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Another search comes up empty. At least I actually located an Academy, this time! I just wasn't able to make it inside. :?

09/06/2011 - "Almost Made it to the Academy Again...Almost"

Yeah sorry, I've been trying to visit again. I hit a bad dryspell but it's over now. I've been really focused on the TOTY, so I haven't had much time. But the good thing is that I did discover a lot in my only visit. I was happy to see some of things I saw in the blue prints. :D

I think I found the acadamy before I knew about dream views. :O

So I was walking down this corridor. It was dark outside. I looked to my right and saw a class room. A bunch of figures in cloaks were writing on paper. I looked inside the door and saw a man with an eye patch. He had a pony tail and black hair. I thought he was the teacher. I looked at the sign and it said blood mage class.

Then I woke up.

FOUND IT!!! well, teleported to it, so i don't know how to get there on foot, or in air. It's an acadamy in the sky. here's my dream:

I am walking on the road near my house, and talking to chris. we part ways and i head towards this crowd of people. i hear someone say. "Kaleb is lucid." i walk up to Kaleb and talk to him. i do an RC and find out i'm dreaming. i start trying to decide what to do and remember the acadamy. i walk up to a random guy. "Hey man, can you teleport me to the Dream World Acadamy?" "Sure." i hear a teleporting noise and i'm there. i'm in a large front room, and walk outside. there's a balcony and i look over the edge. "AWESOME!!! I FOUND THE SKY ACADAMY!!!" i get very excited, and walk back inside. there's an old man with reading glasses and a white coat there writing on a piece of paper with a quill pen. i walk up to him and say "hi." he looks up from his paper (parts of this conversation are fuzzy, so i'll fill in the blanks with normal stuff, te abnormal stuff i remember.) then looks back to it. "hi" "what's your name?" i ask. "Clint." he says. "What do you specialize in? "Wind powers that are far too advanced for you to try." "Flying?" "Among other things, such as making airborn germs become more frequent, or making someone's blood test read infected with the flood." "Can you teach me to fly?" His eyes lit up as he looked at me, but he didn't smile. I noticed they were blue. "Come on." he said, getting up. he led me to a fenced in field and tries to demonstrate. he does some strange moves that i can't remember, then gets a running start and leaps, without effect. i try it too, but it doesn't work. i start talking and pacing around a rock. he says something about a problem at the acadamy, but seems friendly now for some reason. "Are you going to sleep in that cave tonight?" he asks, and i look. there's a cave sitting in the distance. "Maybe." i reply. then i think of something. "Remember, a dreamer's time in the dream is limited." I try to lengthen the dream through meditating with reverse blinking for a few seconds. i'm somewhat confident that will let me stay in the dream longer. my friend's annoying little sisters are now in the field, practicing the flying technique without any results. i wake up shortly afterwards.

i wonder if that Clint guy is a fraud or was warming up or what, but next time i'm gonna explore around and look for a flying expert. he seemed kinda evil, and i wonder what caused him to mention the Flood? i know he was talking about the flood from halo. too much halo lately i guess. :P

the castle had a LOT of spires, like every tower had one. it was held up by a huge rectangular black stone pillar.

Is someone still updating this after Yoshi left?

I definitely want to take part in this, it's an awesome idea!

I really like the first picture of it too, with the gigantic bed/mountain thing in front of the castle :)

I tried finding the castle the other night in a lucid dream, with no luck. :^(

Finally got a chance to explore the grounds at the Academy! :woohoo:
Unfortunately, there is a lot that I don't remember, but I'm still pretty stoked about it. :cooler:

Spoiler for Kinda Long:

10/16/2011
"First Night at Dream World Academy"
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(Ironically, I had almost forgotten this dream, upon waking. I'd gotten sidetracked, and it wasn't until a good 20 minutes after fully waking up, that I remembered the experience. Unfortunately, sooo many of the details feel lost (:(), but what I retained still left me with a feeling of total accomplishment.)

I don't really remember anything that happened in the beginning of this dream, and my timeline is a little disjointed, but I will put it together the best I can remember. The earliest memory I have is of having just realized I was dreaming, and trying to fly, somewhere out in the woods at night. I was having a lot of trouble flying, and I seemed to just be sinking back to the ground with normal gravity, whenever I tired to take off. I don't remember the point at which I actually was able to take control of my flight, but I was soon zooming out toward the coastline, having remembered my intention to try to find the Academy. The last few times that I had been searching for it, it was always on the water, so I figured the best way to find it was to just fly out over the ocean and will it to be there.

