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I'm definitely in. This sounds like my kinda adventure. :ninja:
Great idea, conisag!
I don't know if you should make it so detailed (as far as weather, how the locks on the doors look, things like that...), though, because it's doubtful that these things will all stay static in every dreamer's mind. I think leaving things like that open to interpretation will give the island a more haunting and surreal aspect to it, in that things can change at a moment's notice. Just a thought. :wink:
But as far as creatures we will likely see and key buildings and landmarks and whatnot, keep them coming. The more atmosphere we have, the better. :goodjob2:
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Ok, so here is a little project that might help some of you bring this island to life (especially those with vivid imaginations and visualization):
I created a folder in my PC and dumped a bunch of google images into it - pictures of people, places and things that I might expect to see when stranded on a mystical dream/nightmare island. Before going to bed, whenever I'd like to try the game, I'd set my screensaver to sift through the folder, posting pictures from that folder, at random, on my screen. I set them to stay up on the screen for at least 30 seconds. While laying down (I usually leave my PC on overnight. Not sure how many others of you do) I'll drift off to sleep while watching the pictures and visualizing them as being parts of the dream setting I'm trying to incubate - The Island. As an added touch, I'll let me media player loop some of those relaxing sounds of the jungle and rainforest, through the night. Together, they create a really awesome setting to fall asleep. While watching and listening, I set the intention to dream about the island settings, and to realize my dream state when I find myself in these places.
The pictures that cycle across my screen (many of them are taken from Hi-Def games like Crysis, Bioshock, and the Myst and Elder Scrolls series', as well as some real-world pics) range from:
Outside atmospheres:
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Building interiors:
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Weapons:
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Some possible enemies and creatures I might stumble upon:
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And, of course, some native allys that I might...*cough*..."encounter." :wink: :
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In all, I have just over 200 pics in that folder, all with a real "mystic jungle" type feel to them. I tried this out last night and was able to incubate an island atmosphere in part of my dream, but it looked more like a low-graphics video game than the realism I'd like. It also didn't have much to do with the LucidRage Island, and I had no lucidity, but it's a start. :cooler:
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Not to be a wiseass, but "rpg game" means "role playing game game".
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Hahaha. Yeah, I thought about that, too. Conisag, you might want to edit the topic title. If you can't, or need some help, let me know.
Anyway, here is last night's attempt to get into LucidRage:
09/20/2007
"Failed Trip to LucidRage"
I'd gone to sleep set-up for an attempt to visit Conisag's LucidRage Island. I was focusing on the pictures on my screen while my eyes got heavy, listening to the nocturnal sounds of the jungle.
Once I started dreaming, I could see the jungle, and the various shots of the island setting that I'd put up as an outline for LucidRage. The pictures, though, were actually moving as if they were in real life. I was as a disembodied spirit just watching these different shots from various parts of "the Island" (shots that are, again, made up of many different pictures from different settings), and the trees were swaying, the water was actually waving in the oceans. On some of the pictures, I have characters that I might find on LucidRage and some of these characters were present in the dream, actually moving around their scenes as if they were really there. Even though I could see them, I could feel my dettachment from the scenes. These images were more hypnogogic imagery, I believe, than actual dreams in deep sleep.
Sooner or later, I "woke up" in a false awakening. I actually had no idea I had fallen asleep because it felt like I was still laying down, trying to doze off. What got me up was the fact that, everytime I would try to go to sleep, I would feel this rocking sensation, like I just couldn't sit still, and my body was rocking involuntarily. No matter what position I moved in, after I'd gotten still I would still feel like I was rocking back and forth. Finally, it got so annoying that I got up and went to the computer. It was still dark out and the only light was coming from the monitor.
I can't remember what exactly it was that tipped me off, but I started to suspect that I was still asleep. I looked across my desk and had a pile of paper stacked up on it. Focusing a little bit, I was able to lift one of the pages into the air with my mind. Finally I realized I was dreaming. The very first thing I did was look at my hands, to try to buy myself a little more "lucid time" and stabilize the dream. My fingers were really wrinkled, and my middle finger was extremely wide, around the tip. It stuck out from the sides like the eyes of a hammerhead shark. I immediately thought about the LucidRage Island, and started plotting out how I was going to get there (which is probably something I should have done while I was awake :rolleyes:) Standing in the middle of the room, I tried spinning. I spun around in place, thinking of one of the photos I'd picked as the inside of the mansion that Conisag said was on the island. I could barely see it, between the blurs of my rotation, but it just wasn't coming in clear at all. Finally, fearing waking up, I stopped spinning and thought of something else.
