Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

1. What did you learn from the experience of meeting yourself?
2. What do you think your subconscious was trying to tell you?
I guess we are ALL our own worst enemies.
This is something that I'm way too familiar with in my dreamscape. It could be a good example of speaking to your subconscious. I hope it solved your inner issues? If not, don't stop talking your subconscious, ask questions, problem-solve.

Rant: This forum became very silient recently, when login there are always zero members online, is it dying or everybody know something that I don't? No new post either!

There are a bunch of us on Discord. I've been sick and busy. Sprain Ankle and other boring stuff that I would not bore you guys with.

Originally Posted by StarSeeker

Rant: This forum became very silient recently, when login there are always zero members online, is it dying or everybody know something that I don't? No new post either!

Starseeker: Perhaps, I'll ask myself in one of my future dreams to why it keeps happening and I'll try to get back to you??

Originally Posted by Lang

There are a bunch of us on Discord. I've been sick and busy. Sprain Ankle and other boring stuff that I would not bore you guys with.

So DV is dead, long live the Discord!

Starseeker: Perhaps, I'll ask myself in one of my future dreams to why it keeps happening and I'll try to get back to you??

Lang:I see you has been sarcastic, why even bother responding at all ??? And what about with that meme "Living with Yourself"??

Touchy... Nevermind.

Anyways, I had a third-grade Sprain Ankle. Spent a few days in the hospital. Not that anyone would care. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm FINE!

No, I'm fine. I mean I didn't really want to say anything because I didn't want people to worry about me. And since people have more serious stuff in their lives more than my stupid-self. I'm more worried about family members right now, anyways.
Although, if anyone has a hacksaw, by all means, saw away- saw away.
Anyways, I had a dream, last night about that there was the return of a Mad Scientist. At first, he said he changed and I sort of thought, okay, maybe he has a changed for the better and he was at peace of himself but, I quickly realized that no one truly changes. He tried killing me with his eliminator ray. At one point, he missed me and hit one of his workers. The worker was reduced to ashes. A long story short, I confused him enough to make him break his own invention by asking him all kinds of questions. Then I knocked him out cold. The whole dream seemed very cartoonish...

Huh... did StarSeeker just get banned?

Originally Posted by Emerald Wolf

Huh... did StarSeeker just get banned?

For a reason unrelated to this thread, yes. I don't have a problem with people saying the forum is dead (it might sting a little, considering I've been part of this community for so long, but I'll live). I do have a problem with previously banned members using alternate accounts to stir up trouble.

Forums aren't as popular as they used to be, but we've adapted with the Discord and are still actively having discussions in there. I'm still holding out hope that I'll have enough time and energy in the future to give the whole site a more modern revamp, but until then we're still rolling with the punches and doing what we can.

Originally Posted by Erii

its me again, i dunno if anyone active remembers me. I'm always still amazed this thread is still goin on. I miss being connected myself or others. I hope everything is going well for everyone. Life is pretty unfair these days

Hi Erii, you still around?

Sounds like you encountered a version of what Jung would refer to as your Shadow, and you responded to the encounter "correctly" by embracing your shadow despite all its flaws. It dissolving into mist in your embrace (then shortly followed by you) was it being re-integrated into your psyche. Your dream world has probably become a better place because this was a vital step toward self-actualization and becoming a more well-rounded, mentally healthy individual.

Few people get to literally embrace their shadow and re-integrate it into their psyche, usually it's a more abstract, conscientious mental process. Good job.

I kind of like posting here specifically because forums our outdated. It gives me a sense of nostalgia and community - makes it seem more special.

I want at some point to rant about why it is that people consider forums to be outdated and what it means for people to be part of a community, though I still need to mull things over in my mind a bit.
For now I'll just say that I hate that progress means constantly having to adapt to new ways of doing things simply because they are new without regard for whether they work better.

Wait... Discord? I will have to check it out.
I hope your foot is completely (or close to completely) better at this point. Sounds miserable!!

I've been spending a ridiculous amount of time with my typology (chat) community. If I'm at home, I'm pretty much always signed in rofl. I even fall asleep, most nights, in the room
The rooms are pretty nice, but can only host 12 people at a time unless you buy some premium package. (https://whereby.com/twfp/2). Then again, this has been my only exposure to such things rofl.

Life is still stagnant right now. We're waiting for the last of the auction people to finish up the week of the ninth and then we'll start REALLY tackling the house. Bah!
I still haven't found a place to live. I need to just reach out to a Realtor and be done with Zillow. No one ever calls me back (well, one person did, but that's it).
Half the time, it feels like I'll never be relocated :/

I've definitely dreamed like that before. However, the Original Poster has a long way to go, with his dream world and reality.

Still here and still on crutches, Pain is there, The crutches can only take me so far... I don't want just feel useless, you know? I was probably would have been better off breaking it. I have no voice... I lost my voice.
Latest dreams that I've posted.

