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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #4665 on: February 25, 2021, 03:17:17 am »

I was lucid dreaming in Washington DC, doing a tour of the national archives which I thought was real.  It was mostly boring, but it did have some details about a 2016-ish internet worm.  Despite being lucid, I thought I had been here- but it was an imagined place.

I left, and met my mom in a hall.  She was dreaming too.  She was carrying a pile of artifacts.  We talked about how cool lucid dreaming is, and she asked me to carry one thing into the real world.  I took it in my arms - it was large, perhaps a little spiny like a mine. 

I used to have lucid dreams almost every night as a teenager, to the point that it almost became distressing, but now i hardly have any.      I wish that lucid dreaming didn't have so many  bugs:     Running is generally impossible,   NPCs freeze, stop talking or give unintelligible responses when directly asked  questions,  places are unstable, text is   gibberish, the whole experience is too short...         Generally the best lucid dreams i had were deliberately induced by falling consciously asleep and done during the daytime when my mind was more alert.   But it took a lot of training and had a high failure rate, with many attempts resulting me   wasting an entire Saturday morning and falling fast asleep.  I once had an incredibly vivid out of body experience.  Other times there was hardly any visuals but a feeling of rapid movement that accompanied a tremendous high.    I miss that experience more than actual lucid dreams.
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« Reply #4666 on: February 27, 2021, 11:18:56 pm »

I was lucid dreaming in Washington DC, doing a tour of the national archives which I thought was real.  It was mostly boring, but it did have some details about a 2016-ish internet worm.  Despite being lucid, I thought I had been here- but it was an imagined place.

I left, and met my mom in a hall.  She was dreaming too.  She was carrying a pile of artifacts.  We talked about how cool lucid dreaming is, and she asked me to carry one thing into the real world.  I took it in my arms - it was large, perhaps a little spiny like a mine. 

I used to have lucid dreams almost every night as a teenager, to the point that it almost became distressing, but now i hardly have any.      I wish that lucid dreaming didn't have so many  bugs:     Running is generally impossible,   NPCs freeze, stop talking or give unintelligible responses when directly asked  questions,  places are unstable, text is   gibberish, the whole experience is too short...         Generally the best lucid dreams i had were deliberately induced by falling consciously asleep and done during the daytime when my mind was more alert.   But it took a lot of training and had a high failure rate, with many attempts resulting me   wasting an entire Saturday morning and falling fast asleep.  I once had an incredibly vivid out of body experience.  Other times there was hardly any visuals but a feeling of rapid movement that accompanied a tremendous high.    I miss that experience more than actual lucid dreams.
It's fascinating how much of that is very relatable, *used* to be relatable, or is just different from my experience!

I used to be unable to run, even in "normal" nightmares.  I think maybe it's still impossible to *flee* from things, but one can be like the wind, weightless, when it comes to moving forward (or even being an action badass, as a fun treat).  I dunno - maybe I've gotten jaded to the body-horror monster dreams.  Nowadays I feel more able to engage with the underlying psychological terrors my brain is trying to walk me through, which means the skinless horror sits down and starts asking for grandchildren or whatever.

Text being gibberish is a fascinating recurring thing, though weirdly not 100%!  I was definitely reading things last night.  But last night was weird in a lot of ways - I had a lot of pizza, and my subconscious reacted with a smorgasboard of wild nonsense.  It's crazy how reliably cheesy pizza before bed makes me trip balls, and there are similar reports going back centuries.  It's very unrestful though, like a fever and with constant interruption.

Places becoming unstable usually seems to happen when I try to force my will on a dream.  I don't tend to do that often.  The temptation is obvious, but it tends to be disappointing compared to leaving my subconscious in control.  The world falls away in my grip, and I risk my subconscious being less "kind" next time around.  The longer I put dreams off or interfere, the worse they get...  It's better to play along.

Speaking of, I still freakin hate daylight dreams.  Probably because they're the result of me failing to sleep, or actively avoiding sleep, because I'm having a particular mental time and am unready for another dream-lecture.  And bam, I have a 30 minute dream that feels like hours and freakin sucks.  "Lucid", sure, except that I'm too tired to know what's dream and what's glimpses of my room.  So I basically hallucinate, in similar ways to sleep-apnia.  Paralyzed in my room as people stand over me, that sort of thing.  I learn nothing and it basically sucks in all the worst ways. 