I overshot the shoreline, without pause, and continued out toward the dark horizon. The sky was this eerily-beautiful canvas of black, dark blue and purple, with the lightest colors having been pushed back beyond the coastline I was leaving; the last rays of setting sunlight behind me as I continued flying into the void, a few dozen feet above the water. The further out to sea I flew, though, the more uncomfortable I got. I could see that this deep, featurless, dark purple backdrop was beginning to project some detail in the sky. I could now see, thick, individual whisps of soft, purple/gray storm clouds, where there had once seemed to be none. (With my speed and low altitude, it felt a lot like the scene in Superman Returns, when he's flying out toward the kryptonite reef.) By this time, the sky was looking even more and more ominous, and I couldn't shake the foreboding notion that I was flying into something sinister. The puffy purple clouds - still barely visible against the dark backdrop - were beginning to swirl, and I half expected to see funnel clouds spike downward from them. Just on the horizon, I could see sporadic flashes of lightning on the water. I didn't like this at all. It's not secret that I'm pretty apprehensive about being way out in open water, in my dreams - because of my constant run-ins with sea monsters - and I realized that I was now out in the middle of nowhere, with no Academy in sight. More than a little intimidated by my new surroundings, I decided to turn around and fly back to the shore. (I have to go over the St. John's River Bridge, every night on my way home, and we've been having some pretty amazing-looking thunderstorms and cloud cover out here, lately. I'm thinking it might have been where the intense storm imagery over the water came from.)

Soon back on land, I began to think of other ways to find the Academy, and I remembered about the portals. At first, I looked around for any of the puddle / water-hole type puddles I had been using in previous dreams. When I didn't find any, immediately, I thought about doors. I began wandering around, going through various doorways and trying to 'will' myself into the Academy. Behind one door, in particular, I walked into the setting of a previous dream from over a year ago. It was a theme park that some friends and I had gone to for a Halloween Horror Nights type of occassion. The room that I had walked into was the lobby of one of their haunted houses. I remembered previous dream and that it had been pretty creepy, so I really didn't have any desire to stay here. When I turned around, though, the door that I had come through was gone, and I was standing in the middle of the haunted house lobby, with no sign of the wall that had just been behind me. A little uneasy about this - trying not to get distracted from my mission - I searched around for another door, spotting a little service door in the corner of the lobby. I walked over to the door and opened it...only to find another door, behind it. Behind that one, was another. I was beginning to get a little fed up with this.

I closed the door and focused on changing what was behind it. When I opened it again, the other door had vanished, and there was a dark, stone hallway, leading off into the distance. There was a soft light inside the corridor, but I don't recall what from. Stepping further into the hallway, I saw an opening on the other side, leading out into the night. When I stepped through the archway, I found myself outside, on the water, as if I had stepped out onto a concrete dock. I walked out away from the archway a bit and turned around, to get a good look at the structure from which I'd just emerged. It was a monstrous, stone building. It seemed a series a buildings, really, comprised of high towers and ramparts, various points in the seemingly-mideval architecture connected by high walkways and bridges. It looked like a great, dark castle, from down here. Immediately, I knew where I was; I had finally made it to the Dream World Academy! I walked along the narrow dock for a moment, looking for a main entrance. It was still nighttime, and it didn't look like there was much more than the moon lighting the outside of this place. Eventually, I came to a turn-off, and rounded it to see a gigantic stairway, comprised of what looked to be hundreds of steps, ascending toward a large set of double doors at the front of the Academy.

I started climbing the stairs, taking in the spectacle, and just now beginning to notice that there were other people milling about the outside of the building. Everyone seemed to just be doing their own thing, and not paying any particular attention to me, which was fine, because I really didn't want to disturb too much, my first time here. I just continued to watch everyone, while I walked up toward the doorway. About halfway up, I passed a small group of people on the stairway. It looked as if they were practicing magic or something, but I don't quite recall. When I got to the large doors, I stepped inside and into a main lobby. Inside the Academy was nearly as dark as the outside; the soft glow of a few, scattered torches fighting against the cool blue of the moonlight coming in through the windows and portals around us, for possession of the black shadows which still dominated the majority of the what could have been adequetely called a 'Great Hall' of sorts. The whole place had a very Harry Potter / Hogwarts kind of feel, outside of being quite dark and having a very 'pre-electricity' atmosphere.

Unfortunately, there is a lot beyond this point that I don't remember. Nothing too noteworthy, that I can recall. I vaguely remember just wandering the halls, talking to a couple of various DC's about the school, most of which were just practicing a few general abilities, here and there. I remember a portly old bald man being one of the instructors there, but I don't recall very much about him. The last memory I have of the dream is being out near the water again and trying to run back over the events in the dream, as a normally do, to try to help remember them upon waking.

Greetings LD'ers I am soo happy to have found this community, thank you!

(Apologies this is long but I try to keep as much detail as possible for my newfound addiction!)

The other night I had several LD's in succession the most interesting was a dream where I was VERY lucid but chose not to summon or try to transport but to follow the lead of 2 people I met at the beginning of this LD (as far as I can remember- the beginning.

