Ari's Labyrinth

Hey! I'm trying not to make this too fancy, just quick so you know what's going on.

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People
Samya: My best friend. We live in different states. Light blonde, though she usually is rather unkempt, she's very pretty.
Ashlyn: Another best friend, an internet one though. She's just plain awesome.
49: Who knows? Only in one of my dreams, but very mysterious. I feel drawn to 49.
Austin: My cat. Female, thank you very much. She's kind of mean.

04.03.2010

Games with my Subconcious (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I went back to sleep. Silly cat dream.
I find myself playing.. The Sims? The first Sims? Well. I'm playing some random guy, I really don't know who he is, but my sim is going to work. I find I can control him and see the inside of his work building, which is strange, but I don't think much of it. I have him go about his normal work day.
The coffee machine breaks and I ignore it, because really he doesn't need any coffee, but I make him socialize with his co-workers. I guess he needs it. Social is always good, though I can't see his need bar. Why am I playing this? The game freezes.
Waking up.. again.. wow, that was a short one. Maybe I'll try a DEILD. Why not?

04.03.2010

Excitement the Delicious Dream Killer (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I sighed. Waking up again? Might as well go back to sleep. There was light from under the door. This told me there was almost an hour before I needed to get up.. let's try getting back into that dream.
Blinking, I looked at the area. Ah, memories. The Sims 1. It was the same as before, a workplace, but now it was a younger version of Mrs. Crumplebottom from The Sims 2 that I was playing as. I could control her actions, something that I wasn't able to do in the actual game. I had her file some things and throw a couple of paper airplanes. It was pretty fun.
I suddenly found myself in a beautiful place, standing where there was lots of dark green, soft grass below me. Cliffs and waterfalls were all over the place, the air nice and warm. An omnipotent voice spoke to me, though it was less than a voice, just a feeling or maybe I saw it. "I want you to find a tall cliff," it told me. "Easy!" So I moved my sight until I found some tall cliffs. "Good job," the voice told me, and then I realised something. I had moved.. my sight? Without moving my body.
"I'm dreaming. Of course!" I got excited. It was a dream! I was having a lucid dream for the first time since actually trying. I ran, launching myself forward excitedly and taking a bound off of the closest cliff. I felt the air rush past me, seeing the nice green grass coming torwards me. Landing on my hands and knees with nothing more than a dull thud, something in front of me caught my eye.
Something was floating in front of me, an instant messenger, I presumed. On it was posted:
49: Are you in?
I was confused at first, but realised what it meant. I use 'getting in' for becoming lucid quite often. Yes, I was lucid, so I guess I was in, whoever 49 was. Slowly, slightly confused, I type in "Yes." and press the send key. 49 posted back, but I couldn't make it out, I had forgotten how to stabilize my dream and was losing it fast.
I did it, I realised, waking up. But questions rushed through my mind. Who was 49? Was he/she my dream guide? Was the 'voice' 49? Had it been leading me into lucidity? I couldn't answer them. All I knew was that it was time for me to get back into reality. Whoop-dee-doo.

05.03.2010

Drip, drip! (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Nnngh.. freakin' cat keeps waking me up.
I was standing in the kitchen, looking around. Going about my daily schedule. Looking up, I saw that it was beginning to leak. It was like it was raining from the ceiling, less leaking. I gave a hiss, diving out of the way, but it was all over. My family was freaking out, and I was too, so we all went outside. The wind was blowing really hard now. We all hid behind some random wall. I began waking up.
No.. no.. become lucid! Stop! I'm dreaming! Come on.. I was rubbing my hands together.
I was doing the same when I woke up.

Sorry for lack of updates. I've had a lot of dreams, but none were lucid or significant. In one I was Jacob from Twilight, and in one I was some werewolf and Jacob wanted me to join his pack. Weird.

22.03.2010

It's a Dream, See? (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was almost immediately thrust into danger. Some.. thing, slightly resembling R2D2 but also more vulnerable, has, from my dream memory, been killing people for a while. I'm the only one it's not trying to kill, therefore the only one who can properly dispose of it. "Greeeeaaat," I mutter. I'm in a room with slightly see-through walls, comprised of three rooms seperated by a half wall and an arch door. Outside the walls is complete blackness. Also, I notice, my friend Sarah's in the room, and I'm bent on protecting her. I try to wrestle with the thing, and Sarah's not happy with the goings-on.
"Don't worry," I assure her, "It's only.. a dream!" It's a dream! I repeated in my head, happy with myself. Reality check first.. she didn't believe me. I rush into the room on the other side of the area, then plug my nose. I can breathe through it, and it feels really weird! Next the fingers-through-the-hand RC.. it works. I do it about three times, just excited about how awesome it feels. Okay, back on track. Get rid of that thing. I get into the other room, pull out a pistol from who-knows-where, and begin shooting at the thing. It obviously takes more damage this way. In the corner of my vision I start to see a little '1 2 3 4' and it depletes. I'm pretty sure it's how many times the thing will respawn, but it's not, just the health bar. I keep shooting, trying to repeat to myself 'I'm in a dream'. Soon, though, my dream fades..
I did it! I shift my position in bed slightly, eyes still closed, and try to fall asleep again.

Another update after a long time. I had a dry spell - but it was rewarded with this big chunk of a dream! Also, thanks to anybody who thanked. That sounds slightly paradoxical, but alrighty.

04.05.2010

Cre-cre-cre-creation! (WBTB)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I wake up, tossing and turning.. oh my god, I'm SO hungry! I get up and eat a granola bar, then go back to sleep. Much better!
I'm thrust into a lucid dream. At first I don't notice that I'm lucid (but I know it's a dream) and I'm in a character creation room to make who I'll look like in my dream. I create something that looks like me, and find myself in a mix between two schools I've been in (though the enterance only looks like one). Nothing of importance happens, so I go back into the creator and start over. I have short, straight, fluffy hair. It's black with hot pink highlights and a bleached white under-layer. I walk up the hallway/ramp and turn to the right, where I find a little lounge. I proudly announce to my friends (Indi, Samya, and some people I don't remember too well) who I am and we spaz together in excitement. A class goes by so quickly I barely notice and as we walk out I spot myself in a mirror. I'm a little short for my taste. "Watch this," I say boldly and close my eyes (a risky move!) to concentrate on getting taller. When I open them, I am taller, but my dream is not so stable. "Cool.. come on!" Samya pulls me along, but soon I get lost and wander into a crevice.
The dream goes into 'storytelling' mode and I can't seem to control it right. I'm with some creatures in a cave which look like nothing I've seen before, I can't get out (Come on! I'm lucid, I can get shorter..?) and the only food we have is a cracker. The dream narrator (I wonder if it was 49, random musing) says "One hundred years later, in the year 1000.." and it's the same room. The creatures are licking at space helmets that they're wearing, and the sides of theirs soon melt. Instead they begin licking the sides of mine. It melts, too, and the dream fades.
My eyes are still closed, but I smile. That, I think, was a lucid dream.