I mostly discarded last night's dreams as trash, but they largely involved a new modern-Doom game but with heavy RPG elements?  I think because I was playing Dungeon Siege 1 before bed.  See?  Meaningless.

Also blah blah gender stuff, but it was super confused.  It was either happening to a certain webcomic character, or I *was* them, and either way the big reveal was utterly wrong, and there was no coherent message.  I was just high on cheese.

And some politics!  Though, that involved backrubs and was very pleasant, and I cried but in a good way.  I didn't know I could cry like that in a dream, new datapoint I guess.  oh also I threw up on a jerk from my past, his reaction was *hilarious* (and was purely imaginary, thankfully)

There's a popular dream-like animation project called ENA.  I've only seen this one video from it, and perhaps it's more dreamlike than the rest of the series, but it feels appropriate for this thread.  There's a constant unease of riding the wave, trying to remain chill and cooperative so that things don't turn from weird to bad.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juBv2XWnwt8

also I like Ena's vocal quirk and, well, otherwise dualistic nature :)
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« Reply #4667 on: February 28, 2021, 10:32:49 pm »

I was supposed to play some game (Hide and Seek?) with a large group of people. Later, I was in some conversation with a group of those same people, and I just ate paper, tearing it off a book on a table. Completely nonchalant; just "you know what? This conversation's so boring; I'm eating paper in front of y'all, and y'all can't stop me." I remember it feeling remarkably like when I ate paper in real life, but far more digestible.
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« Reply #4668 on: February 28, 2021, 11:14:01 pm »

The scene was the shore of a huge lake. The shoreline was mostly cliffs about 30 to 50 feet high. Topping this was a Roman-Era stone block wall, crenellated and with a walkway atop it.  There were people scattered everywhere... spectators, merchants selling foods and trinkets, a car here and there on the road behind the wall. Beyond the road, the terrain rose almost mountainlike into the distance.

The scenery was breathtakingly beautiful, and the lake calm.  The weather was pleasantly warm and sunny.

I walked the wall, calling out to various groups of Roman soldiers to check on their progress preparing to defend the wall against an impending naval assault by Goths, which was scheduled for later that afternoon.  The crowd of spectators was still thin but we were expecting more.  I was dubious about the idea of Goths assaulting the wall from boats, which seemed ahistorical.  "We're reenactors of history, not actors in some stupid movie," I had told those in charge.  But they didn't care, they insisted it would make a good spectacle.

As I wandered along the wall and down to the shoreline at it's lowest point, it seemed fitting that I was the commanding Roman general and I was pleased with myself in spite of the absurdity of the reenactment to come.  Then the dream ended.
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« Reply #4669 on: March 01, 2021, 02:27:00 am »

I dreamed I was on a train to Russia. However the day/night cycle, seemed to be getting faster and faster as the trip went on. It seriously felt like it took several days despite myself only getting 8 hours of sleep. By the end the sky was Pmuch epileptic lights. And then I woke up.

Weird dream.
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« Reply #4670 on: March 02, 2021, 02:54:00 am »

I really don't even know what just happened to my night.

I got to bed at a fairly reasonable time (for me), one that would allow for a decent 8-ish hours of sleep.

What followed was absolutely not that.


Aside from waking up a couple times with what I can only assume were heart flutters (easily enough remedied with a quick Valsalva), I also went through a good 4-5 short dreams consisting of me waking up in a dilapidated, broken-down version of my own apartment, exposed by large chunks to both the outside and to considerably more and more obnoxious neighbors than I actually have.

One involved running through some of the most aggravating (and changing) architecture I've ever seen while just trying to find my goddamn bedroom, another had my neighbor taunting and jeering at me through a crack in the wall until I finally snapped and started running after him, at which point I turned into a bat and he shrank and just started flying (presumably through the power of his Bill Bailey haircut). A third had me staying in my apartment and trying to sleep while dealing with a dog that was both highly incorrigible and kept changing breed. Eventually we settled down however, at which point it was a GSD and we cuddled up in bed together to fall asleep.