I hope this can be considered for the castle project because this is exactly what I was thinking during this LD, I was like, "the dream castle to me is a 70's style recessed (from the street) unmarked building with huge amounts of LD files and a bunch of cubicles with LD case workers, and restroom doors that open to nothingness? Seriously? Seemed like a goverment run beuracratic LD castle". lol

LD: I was outside of an older office building (Castle?) with no markings on it when I ran into two DC's that seemed lucid and we began talking about increasing lucidity and RC's (I am brand new to all of this and have only read a little on here) I proceeded to follow them, at their behest into the LD office (Castle?) where LD assignments were given out and explained, one of the DC's (female) was guiding myself and another DC (Male) down a long concrete hallway with stucco on a small retaining wall on one side, I was dragging my hand along the stucco as a RC and saying "increase lucidity!" when the other guy asked me if that is how to stay lucid- I explained it to him so we were both doing this as we walked.

We went past a HUGE bunch of filing cabinets to a set of cubicles where the 3 of us sat down and spoke with a woman who laid out LD assignments to us as a team, she was an impressive Hispanic woman who seemed to be like a case worker of sorts for this very secretive type of business (seemed like it was goverment backed LD Castle based on the outdated office set-up and paint.

The mission was for us to intercept 2 "spirits" that were causing trouble in the LD world and for some reason destroying crops in the real world. It became very strange as I was very lucid but not able to control these spirits or summon anything to aid in this assignment- shortly after this it blurred and blackedout and was gone, but this office with the social worker type of person assembling teams and handing out LD missions was fascinating! I hope this can somehow be included in the dream castle because the covert location and a couple of restroom doors that went NOWHERE reminded me of the castle and it's unique qualities.

Thanks folks! I will try my best to get back to "the castle, or find other castles in case I am in the wrong part of the dream world.

Guys, I had an odd encounter which I think may be the Dream World Academy. It just entered my non-lucid dream. You can read about the dream here Game Shows and Time Castles - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

This is an odd variation of the academy though. At first glance it looks like a normal stone castle, but that's only its present state. This academy has the ability to travel through time to the past and future. If you go to the past you'll see where construction on the had just began. A small camp in the middle of a large forest. However, if you go to the future, you'll find that the stone castle has entirely evolved. The stone castle becomes a huge mechanical metropolis with flashing lights, electronics, and robots everywhere.

So, why do I think this time traveling castle is a clone of the fabled dream world academy? Well, it just entered my dream, completely out of context with the situation I was in. Kind of like a message, trying to tell me that I was dreaming.

Went to the academy last night. It was underground, but I only got to floor B1. All of the magic classes, etc. were on the floors below.

Trip to the Dream World Academy - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Are many people still interested in this?
I'm still trying to get to the academy. I think I've gotten close, but no real success. Not sure why it's so difficult. I've had dreams where I'm in some kind of magic school before. Maybe I should send in an application.

I'm still interested. I thought there were some plans to get the academy stuff started up again, but I'm not sure where I heard that. I hope so, since this hasn't really been updated in a long time.

We'll see what happens in the future ;)

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Originally Posted by Matte87

We'll see what happens in the future ;)

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Oooh, that sounds promising. :D

I almost got there again the night before last. It was across the lake again and after I got in the boat I woke up. This time the castle took on the appearance of the Disneyland castle in California.

This is the third time I have went looking and found the dream DVA, but I have yet to enter :(

DG:jester:

Almost walked though the doors this time.

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DG:jester:

I haven't read anyone's experiences yet, as I wanted to find the castle first without any preconceptions.
I found it last night so I now look forward to reading the rest of the story! :D

DJ entry: First Visit to the Dream World Academy [Lucid] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for First Visit to the Dream World Academy:

