Thread: A challenge from a friend. Maybe a few for you guys too?

*its long but bear with me ;D*

Well, hello again. Been a while since my last post but I've just finished my A levels and spent all summer organising the details for when I start Uni.
However during this time there has been an understandably copious amount of celebratory drinkeling sessions and bbq's and what better topics to discuss while you are in a less than average state of awareness than all the deep things like life, the universe...and lucid dreaming. I had to share this particular experience with you guys.

One night out I was sat in a bar with a few of my mates when one of them started describing how he was getting sleep paralysis in the mornings. He'd never heard of it before but was interested in hearing more. The conversation eventually turned to lucid dreaming and those of us there who had experienced them relayed experiences to everyone. One of my friends, quite an accomplished lucid dreamer, started quizzing me on comic book heroes what powers I had manage to use....I explained that I had tried pretty much everything I could think of, but that I was open to any more suggestions or challenges.
Straight away he asked if I'd tried being Sandman. Nope. okay so that was my challenge. I didn't see him for the next few nights - during which I spent my whole time on a beach practising (dream-beach obviously). I finally got the hang of it and reported back a couple of days later. His response was "Well done. Now then what about x-ray vision?".
I went away and practised that (Up until that point if I had wanted to see through walls I had just walked through them).
Came back: "Well done. So, can you split into more than one of yourself?" Ok, I was getting pretty frustrated that he could think of all these things I hadn't thought of, but I was enjoying trying them all out. Once I had finished learning that little trick (incidentally I could only manage 3 other mes, so four in total, before It got to complex and I couldn't hold onto the dreams) I text my friend and he congratulated me but warned that he'd have a challenge for me the next time he saw me.

That night I dreamt I was at a house party - the next place I was set to meet my friend. I realised it was a dream pretty early on when the house unexplainably had a pool, but my friend was still there and he approached me anyway:

"So?" He said "You think you've mastered most of the powers now?"
I was still thinking if I had missed any others.
"Are you ready for this one?"
I obliged.
"Right...How many different characters can you imitate in this ONE dream, without waking up and using as many of their powers as possible?" (There's the main challange I want to set you ;D)

That was the best dream I have had in ages. I started cycling through every character I could think of and, where necessary, fended off a wave or two of attackers. For example during my brief spate as the Hulk I really wanted to do that scene from the film where he swings the tank round by the barrel. Conveniently a tank rolled down the street and the act was performed.

I was every single Marvel charater that I could think of (beleive me that's a lot). My only problem really arose when trying to be Galactus. I couldn't really feed of the planet while everyone else was at this awsome party...that would just be such a buzz-kill. So I resolved to just be a scaled down version and did a running bomb into the pool. Which in retrospect would probably have ruined the party as well since water went everywhere, apart from back into the pool.

Anyhoo...that's about it. Finally.

Anyone feel up to the challenge? Believe me its good fun.


PS. I don't know what my real next challange is from my friend since I still haven't seen him yet. However if it is worth telling you about then I will add it to this thread.