The Nomad Chronicles

a few days ago

[I]This was part of a really long dream, but I just remember this.[/I]

I am at a party. A woman is on my lap that is not Angel. I keep wondering if I have a girlfriend or not. I think I do, but, no, that's another life. That's in a dream. This is my real life. Angel's my dream girlfriend. Right. This is my chick, right here. Why do I feel guilty?

[I]Nap frag[/I]

My math professor is driving me around the southeastern tip of Oahu near Makapu'u. I feel like he's driving me home, which is weird because I haven't lived there for 30 years. He says he's tired of snoddling me. He says he has to give attention to the other students. He says the other students are going to fail if he keeps giving me all the attention just because I am the lowest in the class. I feel a little embarrassed.

[I]I keep having these annoying non-lucids. I just want to get lucid from my non-lucid state and stop wasting dream time with stupid DC's and their random bullshit babblings.[/I]

I find MoSh in a strange meditation room in Castle Anthrax.

I built this myself, his Shadow Self says. He is sitting in lotus before a mirror. There's a lot of leather, silver, and furs about. Lobo.

He stands up, and cracks his neck. For a second, I see a werewolf with red eyes.

They took her again, or a part of her, or something. All I know is someone out there on the dream plane has hell to pay. I nod solemnly.

I am in the Form of Timelyst Knight, my Future Self, AKA my Shadow Self, an android with a dark energy symbiote for armor. He stares me in the eye, and whips out a jagged dagger. He is now all Shadow Beast Self. He cuts himself, then me. His werewolf undead blood mixes with my dark energy symbiote, and nanobot fluid. A dark fire burns behind his eyes, and his skin becomes adamantium beneath his fur. I feel a rush of energy. He wraps a rag around our wrists.

NOW WE ARE BROTHERS, he says.

We watch the fluids drain into the rag, then he unties it, and rips it in half. We tie each half around our foreheads.

We are now in a motorcycle garage. He hops on a cruiser and pushes his wolf soul into it, then his head changes to that of a great cobra. He grins at me and roars, with the wolf head of his bike, and he starts it.

I am a black android lion. I roar with my Juarcycle, with the head of jaguar, and we take off into a wormhole.

There is a battle at the end.

We are flying over a huge battlefield. No one seems to notice.

There is a strange giant with no face, made of green cylinders being attacked by a massive army of orcs. Where is she?

The giant said that she is inside him, on one of the lower floors. He explains he is a Building, which are apparently alive in this world. The orcs are attacking him to get to her. I scan him. He's right, brother. He is telling the truth.

Mosh leaps off his cycle, and it becomes a giant werewolf, some kind of familiar, and runs through the ranks the orcs wreaking havoc. MoSh shoot chains at the orcs out of his hands. He whips them around and laughs maniacally. I turn into a thousand ice penguins, and freeze the orcs. They get very annoyed.

They all turn to me. I drain their dark energy. They get angry. I become a red energy vampire, and drain their red energy. They emit blue energy, and try to get me to pity them. Then I blast the shit out of them with two beams of energy, one red, one black.

MoSh is flying over them, spraying them with green fire. They run in terror.

We beat the crap out of the orcs on the giant.

(to be continued)

I look on lovingly at all the sparks glowing softly on the dark side of Urth....

Some of you want to be lucid... Bring your dreams to me...

Dream guides bow down, and set down dream bubbles.

I bow to the dream guides, then I shoot astral tentacles into all the dream bubbles. I morph into a demonic jackalope, and send armies of jackalopes into people's dreams.

My jackalopes offer people Devil's Food Carrot Cake with the especially evil Cream CHEESE FROSTING OF DOOM!

If people don't like carrots, I tie them up, and force them to eat it. They like it. They always do.

Then, I explode into hundreds of cute fluffy bunnies hopping all over their tied up dream bodies.

THIS IS NOT A DREAM! I AM NOT PART OF YOU. I AM LEGION, FOR WE ARE MANY.

MUHAHAHA.

Then, I change back into a giant man with the head of a white deer, I am 60 feet tall. I grab the dreamer and roar in his face.

[B]I AM A SEPARATE ENTITY, SEPARATE FROM YOUR MIND. THIS IS NOT A DREAM. THIS IS REAL.[/B]

I laugh, then create a portal to a fun chocolatey place, and drop them in.

I am leaning back on my chair in my office, underground in the Hell of Mars. Everything is uncomfortably claustrophobic. I am The Devil of Mars. HAHAHAA. My secretary buzzes me:

Mr. Devil Sir, you're wanted on Urth. Someone wants a demon.

Nice. Maybe I will make them lucid. hehe. Then I will eat their soul. Just kidding. Stop talking to yourself.

WTF.

A fiery window portal forms above me. I have never seen anything like it. I jump in. The wormhole is on fire. Wow.

I appear in a column of smoke in some salt flats in the middle of a great desert.

I see a young man wearing a letterman's jacket, and a wizard's robe. Okay... There is a girl with him wearing a pink sweater with her hair in a ponytail. What is this? Some kind of 80's Brat Pack horror dream?

I HAVE SUMMONED THEE.

No shit, Sherlock.

You know, this is a dream. And I am the god of dreams. Now I am going to swallow your soul.

NO, FOUL DEMON!

He leaps on me, and rips my head off. He proclaims loudly that he can kill me because it's a dream.

Oh, he knows he's dreaming. Mission complete. Meh. I shrug my shoulders, and vanish.

I am in White Void for a second. Oh, I actually dream-died. Weird.

I reappear in my Hell on Mars. Why did I make it so claustrophobic? God damn it! Oh right... demons have no fear.

Shit.

[I]notes[/I]

Raven is there before me... okay...

My castle is decorated with a Halloween like-theme.

Raven is riding around on a silver disk. She gives me one.

She gives me a white android cat for my birthday. Or is it a cyborg? GAH! It become the size of a human and starts talking.

We eat lots of dream food. We keep eating the whole time, and laughing about how we can eat as much as you want.

You were there, but I am sorry if I can't remember you. lol

We all play a simulated battle.

There is also a standing hollow wave. I surf it. A demon surfing a wave on Mars... haha...

I surf on the soil of Mars.

In the wormhole. WTF.

The Urth-Mars wormholes are insane. Wyrmhole Wyrms are battling a myriad of enemies. Ow!

One of the Templars got a dart in my ankle. I pull it out, and stick it into the side of the wormhole. Parasites begin swarming around the dart.

YOU IDIOT. THE WORMHOLE IS ALIVE. one of the wyrms shouts at me as he pulls it out.

OOPS. Little bat-imps swarm me. Ah, you fuckers. I turn on my silver centipedes, and the bats can't hurt me, but they are still annoying me. I fly through the portal and land on Mars. My home planet. I rip a bat off my face, and stomp it into the red soil. Ah, Mars. I inhale deeply the non-existent atmosphere.

I put my fingers in my mouth and whistle. I see a black spire appear on the horizon.

Castle Anthrax walks deftly over the Martian landscape on giant robotic crab legs, then settles down in front of me. I teleport inside. I walk around, making sure everything looks dark and creepy before Raven gets here. I teleport back outside, and look at my watch. It reads the infinity symbol. Oh, yeah. This is a dream. Duh...

Raven appears out of a portal. Her hair is a little tousled, and her hood is down.

Had a little detour there, but I am good, she says. Good, I say. I turn invisible and teleport far behind her into the sky. She looks at my castle, and doesn't react to me vanishing. Weird. I hide in the arch of the castle. As she walks in, I pounce on her. She shrieks for a second, then tosses me off. NOMAD. You stop that!

You can't really scare me.

But, I'm a big badass demon!

She laughs and pushes me playfully in the chest activating the centipede disk. Silver centipedes come out and crawl all over me.

OH GROSS.

They crawl up her arm. She hits the disk on my chest, and they all crawl back.

We are in the courtyard of the castle. Black gnarled trees grow strange peach like fruits. There are dozens of living black gargoyles watching us from the walls. Vines wrap around her ankles, and she cuts them off.

WTF. Those are not supposed to be there!

I summon a battalion of moles to get rid of enemies below. They surface, then go back underground. We walk up the castle steps.

It looks like the castle of Morpheus, she says.

Yes, I modeled this after his. But, the difference between this fortress on Mars, and our Dark Tower on the Moon, is that place, and the City of Nowhere are defensive, this place is offensive. Ah...

We go into the main hall. There is a huge spread of food awaiting us. Raven goes for the strawberry dessert and the chocolate cake.

I ask her if she'd like some moose, holding a full grown dead moose on a platter.

No, Nomad! You are ridiculous. The moose runs away.

We don't eat long, because we get bored of it.

I show her tapestries depicting our battles against the Templars of many dimensions. We walk down a long hall full of suits of armor that I and my predecessors have created. We enter the study. There are many books on history, flora and fauna, and some of spells and speculation.

There is a large book in the center, which is a portal to the Akashic Records.

(to be continued)

I float up out of bed... I am Deathgawn, the demon. I feel parasite wriggling about in my dream body. I send my nanobots after them. I rip off my centipede disk on my chest, and my silver centipede crawl all over my dream body. The nanobots force the parasites to the surface, and the centipedes sting them, and carry the parasite to the black hole portal on my chest.

TAKE THAT, FUCKERS.

[I]Target: Nomad. Dream body manifest. Engage! Engage! Engage![/I]

Who just-

Red lasers come at me from all directions. I wrap my cape over me to deflect. I have a cape? It's my vampire cape. WTF? No, time to consider that now. The lasers singe my flesh, and burn through the cape. My witchblade forms over me automatically, and I hit my energy belt button... Beneath the cape I morph into a red energy vampire, possessed by a demon. Me. A red flame burns behind my eyes. I have slicked back black hair with red streaks. I am wearing leather armor, black and red. Red spikes come out of my fists. I turn off my defenses, and open my cape, absorbing the energy into me.

The Templars of Urth, spook fucks in suits and dark glasses, turn up the heat, giving me more power. Tickles. Idiots.

I write in the air with my finger, in big fat burning red letters:

[COLOR="red"][B][SIZE="6"]LOL[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

I write it over and over again, until there are dozens of LOL's floating in the air. The Templars become confused. I grab the words out of the air, throw the letters at them. I make the letters 2D, which makes them sharp beyond belief. The LOL's spin through the air, and slice the Templars up. They die, and then come back at me again through sky portals.

I teleport behind them, over and over, biting their necks, and draining their energy. Soon, they don't have enough energy to respawn. Now, they looked like dried husks of corpses, barely breathing. They are littered about the landscape. I morph back into Deathgawn form.

I summon a 50 gallon drum of gasoline. I pour it all over the Templars. NO! NO! They plead.

"Don't you know I am the Juargawn, the Juar god? Don't you fools know I am the god of lucid nightmares?" I say in my head, then decide to torture them with silence.

I pull out a pack of American Spirits, and light a cigarette, then toss it behind me. The scene erupts into flame. I laugh, and create a portal to MARS.

***

Ok, weird how I remember this now... this dream was so long, but anyway, I will do my best to recall it all.

I am at some weird house party... I notice people's astral tentacles, but I don't really think about it.

I am led to a hidden submarine dock under this huge house in a cave. I look at the small sub curiously. I brag about how my girlfriend bought me a submarine ride for my birthday. For some reason, I think of my first girlfriend, Terri, when I was 17... (Now 35!)

I go in the sub. I see Edwards there, I guy I served in the Coast Guard with. He is changing into a uniform. I do the same thing. I forget I am supposed to ride it, and now I think I am supposed to work on it. I feel annoyed. This job sucks. I am going to cater to all these rich snobby fuckers. DAMMIT. I look around the crew's quarters. It just looks like the inside of a boat... A lot of metal painted white, with pipes going everywhere.

[I]I wake up, and am awake for a couple hours. I somehow re-enter the dream without wanting to.[/I]

I am walking down a ladder... this fucking job. Change to a different uniform blah blah blah. What a waste of time! A couple guys share a room with two doors. I shortcut through their room to get to mine without asking them. They are also changing their uniform. They are a little annoyed with me.

I am in my boxers.

I open the door, and there is a Buddhist meeting in there for young women. They are all in their pajamas. I am confused, annoyed, and embarrassed. I see Miki there.

SORRY.

I wake up.

[I]I call this ancient, because I had it about 20 years ago when I was a kid. At the time, I had no idea what dream control was, even though I would become lucid all the time, especially in nightmares. I used to call out to Jesus, but it didn't work very well. I used to wake myself up, but I would often have an FA where I had a demon induced SP...[/I]

I am in some type of colloseum...

How the hell did I get here? This must be a dream. SHIT. That's a big ass bull. Why are people throwing roses? The bull is enraged. This big black bull wants to kill me. The bull charges at me. Oh god... WAKE UP. shit shit shit

Jesus! Help... The bull is a demon. He's making me have this nightmare!

OH GOD I AM GOING TO DIE. JESUS! HELP!

I can't wake up.

As the bull gets closer, I toss rags on its face, not knowing what else to do.

[I]right before he gores me, I wake up.[/I]

If you can come to Mars tonight in a dream, do it.

I am throwing a party for myself in my Martian fortress. Why? It was my birthday yesterday, and also for EPIX LULZ

I had a very long dream last night, which I didn't really care for. I don't remember much, except, I found the whole thing frustrating.

lizards...

The House

stuck in high school

that is all

I am sitting before my mirror in my meditation room. I ask Xaphor to appear. He does, and asks me if I really want to see into my last past life?

I say yes.

Things get very... confusing. Apparently, I am seeing into more than one at a time. I focus on one....

***

I am sexy young Black woman in San Francisco in the 60's. I am doing my hair in the mirror, getting ready to go to a show. I meet Angel there for the first time. She's a skinny White girl with ash blond hair, freckles, and grey-green eyes.

I playfully flirt with her. "Hey, what's up white sugar?"

She giggles. She has a boyfriend, but I really like her. We end up hanging out that night, and she gets drunk, so I take her to my little studio, and take care of her.

She wakes up to me cooking eggs and bacon. She stretches and yawns.

HOLY SHIT, MY HEAD HURTS. Where... am I?

Good morning, Sweetcream, I laugh.

Oh, shit, did we have sex? she asks.

I am a little taken aback. I pause for a second. "No!" I feel my face heat up. I am glad my dark skin hides my blushing.

Oh. Okay. Well, you know, I am not a lesbo... but, oo, what are you cooking? I am thirsty. I have to pee... oh, my head...

I pour her a glass of water, and bring it to her. I help her sit up and take a sip. She vomits the water on me. OH SHIT SORRY.

It's just water.

Oh, I have to pee!

She gets up, and goes for a pee. Oh, honey, I forgot you name! she calls from the toilet.

Esmerelda, but, just call me Ez.

Oh... I feel like shit.

Just take it easy, there... Cynthia.

Did I tell you that's my name? My friends call me Cyn.

Nice. So, your breakfast is ready.

I don't know if I can eat it! heheh

Take your time.

She joins me at the table, and we sit and talk as she slowly sips the water.

***

A strange creature bursts through the door. It has two large bulbous eyes, sharp teeth, and many tentacles. YOU STOLE MY GIRLFRIEND! It screams at me. Suddenly the appearance of everything changes, but the energy is the same.

We are in some strange space station, but Angel and I both have katanas. WTF. I don't know what the hell is going on, but I am going to kill this fucker!

We slice and dice the bastard up.

[I]missing time[/I]

Angel and I awake in bed together. We caress each other and smile. Her boyfriend bursts through the door with two knives. With a woman? YOU FUCKING CUNT! I morph into a jaguar, and pounce on him. He stabs me in the chest, and I just grin. I rip his throat out.

OH MY GOD, IS HE DEAD?

No, it's a dream, honey.

[I]missing time[/I]

Angel and I are in Golden Gate park. We are smoking weed, and talking about the nature of the universe. A big white dog runs up to me. Uh... Raven? Raven jumps on me and licks my face. A tall White hippie boy with a French accent comes up to me. I guess she likes you! She's my friend's dog. He's a local, you know.

