You speak German?
Also, this might sounds stupid, but is Midnight Ramens a codename for something or is it actually just eating Ramen noodles late at night?
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Ha! I was thinking that the one about the eye is a bit bizarre, and that drawing reminded me this guy here from Pan's Labyrinth:
http://tylerdurdenia.files.wordpress...o_de_fauno.jpg
Perhaps it would be an interesting idea to give him a visit and ask for some advice on the skill :P
Ok that nasty thing from Pan's Labyrinth messed me up. Esp when he bit that fairy in half :hurl:
woblybil speaks German! Awesome.
Kind of a weird dream tho, but don't we all have those from time to time :lol:
And Pans Labyrinth is a scary, scary movie! Not watching that one again :eek:
No lucids unfortunately, but have the wings ready Ms. Blue, can't be too long till I ask some weirdo DC to teach me another language :chuckle:
Lets say I "did" speak German, Decent Spanish and enough Chinese to keep from being set up in a bar but I havn't used them in 40 years and if you don't use it you lose it....
And Midnight Ramens is the password to a secret society for the weird :P
Really they're just salty noodles and eating salty junk before bed sometimes helps the dreaming, Or a can of Sardines in Mustard Sauce will do.
Well I had two LDs last night and tried two different tasks.... failed them both. I am however going to get at least both of these done this month and the bank robbery!
Spoiler for Eyeball Fail:
Spoiler for Word in another language and meaning failure:
Second one was so close. Full dream link below.
AUG 2014 TOTM Fail - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Danke...Really in the years I spent there I learned it quite well but the kids in my generation were by then allowed English in schools and I only got to use it on the older folks, Then later in life I found that in most Communist countries where English was not allowed in schools that German was and when encountering older educated Chinese or older generation Russian communist bloc folk they had German as a second language so we had a common ground but you had to first thing let then know you were American not English, .. Just saying......
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Ok, here are my links,
Completed basic task: TOTM- Word-Biork - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Failed (Kind of comleted) advanced task (did not know what the story about the castle was, so made up stuff): TOTM-Failed? Did not know the story or characters. Still cool. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Completed Bonus Task:TOTM- Photo Shop- Cars - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
I had tons of fun. Thanks for the ideas everyone!
Maybe there should be a link to somewhere for people to watch Howl's Moving Castle or something... a lot of people don't know what it is D:
Ok, homework time for me on this thread!
sorry to make things complicated for you owo
:D I always find Ghibli sudios films to be very dreamy, I don't get tired of watching them again and again...
I tried out the basic task i last night… I would like to note first that I did make a mistake, having only skimmed this thread a few days ago and forgotten the exact wording of the task, so that when I asked each of the dream characters for a word, I left out the word “foreign”; but then, I was still asking them with the intention of hearing a foreign or made-up word. Would this still count? If not, I’d be happy to try it again, or another task as I planned to do anyway :)
Here are my attempts:
Quote:
Lucidity was spontaneous, and I found myself surrounded by people. The scene around me changed from that of the school to the town centre. As having so many people around was unusual, I thought of asking them something – and remembered the basic DV task of the month.
I approached one of the dream characters to ask she could tell me a word and its meaning, but everything she said was unclear; I couldn’t make out anything. Giving up on trying to understand, I moved onto a different dream character, who was simply standing there looking around with a slightly dazed expression. Asked her, as I had asked the previous character, to tell me a word.
“Yumuma,” she replied, not quite looking directly at me.
“What does that mean?” I asked her.
She looked slowly around us before replying, her mouth slightly open, eyes wide. Finally she turned back to me. “It means,” she said, “that this whole world is just a huge hallucination.”
This quite amazed me, as it’d been a while since I’d encountered a dream character so aware…on hindsight I wish I’d stayed and talked to her a little more, but instead I only leaned in and gave her a hug (she looked so bewildered, and I was suddenly curious as to how it would feel; extremely realistic, as I found out.) I was a little wary as in the past dream characters have attacked in the past when I’ve tried to do such things as hugged them, but I stayed calm and she did nothing to hurt me, even looked pleased. Then, my mind still on the task, I moved on, enjoying this and still wanting to see if I could get some good answers from other DCs. I approached a skinny blonde girl a little younger than me and asked her to give me a word.
“I don’t know,” she said, looking a little annoyed.
“Please?”
“I don’t know.”
“Just one word…”
“I don’t know.”
She seemed incapable of saying anything else. I noticed that there was another dream character lying casually on the ground (but they did not seem injured or hurt.) The dream character who had been replying “I don’t know” over and over again sat down on them at some point. They didn’t seem to mind. I gave up and moved away again. At this point the town centre was almost empty except for some people in uniform. One of them called out to me to ask if I could do them a favour and check there were no newspapers on the ground – another extremely unusual thing in my lucid dreams, for a dream character to suddenly ask me something like that. I did so, pointed out to them that there was newspapers neatly tucked in under chairs arranged against the walls of the hall; they said “Oh, that’s okay. Those are reserved.”
That conversation over, my mind went back to the task yet again. I approached one dream character, this time a middle-aged, thin man in uniform, but unfortunately it seemed that he was quite busy and in a rush to get somewhere. I tried anyway:
“Would you mind if I asked you a couple of questions?”
“I don’t have the time for such things,” he replied, and increased his pace.
“I only have two questions; they would take less than a minute.”
He shook his head. “I need to get some things done, still. Meet me on the bus later if you really want to ask me questions, once I can afford to be doing things at a slower pace.” And he disappeared through a doorway into a room which looked like some kind of office for the workers there.
I finally gave up on the task. The dream continued for a short while and I mostly focused on walking while paying attention to all my senses, observing what was around me and then trying to get to a place with a dream-character version of my friend while flying. Halfway through trying this last thing, I woke up.
If Yumuma then Hakuna matata :-P
Lmao @ Yumuma
I managed to fulfill the first Advanced Task this morning. I have copy/pasted the log entry below. The lucid portion is highlighted in blue, the task in purple. I had actually completed the task several days earlier, but mine memory was far too hazy to know for certain whether I was lucid or non-lucid, so I did the task again.
Spoiler for Dream:
Photoshop filter! Haha!
I'm gonna try to pull my eyeball out and then look at the world through that eyeball. Should be fun ;D
So, this is my plan for my next lucid:
1) conjure up a cucumber (summoning)
2) eat the cucumber (I hate cucumber - dare, + eat something)
3) conjure a flame to burn the evil cucumber, then manipulate it into Calcifer the fire demon (summoning, element manipulation, transformation)
4) "remember" that calcifer lives in the castle and Sophie is there, too (advanced summoning, advanced TOTM!)
5) have an interesting conversation with anyone who's around, asking them to teach me a foreign language (personal goal, basic TOTM)
I reckon that this plan will be easy to follow through, because each step leads on from the last, and most elements get me points in thecompetition from several angles simultaneously!
Woo!
Now all I need is to get lucid and remember the first step in the plan. Hmm, start visualising salads, I guess :-D
SammyTheSnake
Got basic i and was seconds away from completing Howl's castle. :?
Spoiler for Basic i:
Spoiler for Howl's Castle almost:
Calcifer DJ Entry 08 Aug
woof means hoof? :lol: