"Gun Kata"

[Oneironaut Zero]

My best experience with bullet-dodging, so far. Excerpt from Dream Journal: 10/11/2007 Dream One: (pt 2) "Gun Kata" I was upstairs in the girl's two-story apartment. Walking down the hallway, toward her stair case, I suddenly stopped and wondered how I'd gotten there. I looked around and wondered if this was a dream but (even after waking up from a long period of sleep, and going back to sleep) everything was just so vivid. So solid. I looked down at my hands, and they looked just fine. I felt the banister, and it was just as solid as anything I've ever felt. I thought about jumping down the stairs, but figured that wouldn't be the best idea, until I was sure. Then, I tried something that I dont' think I've ever tried before, the nose-plug RC. I plugged my nose and inhaled. To my surprise, I could breathe! I thought I'd done something wrong, and maybe didn't fully cover my nostrils, so I squeezed my nose even harder, and inhaled. It was like my hand wasn't even there. I was definitely dreaming. I went to the top stair and jumped off of it, trying to clear all the stairs at once. When I landed, everything was still so damned vivid, that it actually hurt a little bit, and I stumbled and nearly fell to the ground, but I realized that, had this been waking life, I would have seriously injured myself, so I was even more sure I was dreaming. I walked outside, and the same awesome car I had been driving in the first "half" of this dream was still in the parking lot, and there was a police car parked beside it. As I was getting in the car, the police radio sounded and I could hear dispatch say that there was some huge gang bust going down, and that all units needed to respond. Being lucid, I thought this sounded like fun. The cops hauled ass to this spot, and I was right there behind them. It was another apartment complex. (Why are there so many apartment complexes in my dreams?) I just followed them in, on foot, and we came upon a HUGE firefight in a courtyard. Everybody was dressed up in suits, and it was just a few cops vs. some upscale crime syndicate like the Yakuza. Everybody had automatic weapons, and it was just a crazy amount of gunfire all over the place. Without missing a beat, I took the side of the cops (they were seriously outnumbered), and walked into the middle of the battlefield. I can't even remember what I said to the gang, but I suddenly draw all of their fire on me. (This has to have been one of the coolest things I've done, while lucid, yet.) As all of these guns started shooting at me, I started spinning around and flailing my arms in a kung-fu motion, moving left right, up down, corkscrew flipping and ducking side to side, in rapid succession. While doing this, I tried to take my mind off of the bullets, and act like they weren't even there. The illusion created was that I dodged every single bullet that was shot at me, aside from one that I felt graze my hand but cause no pain. What I'd fallen into was an exaggeratedly-acrobatic version of UltraViolet's unarmed Gun Kata, and it was fucking awesome. Even though I was trying not to think about the bullets hitting me, I could hear them whizzing around my head, while I continued to move erratically, as fast as possible. At some point, someone started using a glowing disc as a weapon. They'd throw it at me and I would flip out of the way, and it would pretty much just ricochet all over the battlefield and kill a whole bunch of people, inadvertently. One thing that motivated me to keep moving was thinking of Spider-Man and the way he moves and the last thing I remember doing is jumping off of the ground, over the glowing disc, and landing, horizontally, on a wall, standing on it as if it were the ground and looking down at the body-littered battlefield, as the cops now had the advantage, and were taking out the last few of the gang memebers. Absolutely incredible experience. I woke up and it was daylight. I came to the PC to jot down some dream notes and decided to see if I could squeeze an extra hour or so of sleep in...

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Nice.

[KuRoSaKi]

Holy crap Oneiranaut that sounds so badass. You took the side of the cops killed a whole bunch of people, dodged a shit ton of bullets, acrobated over flying discs, got grazed and kept on shooting that would of made one hell of an action scene in a movie hahaha.

[mylucidworld]

Awesome lucid. I would love a lucid like this, and btw how nice of you to take the side of the cops.

[Oneironaut Zero]

Thanks, guys. Yeah, it was awesome. I didn't even pick up a gun, the whole time it was happening, I just moved around so much that everybody ended up pretty much killing themselves. Haha. And I'm never a villain in my dreams. I always side with the good guys.

[ouija]

GunKata... now there's an awesome idea!

[Noin]

Btw. ultraviolet's gun kata? BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA rofl i almost fell of my chair. The real gun kata takes place in Equilibrium...

[Oneironaut Zero]

Btw. ultraviolet's gun kata? BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA rofl i almost fell of my chair. The real gun kata takes place in Equilibrium... I know that. UltraViolet's Gun Kata, that I was referring to, is the one where she is unarmed, and flailing around like a maniac, like I was in my dream, not one of Preston's Gun Katas from Equilibrium. The art form is the same in both movies. They are both using Gun Kata, though the term, yes, is used in and originated from Equilibrium (that, and his are much more exciting to watch), but the one in my dream is more related to Violet's. So there. Lol.

[Universal Mind]

I think you have a movie title and a story. Gun Kata of the Oneironaut

[Xaqaria]

Gun kata is actually from Equilibrium which is much better than Ultraviolet. Same writer/directer, but in my opinion he did a shit job with Ultraviolet. And now I see that someone has already mentioned it.

[Adam]

Awesome dream man! Sounds fun!!

[Oneironaut Zero]

I'm guessing that there are a lot of people that didn't realize that UltraViolet uses Gun Kata, too, which is understandable, because they never actually mention the term in UltraViolet. But, for those that want to look it up: Excerpts In UltraViolet, a further, more aggressive development of this technique is seen displayed by Violet Song jat Shariff (portrayed by Milla Jovovich). When unarmed and surrounded by multiple firearm-wielding opponents, Violet's movements allow her to avoid the shots fired at her and simultaneously make the enemies shoot each other instead. Violet uses Gun Kata, a fictional martial art combining statistical analysis and gunplay, to fight many adversaries at the same time, even when vastly outnumbered. Kurt Wimmer also uses this style of fighting in his 2002 film Equilibrium. In the movie only Hemophages use Gun Kata, this follows Wimmers interpretation of the technique; In Equilibrium the Grammaton Clerics train from childhood to utilize the art. As the events of UltraViolet only span a single generation as opposed to the decades-stable post-apocalyptic society of Libria, it is possible that Hemophage reflexes and stamina are necessary to perform Violet's version of the techniques. While the scenes using Gun Kata are shorter than those in Equilibrium, critics have commented that the sequences appear more realistic and less mechanical than those used by Cleric John Preston. Other critics have taken issue with the editing, saying it damages the believability of the scenes. I guess the confusion came from my using the wording "UltraViolet's Gun Kata." I suppose it sounds like I'm saying that Gun Kata originated from UltraViolet. I was talking about the character, when saying UltraViolet's Gun Kata, not the movie title. But yes, everyone knows that the movie sucked hard. Universal Mind: Haha. Hmm. You might have something, there. Adam: Thanks, man. And fun is an understatement. It was bad as Hell! Heh.

[dodobird]

Remo Williams could also dodge bullets very well, but he's done that in pretty slow, though elegant moves.

[awoke]

haha, thats the business, man. good way to spend an hour a sleep.