, with a ladder or board of some kind to climb up to it. This adult had cornered a kid onto this platform, but when he jumps on to it the platform comes loose and falls to the ground. They're both unharmed, but the boy runs off before the man can come to his senses. There's some cheering and applause from the audience. But the skit I most vividly remember is that of a young baby abandoned on this same platform. ((It got reset between skits, I guess.)) The poor baby seemed to be stranded, the only way down being a corkboard with a bunch of tacks in it. I remember a cartoonish noose around the boy's neck, too, but that vanished quickly and played no part in anything. This baby, however, expertly climbed down to the floor by hanging off the tacks somehow. He went so far as to do fancy crossover-flip things; that is, grab a tack with his right hand, spin his back to the wall and grab the next one in the line with his left hand. Rinse and repeat. There was tons of applause at the end, and I think the kid got milk and cookies. It was quite the show. I also remember a random part of the dream where I seemed to have a third arm attached to the left-center of my chest. It was kinda hanging there limply, and quite thin and... flat. I'm pretty sure it had no bones or muscles, and was just filled with blood. It started to become quite blue-colored, and I remember bitching to someone or other asking for help. I couldn't move my proper left arm either... it was like this third arm was some sort of parasite stealing all the blood. It was weird...

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12/07/2009 Final Fantasy 7... and cake (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID The details are vague, but I was definitely playing Final Fantasy 7. I remember going through a section of the game twice. The first time I take my sweet time, going around looking for items and secrets, fighting battles, and so on. For some reason I have to go through this area a second time, though I don't remember why. This second time, I'm speeding through the area, and at one point I'm distinctly trying to get past a Shinra soldier without fighting him. Suddenly, perspective changes and I'm in the game as myself, with photorealistic graphics. The scenario essentially became reality, at least within the dream. And it's at this moment the soldier I'm trying to sneak past sees me, grabs me by the arm, and spins me to face him. He's only holding me with one arm, but I'm still struggling a great deal trying to escape. He happens to be smoking too, and holding the cigarette in his other hand. He winds up pushing the lit end of his cigarette into the skin on my arm. The pain is greatly muted, but not absent, and I squirm a little. He goes, "Doesn't that hurt?" and I respond, "Yes it does, but not enough to stop me!" There's, again, a fragment of this dream that seems unrelated, and I can't recall where it fits in. But it just involves me and a bunch of friends chilling, and I go to get a piece of cake. There's only one piece left, so I have to share it with my other friend that wants a piece. I'm a little annoyed that I have to share, when everyone else already had pieces of their own, but it doesn't bug me much. I just shrug and go with it.

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12/09/2009 House by Day, Bunker by Night (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Alright, so from what I remember of the dream I'm chilling at this large, nice-looking house with some friends. I have no idea whose house it is, but I'm pretty sure none of my friends own it. Some of them are staying there though. I remember only one scene vividly, where I was watching my friend J do his laundry. It seems like I'd done this before, and that last time I did I'd offered to help him with the laundry. But when I'd done that, someone else I don't know had ended up popping out of the shadows, like they were stalking him. I don't remember what happens after that, but I know I don't want to go through that again. So instead, I tell him "good luck with that", and start to leave the room. At this point, though, we both pause and look out the window as a large portion of the building across from us collapses down into the ground. There's nothing visible but a metal sheet that's flush with the ground. Even though it's separate from the building we're in now, it's still connected somehow. J starts to complain that he'd wanted to go around outside to that building to sleep or something, but now he has to go through the inside of the building underground, which I guess takes longer. After this though, I feel a distinct sensation in my teeth. It's as though a bunch of them are tight together, making a lot of pressure in my mouth. I feel around a bit with my tongue and fingers, and out comes a little overlapping cluster of 2 or 3 teeth, somehow melded together. This is all painless, too. I recall J asking something like "How's that working out for you?" After this, I'm very intrigued. For some reason, I reach in and effortlessly pull out my entire lower set of teeth, as one coherent unit. They look kind of plasticy and fake, though, and I still feel my teeth in my mouth. Because of this, I become lucid. Almost immediately, though, my dream skips to a false awakening. I don't lose lucidity, but the dream becomes very unclear and hazy. I sit up in bed, looking at my hands and intending for more clarity, but to no avail. I end up waking up around now, although the transition was so smooth that it took me a minute to gather my thoughts and realize it. All I know is that I realized that I couldn't breathe through my throat when I'd blocked it off, and then a minute later I came to my senses and realized, "right, I'm awake now." So woot, lucid dream. I will admit to being a little disappointed at how it turned out, but that's alright. It's still a lucid dream, and it's progress. I ended up in that half-asleep, in-and-out state for an hour after the fact, too, until my alarm went off. Disorienting as it was, it was kind of nice, and I'd like to mess more with that state if I get the chance.