WTF, it's ... MoSh? Angel sees me checking him out, and pretends to not be jealous. Asuka runs up and hugs him. Angel checks her out, and I pretend to not be jealous.

We end up all being friends and hanging out. We party and smoke a lot of weed together. We talk about how we love peace and love, and we are serious. We are not some bandwagonners.

Due to jealousy, and not having any clear relationship boundaries, an undercurrent of resentment builds, and Asuka and Mosh part ways with Angel and I eventually. I miss them, and feel bad about it. I try to contact them, but I can never find them again. I have a picture of the four of us with Raven as beautiful big white dog at the beach. I keep it in my wallet forever.

My ex-boyfriend keeps chasing me. I don't know what to do. He is so creepy. He runs up behind me, hits me, then runs away. He does this over and over again at random times, usually when I am alone in the dark. He knocks me out twice. I am afraid he is going to kill me. He is always following me. I can't take it anymore. I take a bunch of pills, and alcohol, and jump off of a sea cliff at night. Angel sees me, and jumps in the water after me.

She is able to help me get to dry land. I vomit on the beach.

YOU STUPID BITCH! I LOVE YOU! she screams at me. She pours me into her car, and gives me a towel from the backseat. She is crying as she drives me to her little apartment.

I DON'T CARE IF WE ARE LESBIANS. I don't care if we can't get married, I don't care if we can't have kids.... I LOVE YOU, and I AM GOING TO KILL YOUR EX-BOYFRIEND FOR THIS.

No... you'll go to prison... stop yelling...

I'm sorry, Ez. I just really love you.

Pull over.

I puke up a lot of the alcohol and pills.

Well, that's good... we need to get you some water.

She nurses me back to health. She and I take up some kung fu classes. She tells me just because we're peace lovers doesn't mean we can't defend ourselves. We decide to bait my ex. I become extremely alert, almost obsessed, waiting for the next attack. I walk alone. I know he's watching me. I turn as I hear him run at me. I crouch, and flip him over my shoulder. He lands on his back, with a loud exhale. Good, he got the wind knocked out of him. I stomp on his stomach so he can't breathe.

TAKE THAT, FUCKER.

Angel runs out to help, but I am sitting in his chest, pummeling his face. I feel his face bones break beneath my fists. I am crying tears of rage.

Angel tries to pull me off, but it's impossible. EZ EZ! You are going to kill him!

I let her pull me off. I spit in his face. I lean against a wall, breathing hard. Angel slowly walks up to him. You think it's cool to hit girls, you piece of shit? She kicks him in the ribs. I hear them crack loudly as they break. She walks away then turns back. She rips off his shirt, then takes lipstick out of her purse and writes on his chest. "I GOT MY ASS KICKED BY A COUPLE OF CHICKS."

We laugh, and walk away.

***

We are together for a couple years, and we play with Raven in Golden Gate park all the time when her owner brings her there. We eventually break up, but remain friends. Every once in awhile, we meet up and have hot sex under the full moon. She calls me her African Queen.
We promise we are going to meet again next life time.

I am standing on a hill, and teaching Loaf how to summon. He summons DC dinosaurs which look like the one on my didjeridoo. He then summons lightning to destroy one, but it only slows it down. He is annoyed, and I chuckle.

I am standing on a hill, and teaching Loaf how to summon. He summons DC dinosaurs which look like the one on my didjeridoo. He then summons lightning to destroy one, but it only slows it down. He is annoyed, and I chuckle.

Okay, first we are going to practice teleportation, says Raven.

Some of us teleport to the practice area. The rest walk out. Raven teleports behind me, and smacks my head playfully. HEY!

See how that works? Think about where you want to be, and blink.

Everyone teleports around the practice area.

Wow, this is much easier to learn in dreams, says Red.

Now, let's summon weapons.

Everyone summons a weapon, except two people. That's when I notice there are about 5 other people in the class who I don't recognize. One is an indigo minotaur, who looks like a kid.