I walked over to my bed and jumped up on it. I kept feeling myself wobble like I couldn't stand up straight. Trying to ignore it, I jumped up and tried to phase through the ceiling and directly into the LucidRage Island scene. I couldn't get through the ceiling, though, and just got a bunch of "static" like when you get stuck in a wall on a video game, and the image on the screen just jumped over and over. Finally, I stopped trying, and landed on my bed again. I stepped down off the bed and then walked toward my room door. (Obviously I had completely forgotten that the LucidRage game is supposed to start at a pier at the front of the island, and was just trying to show up inside of the mansion that is on the Island.) I visualized the mansion room that I had in mind, and tried to make it appear on the other side of the door. When I opened the door, I had just started to see the room that I was trying for. I could see the desk and the windows with the jungle behind it (it's actually This picture). But, the more I opened the door, the more out of focus the room became. The dream was beginning to unravel itself (probably because I was getting too excited). By the time I started trying to get control, it was too far gone, and completely vanished.
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being m ego pimped by the recent events.......
i'll remotely start thinking about it
it also look similar to the setting of a old d&d adventure i had (with a veeeery good master), so i think you'll have an halfling ( :shock: )
like, this is like d&d with the best graphic EVER
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ah man this is such a great Idea....man im gonna have to try to remember this lol!!
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This is an excellent concept. I've always been fascinated with the scenery from RPGs.
I can't wait to get back into lucid dreaming and try this out.
Conisag, the website you gave us has not been activated.
Take your time and make it spectacular. :boogie:
Please, take your time.
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I had a hell of a time trying to get the Island, last night, but it made for one fuckin great adventure! It was long as hell, though, because the search for it spanned over the length of 4 LD's. :shock:
Trying to get to the island and failing, throughout 4 LD's is kind of disheartening, though, let me tell you. :(
The post is probably too long to ugly up this thread with, but Here is the journal entry, for those that would like to read it.
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As is said to you on pm well done matey!
You will get there and ill put toghther a map to get there jsut for you special like: lol
you should find it really easy but stress will throw you off it just daydream about the island or watch a scary movie and afterwards imagine the island and its atmosphere.
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Ive done it ive been to LucidRage and what a flipping place! its beautiful i could last very long down to the actual physical fear but wow!!!
Okay so here goes Im dreaming and become lucid but i didnt even reality check i just said outload i must be dreaming,I decid to go to lucidrage island and walk outside what was my old school (i finished school 2 years ago and work) and there was a sea and a boat ready to take me there, "okay i thought"i remembered other peoples failed attempts and thought its because they always say they "attempt" to get to LRI so i simply said im going there and thats final i got there extremely quick almost like a flash and the guy had changed from a small black guy to a big white guy-(weird)
He then said it what sounded like a puerto rican voice- you get off here. i got onto the peer which seemed extremely weathered and began walking down to the shoor(spelling?)
and i then get onto the ebach, have you ever fell off your bike and hit your head real hard? and thres a funny smell/fuzzy feeling in your nose? the air was thick with that smell like pain/hurt had been going on i eventually starting shaking and becoming really unerved looking forward into the forest infront of me i dint move off the beach for what felt like 20minutes then when i began making my way in i started to blur and it felt like i was falling and i woke up.
!!!!!!Damn that was crazy!!!!!!!!! ive had plenty of lucids but this place the atmosphere i had consciously built up made it so awesome in my dream, has anyone else got there yet?
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I need weapons god damn it! i cant go in there without anything.
not to self in future leave beach as it is only a dream DONT BE A PUSSY.
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B-U-M-P lol!:banana::bowdown::boogie:
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Bump!! Also like to say how unique this sounds,
I'm gonna give it a try as soon as i manage to create a Snowy-Twister in a grassy field.
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Awesome if you win first you get a medal to put in your sig.
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Yeah this sounds great! I agree with Onierionaut tho, I think small details should be left up to the dreamer, I think it should stay pretty simple. But It's your idea so whatever do what the hell you want with it.
Great idea.
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anyone else been there yet?
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you know there's a game released called Lucidrage... just google it!
maybe that will help people get on the right track :)
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dang this sounds awesome ill have to try it. but how come the website u gave us isnt working?
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this sounds really kick@$$. too bad i haven't had a LD yet...maybe this will help.
am i the only one who cant get to the website? :confused:
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Getting the scene right seems tougher than fighting the monsters :?
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I will give this a try if i ever have enough control in my dreams to change my enviroment.
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This sounds like a really great way to increase your abilities :banana:
I have to try this next lucid
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lol sounds fun, but since i just starting lucid dreaming 2 months ago my LD varies, ill try your game if i can
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SUPER BUMP!!! (3 months worth, lol) This thread's too fun to die!
Anyway, this is awesome, I'm goin for it. And, like the others said, the website's not workin'...
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Yes, this thread needed a bump! I was sad to see it was dead when I was linked to it.
I'll definetly go there once I get better at getting lucid :)