The closeness of love of being able to hug this big furry beast reminded me of my childhood pup, and I both sobbed in-dream and woke up with tears. That was also fun.


So, varyingly; I've woken up in rage, frustration, terror, and aching sorrow over the course of this night. And then my alarm rang for gym.

F%@$.

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« Reply #4671 on: March 04, 2021, 04:39:19 am »

Why is it that every full moon night, I have the weirdest dreams.

First day of fullmoon: Dream about overdosing on cocaine and facing the social judgement.
Second day: Dream of accidentally crashing and killing a person in a car, facing the social consequences and jail.

Felt distressed as fuck in those dreams.
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« Reply #4672 on: March 17, 2021, 02:09:40 am »

I get weird dreams when I fall asleep to moonlight, too!  I'm pretty sure it isn't just the slight light level, either.  I've practically watched the moon move across my window between fits of sleep, then proceeded to have vivid dreams.  It's something psychological.

I had the strongest sense that this was a repeated dream, but I don't think it was.  I was part of a group of highschoolers in a somewhat authoritarian regime (common trend) where we got vacation in a VR wonderland.  Most of the dream was interacting with my fellow students.  I was pretty much like I was in high school - one of the several highschools - but I did moxie my way in with the popular girls for at least a little while.  And pulled off a little no-consequence flirtation with the guys.

There was a sublevel to the sim which addressed specialist... vices?  It had a vibe of being counter-culture while being a deliberate construct of the state.  "What is up my fellow kids" and all that.  But there was a cranky "NPC" down there who was obviously run by an actual person, and offered me something I actually wanted.

It was gender euphoria, again.  Thanks subconscious <3

But the crazy part is, I only tasted it.  I went back and tried to play more high school politics until the sun woke me up.  In this dream, I cared more about having friends than about experiencing my best self.
"Don't believe in yourself!  Believe in the me that believes in you!" - something I used to unironically live by, to the point that I had trouble accepting the eventual reversal (Gurenn Lagaan).

The caretaker didn't stop me, but it was there and I turned it down.  Interesting scenario.
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« Reply #4673 on: March 22, 2021, 08:08:00 am »

in this moment I am euphoric,, not because of any phony gender's blessing, but because I'm heckin cute and valid

also I dreamed of dancing underwater with an electric groove. Was a good dream but I was thirsty despite the swim

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« Reply #4674 on: March 27, 2021, 09:03:15 am »

A Japanese survival-horror, where a legitimate strategy was to spend your chargen points on "lucky" which would make your NPC allies a lot more resilient.  More likely to survive otherwise lethal circumstances.  They were waifu-bait of course, but it was possible to build a character around supporting and being saved by them.

IIRC there was a friend-from-childhood tomboy you get from the very start who was relatively strong (though fighting was basically just a delaying tactic, and she was normally expected to die during the first chapter).  And later you meet up with a demure-magic-princess trope, who becomes a powerful but polite blaster with the Lucky trait.  We still had to run from everything, but the two of them made it a lot easier. 

Possibly inspired by me playing Skyrim recently and leveling up... irresponsibly, and thus having to rely on Lydia a lot.  Because I die in literally two hits to certain enemies, who take up to 12 boosted fire bolts in turn.

A couple nights ago I had a variety of upsetting dreams about people seeing my messy room. In the worst bit I had my dad over, and then this random guy climbed a ladder up to my window and sorta grinned in like it was a funny joke.  But then he looked behind me, frightened, and he started pounding at the window loud.  And I got that familiar sleep-paralysis feeling that there was something juuust behind me, something I shouldn't try to look at.

eeee LW called me valid!  And referenced a funny!
Not that I care, obviously, but heck :)  It was nice at the time and it's still nice now.
Validation is a heck of a drug, huh

Dancing underwater sounds potentially really fun with dream-logic.  Smooth and weightless, good medium for doing flips and stuff.
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« Reply #4675 on: March 27, 2021, 12:06:51 pm »

A Japanese survival-horror, where a legitimate strategy was to spend your chargen points on "lucky" which would make your NPC allies a lot more resilient.  More likely to survive otherwise lethal circumstances.  They were waifu-bait of course, but it was possible to build a character around supporting and being saved by them.

