Thread: Lucid rpg game!-LucidRage

yeah, this sounds fun. I'm totally going to do this!

I'm definitely in. This sounds like my kinda adventure.
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.

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.

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." :
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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.

Not to be a wiseass, but "rpg game" means "role playing game game".

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 ) 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.