Just think of the weapon. Oh! There it is!

Now, think of another weapon. Cool! It works.

Now, think of your chocolate cake- I mean, think of your favorite food!

Everyone summons cake with another food on top. One person summoned a cake with a slice of pizza in it. We all laugh.

People start shooting fireballs and lightning at each other. The Biodome teleports them out. Stephanie! Raven shouts at teh AI.

Violence detected.

Yes, I know! It was. Listen, security override, 453 blah blah blah. Get them back in here. Nomad, make a force field.

I make a pyramid force field, while Raven reprograms Stephanie not to teleport any students in the force field. The reappear back in the Biodome, covered in moon dust. That was fun! heheh

Everyone battles each other in the pyramid, mostly with elements. People are putting out fire with water. Someone becomes mercury and redirects the lightning at his opponent.

Now, you are learning Archetype Counterspells! I shout, as I run around the bottom in a circle. Raven and I wink at each other. We execute Hiryu Shoten Ha, creating a multi-elemental tornado, sucking them all down into a portal. Raven and I laugh, and jump in. We tumble through the wormhole. It's very peaceful because it just goes to another part of the Biodome. Now we are falling through the sky.

Some scream in terror. The other students shout at their classmates to fly. I turn into Peter Pan... but, I am actually Deathgawn in a too small Peter Pan costume? Uh....

Everyone stops falling, and laughs at me. I grow it to make it fit. It's really tight, and looks pretty fruity. They laugh harder. I shrug and sing, "You can fly, you can fly, you can fly!"

The sun sets, and the earth rises. We fly into the Biodome sky. First star to the left, then straight on til morning!

Where are we going?

NeverWonderHell! I say, creating a portal as we fly in. My Inner World of terror and delight! I grin madly, baring my fangs.

Red grips Raven's arm. He's acting crazy.

He is crazy, says Raven. We all are.

Comforting... mumbles Red.

As we fly through the wormhole, it glows with a red light, and I summon a chalkboard. I draw a huge circle. This is the Dream Urth, the version of Earth on the Dream Plane. I draw smaller circles around the big one. These are Inner Worlds. I draw two concave curves forming a stretched tunnel between Urth and the Inner Worlds.

What about the Moon?

I draw another large circle with many wormholes connecting it to Urth.

So, are we going to Urth to get to your Inner World?

No. Because I am on the Moon. So my Inner World is on the Moon. It's inside me. I basically just ate all of you, including myself.

WTF!

Loaf is riding a strange black winged beast. Suddenly his lucid self appears in his lap. WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK his lucid self says, and vanishes.

Your other self woke up?

He woke up into a false awakening. He got freaked out, and tried to wake himself up. Now I am going to wake up for real. Bye guys.

But, wait!

Time for school.

Loaf vanishes.

Loaf reappears. Oh, wait. I don't have school today. I re-entered the dream. LOAF HAS RE-ENTERED THE DREAM.

WTF? When did we get a narrator?

Haloha. This is Data. I am your guide and journey. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey. For, you will be assisted throughout your attendance to Dark Inner World of Nomad.

I see Asuka walk through a portal with a Data disguise on.

Just kidding, Nomad!

She runs past me to MoSh who is standing behind me, and gives him a hug. They both turn into dragons. He's a green dragon, and she's a pink one. So, we are going to home? says Asuka.

We're going to my house right now? You guys want to come over for dinner? You can eat as much as you want! HAHAHAHA!

Asuka nods and bows. MoSh blushes, and says he has something to do, please excuse him. He creates a picture of a snowy forest, and he and Asuka put on winter clothes, and step through.

We fly for a few seconds in silence. I look at the wormhole. It's surface looks like fluffy cotton, glowing red, with strange plastic objects embedded in it. I see what looks like a cross between a giant Chucky head and MoSh pop out of the side of the wormhole. DO YOU WANT TO SEE? IT SAYS.

Uh... NO! NO!

It opens it's mouth, and tries to suck me in with a black hole portal. I unleash the black hole portal on my chest, but it's weaker. I shoot light at the portal, and I am able to push away a few inches, but it just sucks me in.