IIRC there was a friend-from-childhood tomboy you get from the very start who was relatively strong (though fighting was basically just a delaying tactic, and she was normally expected to die during the first chapter).  And later you meet up with a demure-magic-princess trope, who becomes a powerful but polite blaster with the Lucky trait.  We still had to run from everything, but the two of them made it a lot easier. 

Possibly inspired by me playing Skyrim recently and leveling up... irresponsibly, and thus having to rely on Lydia a lot.  Because I die in literally two hits to certain enemies, who take up to 12 boosted fire bolts in turn.


Heck, I'd play the hell out of that game.
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« Reply #4676 on: March 28, 2021, 03:11:41 pm »

eeee LW called me valid!  And referenced a funny!
Not that I care, obviously, but heck :)  It was nice at the time and it's still nice now.
Validation is a heck of a drug, huh

Dancing underwater sounds potentially really fun with dream-logic.  Smooth and weightless, good medium for doing flips and stuff.
yeaaaa get validated

Dancing underwater is great with irl logic. Lots of ways to generate resistance and spin in ways you can't in air

Today's dream was all about clearing out old radioactive junk that was being exported out from an old dig site. And when I mean old, I mean ancient. One of those "this is not a place of honour" kinds of deals where we were just scanning to see what was decayed enough to handle and ship off to a museum and what had to stay long underground. Most of the dream was just taking showers in protective suits

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« Reply #4677 on: March 28, 2021, 04:24:00 pm »

had a lucid dream for the first time in five or six years the other day. i recently noticed that i keep having really stupid dreams about being in school again, so when i had yet another one i pretty quickly realized what was going on

main similarity i noticed between the one the other day and the one from years ago was that once i realized what was happening everything felt very slow and floaty, like i was walking on the moon or through honey or something like that. dunno why that is. regardless this time i woke up for seemingly no reason, which is a step up from last time, when in an attempt to conjure something in my hand i closed my eyes in the dream and then slammed them open in real life
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« Reply #4678 on: March 29, 2021, 07:26:35 am »

Dreamed I was exhausted and sleep deprived, so I went to the kitchen where too many people were talking about inane bullshit whilst I tried to fill a kettle with some fucking water to make hot water to make tea. I ended up stumbling through some chairs and a hoover to get there in the end.

I woke up, feeling still exhausted and sleep deprived, so I went to the kitchen where too many people were talking about inane bullshit whilst I tried to fill a kettle with some fucking water to make hot water to make tea. I ended up stumbling through some chairs and a hoover to get there in the end. Only now I was confused as to whether I was awake or not.

I woke up, hearing my cat meowing outside. Someone had let him outside at 3:00 A.M. and so I let him back in. He happily ran inside to eat food but my other cat hissed at him. I went back to sleep.

I woke up, feeling still exhausted and sleep deprived, so I went to the kitchen where too many people were talking about inane bullshit whilst I tried to fill a kettle with some fucking water to make hot water to make tea. I ended up stumbling through some chairs and a hoover to get there in the end. Only now I was completely in the gaslit realm of delirium as to whether I was awake or not.

I woke up, feeling still exhausted and sleep deprived, so I went to the kitcken which was bereft of people, stumbling about through some chairs and a hoover to fill a kettle with some hot water to make tea. Then I went to work where I ended up losing £10 on expenses because I forgot to print a receipt. And that wasn't a dream

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« Reply #4679 on: May 03, 2021, 05:32:25 am »

Dreamt that, while I was still living with my mom and stepdad, I had a roommate. Who decided to shave off my hair and beard while I was sleeping, rearrange all all my stuff, and hide all my game consoles(which I initially thought he stole). And, as happens a lot in dreams like this for some reason, the house's toilets were all in weird places. Apparently, he was pissed off at me, which according to my dream-stepdad is because I'm a lazy bum who does nothing all day.

Except, in real life I'm literally the only person in this house with full-time employment, and the production manager at work(who was on his way out after being promoted to store manager of a different store) told me I was one of the best employees he's ever worked with. So screw you, dream-stepdad.
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