Non-Lucid: Had a dream that I had just found out that I was the newly elected President. I was myself in the dream, I think? Apparently, I was at the front stairs of my house. It felt like it was November... It has actually kind of cold here in real life. I could smell the crisp in the air. I was surrounded by a lot of people, family, friends, and some voters.

I got a call saying that my secret service detail wanted to meet me because I'm the new President and they need to talk to me about somethings. At one point, I remember that I dropped my Cellphone onto some Medium Round Bentwood things.

I remember feeling the anxiety bubbling up and through-out my body. It was taking me a while to process the whole thing. It felt so surreal. I tried to keep my composure but, it was so hard.

I mean when I was in high school, in real life, I was the Vice President of the Student Government then I was eventually was the President at school. Although, that felt like I was just a figurehead with less power to help the student body in real life. Maybe I didn't want to feel abandoned.

I went to my garage and got into the secret service van and I remember saying something like, "The health care is such a mess, the world is a mess and I don't want to let down the people." I remember the feeling sort of regret? I wanted to cry a little. You know that feeling where you don't want to let your voters down. All of sudden, I felt a bit overwhelmed, Royal, yet, glad, in the dream. The world is counting on me to do the right thing. How am I going to do this in a diplomatic way without causing war? I tried to I keep my game face on so well, but, it was hard.

The head lady who was a big lady gave me two Pills, Red and Blue. Note: I never watch the movie "The Matrix" so I really don't know much about "The Matrix" pills. Then I remember that I took the Red pill. Then I felt drowsy as the person who gave me the pills said that they gave these pills to every newly elected President.

Then they someone offered to clean my house. Then they brought me, I mean carried me back into the house. I sort of can make out that someone said like, "Welcome to your new life!!" Or "Meet the new and approved you." I'm not sure.
Then they put me on a white Cleopatra sofa and then everything went blank.

Then I woke up. what do you think??

It's been a few years....I wasn't on here for long but I did lurk. I'm glad this forum is still pretty active More than most for sure. I still feel the forum format is the best for in depth conversation. Infinite scroll kinda keeps things perpetually superficial I feel. Forums seem more like....libraries.

I wish the podcast was still a thing. I'm glad it happened though and I still listen to episodes once in a while.

Welcome back!! Yeah, I don't really mind the quietness of the forum, either. I think people get upset that their threads would never be answered or that they feel like they are being ignored.
I think that some people may have a high expectation for their threads and then it doesn't go as planned. Then they get mad because of it. In result, they either leave or complain that the forum is dead or something like that. People have busy lives, lose interests, it happens to every forum at one point or another.
But, hell, what do I know?

Originally Posted by spellbee2

Forums aren't as popular as they used to be, but we've adapted with the Discord and are still actively having discussions in there. I'm still holding out hope that I'll have enough time and energy in the future to give the whole site a more modern revamp, but until then we're still rolling with the punches and doing what we can.

Has anybody considered developing a DV app, if there isn't one already? Perhaps if people interested in lucid dreaming had a DV app to download onto their mobile devices, they'd be more likely to come here for lucid discussion than for example, the r/luciddreaming subreddit.. It seems like a very difficult task to build a functioning online community these days (or in these case revive one.) It seems the entire internet is slowly but surely evolving to be a very centralised information system, many people don't venture off the main social media/video and photo sharing sites. I.e. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, etc. This makes me kind of sad, because all of my fondest memories of socialising on the internet come from smaller communities such as DreamViews. Thank you for putting your heart into this community spellbee, I may not have the time to come around as I used to but this place will always hold a special place in my heart. Peace and love.



EDIT: Wow I just saw Lang's post about their recovering from an injury! I hope you are back to 100% very soon, recovering from any sort of injury is no fun!

Originally Posted by mooseantlers

EDIT: Wow I just saw Lang's post about their recovering from an injury! I hope you are back to 100% very soon, recovering from any sort of injury is no fun!

Thank you, Mooseantlers!! I appreciate it...

Wow! Great dream! Love the part about every new president is given those pills. Seems symbolic for all the secret stuff every president finds out about once they're elected, that then effects how they handle things. They end up doing things they didn't realize they'd have to do.

Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it.

"she said that their leader was running the town"

Yeah, that's about right for Hong Kong.

It seems to me that if you want to understand the metaphor in the dream, you'd do better not trying to control it so much, and let the story form more completely without your interference.

Clearly the girl and the sorcerer are at least in some sense a part of yourself. If you push the development and exercise of your will and your mythic intuition too hard, it forces a part of yourself into a more dragon-like state. There's a good side to that, but a bad side also, and the bad side is driven in part by the over-reach. Use of hallucinogenic drugs would be an example of that - it seems to me that it always leads to this kind of difficult ambivalence. Pushing too hard to understand things can do that also. I think that aspiration is a good thing, but patience is also required to avoid creating these kinds of conflicts to an unhelpful extent.

I hope that is at least a little on target.

I think everyone has that a good side and a bad side in their lives. Ying/Yang?