I became lucid again and decided to search for the Dream World Academy. Upon choosing to do so, the room split in two and a wind tunnel lifted me up to the clouds. There was a toilet block with three doors (male, female, and disabled.) At first I wondered if it was a decoy or some sort of test to see if I would think outside the box. But I decided to try my luck and opened the female door. Despite being in the sky, when I looked through the door, I saw a grassy field with a building in the distance. I figured this was the back of the Academy grounds. There was a lot of playground equipment on the grass that reminded me of a primary school. There was a swing set to my left, some parallel bars and climbing equipment to my right, and further ahead there was a larger playground made of red and yellow plastic. North West of the playgrounds, there were some open classrooms with glass windows. There were students hanging about in a few of the classrooms, but I noticed a lecture taking place in the third classroom along, so I decided to join the lesson. The environment was very casual. The teacher was sitting on a desk in the middle of the classroom, and the students were gathered around, sitting or leaning on the surrounding objects. The room was laid out like a regular school classroom, except the edges of the room had large carpeted steps forming a sort of amphitheatre, making the room a lot larger than it had seemed from the outside. The teacher was a man in his 20’s with a kind face... he reminded me of the ‘cool’ gym teacher who students always considered more of a friend than an authority figure. There were about 15 students of various ages, both kids and adults. None of them seemed to mind (or even notice) when I entered the classroom.
I can’t remember exactly what the lesson was about. I remember finding it useful at the time, and I wrote it down in great detail during a false awakening, but then I had a non-lucid dream before actually waking up... So my memory of the lesson has merged with that, and now involves stuff about milk cartons, condoms and the children of famous wrestlers.
There was another room - I’m not sure how I got there - where a performance was taking place. It was a much larger room with ascending rows of seats. The room was almost full and there seemed to be a lot of posh upper-class people in the audience. The first entertainer was a guy doing stunts atop a pyramid of full beer glasses, with the help of some other dancers/acrobats. The next act was hairdressers on roller-skates... They asked for audience volunteers, who were then seated on roller-toboggans. The hairdressers began figure skating and pushing the toboggans around train tracks and through tunnels, colouring the volunteers hair as they went (it was kind of like a quick-change act.) Finally, there was an orchestra who played a classical version of a Bomfunk MCs song from the 90’s called ‘Uprocking Beats’. I loved the randomness of it all, but the atmosphere was a bit awkward. It almost seemed like the performers were the dreamers, and the audience members were some higher class of beings who were judging the performers and laughing at their little monkey entertainers. I got an uncomfortable feeling that some performers were being sexually objectified as well - being made to wear very skimpy clothing and possibly also expected to “entertain” the higher class when they demanded.

Second visit to the Academy on 29th September! :D

DJ Entry: Dream World Academy #2 [Lucid, Task of the Month] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for Second Visit:

I became lucid during a nightmare in a castle. I started to fly away, but then I realised that it might have been the Dream World Academy. I turned back and flew towards the most central room in the main tower. I walked through a white tiled foyer towards some large red curtains, which were closed. I pulled them open and found myself at the back of a huge theatre, where a lesson was taking place. I found a seat somewhere in the middle of the room before realising that I was in the wrong class. I think the lesson was about art or dance. I asked the nearest students where the Dream World Academy was, and they pointed me in the right direction.
I flew to the highest point of the castle, which had a colourful painting hanging outside. I flew through it and revealed a new castle exterior, with a giant book resting on the rooftop. I opened it and saw a musical keyboard with light-up keys. I played a tune and looked around. Two objects had appeared on the roof, disguised as building decorations – a wand and a sonic screwdriver. I detached both from the roof and flew to the left side of the castle, where I could see a green wooden door in the distance. The door was only half the size of a cat flap, but I pointed the sonic screwdriver towards it as I approached, and it grew to my height by the time I arrived.
I walked into the room, which was another theatre, but this time I entered from the front/stage side. The theatre was empty except for the first 3 rows, where 10-15 students were sitting in the middle few seats. There was a teacher at the front – a middle aged woman with short, maroon-coloured hair and a strong build. She looked quite intimidating. I took a seat on the left side of the front row. The lesson began, and the teacher asked if everyone could hear her. She was intentionally speaking very softly so everyone would have to pay more attention. I had to strain to hear her, so I moved to a spare seat in the middle while she was talking. She said, “Are you ’right, Dreamer?” in an effort to show me that she knew exactly who I was without even meeting me. The other students were taking turns introducing themselves to the class. The first few were children from the same family, who each introduced themselves with 2 different surnames. They explained that they used to have a different surname before their father went to jail. They said their mother was now rich and was looking for a new house to buy, which they would all live in together when their father got out of prison. Suddenly, the teacher ‘banished’ the family by making them disappear. She explained they had spoken about a forbidden topic – the 7 dragons of the seas surrounding the Dream World Academy (apparently their new surname was the name of one of the dragons.) I was surprised that the teacher then went on to actually teach the class about the dragons. She had a slide show in the background as she named each of the 7 dragons. I can’t remember the names, but I know they were in a mystical language... I remember one name meant ‘Forager’ and one was a variant of the word ‘Storm’. For some reason, the teacher looked directly at me and said, “The dragons are a physicists’ worst nightmare,” and explained something about the dragons not living entirely within the physical realm, therefore they don’t obey the laws of physics. The teacher seemed to have a problem with me, so I decided to leave at the next opportunity. I started walking out and the teacher got a bit angry, but I just said, “I have to do the Tasks of the Month!” and ran out the door.

Nice Dreamer! I'll be updating the threads tomorrow and I'll include some stuff from your dream. The dragons sound interesting. I think I'll incorporate them into DWA episodes in the future. Keep dreaming!