Then, I am watching a weird movie in a theater, where I saw the Claymation dream movie. It's a movie about MoSh, Asuka, and I. It shows versions of us in another dimensions, in past and future lives. It's very confusing. In one we are three algae cells. In another we are all lesbian lovers. In another we are having and open relationship but Asuka and I are girls. In one, I am MoSh's wife, and we are both cheating on the other with her. In another we are all horses. In another we are all unicorns. In another we are all dragons. In another we are all siblings, but I am the only boy. I keep seeing all these weird ass scenes like this. It starts to to terrify and annoy me. I somehow feel guilty.

I storm out into the lobby. Who is making me watch this weird shit? I shout. Apparently, the three of you requested it, Data says.

MoSh steps in to the lobby. Don't feel weird, man. Those versions of ourselves are all individuals from parallel universes, and so things are not always going to be the same. Just relax. Here, you have a joint, and I'll have a beer. He says cheers, and I pound his beer with my fist that has the joint in it. I light it up.

Dude, I love smoking in dreams. It feels so weird. Asuka joins us. She asks to try the joint. I hand it to her. She puffs on it and coughs. Oh! Itai. Okay... Sip. Mochi. Biru. Asuka takes a sip of his beer.

Mochi? Oh, you are Mochi? Anata no namae wa Mochi desu. I say to MoSh. Asuka giggles and MoSh blushes. Sh! He says.

Oh, I remember, Asuka says. Me and Mochi would smoke it a lot, you know, in the 60's. I was Japanese girl, then my American boyfriend in San Francisco, went to Canada because of Vietnam... so I followed him, but he was kind of an asshole, and then, I was scared. So, I tried to get away, but I was afraid he was going to kill me. And, anyway, I made friends with Robert, he was the janitor at the motel, and he heard my boyfriend throw me against the wall, and he got the keys from the maid, and kicked his ass. So, she laughs. He was my hero. But, he was big hippie boy. Very nice big French Canadian, so... sexy accent. She laughs. And, he didn't like to be violence. But, he wants to save me, so I say, Instant Love. But, I couldn't get my visa, so because I go to Canada illegal, and I couldn't leave and go back to Japan in time to go back to U.S. You know, immigration. So, I was hiding with him, kind of. Working in the motel. We used to play guitar, well, he play guitar, and I sing in the park. Even with my accent, I can sing, you know. She laughs.

So, we were poor, and the studio was too tiny. Then, we lived in a tent in the park, but the cops said we couldn't camp there. Then, anyway, he started selling some marijuana, and some mushrooms, and some cocaine, and LSD, and PCP, but not heroin. So, we had lots of money too fast, and then we got attention, so we had to move, and actually ran away to California, and just live, us both now, hiding from immigration, but he makes money from drugs. So, one day, cops raid the house, and he goes to prison in Canada, and I get deported to Japan.... So, that was the end. But, it was a nice love. We did our best.... But, it was too hard to meet, we gave up... so he married Canadian girl when he made his money. He farm. I married stoic Japanese salary man... but, I always think of my sexy French Canadian hippie boy even when old lady...

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I am walking with Asuka and MoSh through a forest. We are talking about the nature of time and space, string theory, entanglement theory, the theory of relativity, quantum physics, dark energy, dark matter, and black holes. Angel appears. I love talking about this kind of shit. She says. We talk about the nature of the universe, and the nature of dreams.

Everything fuses, then we all wake up in four single beds in the same room. We are being experimented on. We are all screaming. We rip headphones off of our heads.

What the hell was that? I shout!

A guided dream, says Gawn, stepping into the room. This is a form of hypnosis that can be used in waking life. What you do is have the person simply fall asleep, then suggest things to them. It's important to space things apart, so the people do not wake up. I am so good, I actually only spoke two words to you: Dream Life.

Oh.... I say.

So, where are we, really, Gawn? Am I going to have another false awakening?

I feel Michael pulling me out of my body. I am in pure dream. I feel so much lighter! I shout.

I just pulled your dream body out of your astral body. Your astral body is still having that astral dream. Oh weird!