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    The "Dream Guide"

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    CanisLucidus
    , 05-13-2013 at 02:59 PM (880 Views)
    Although I didn't get my goals accomplished in this lucid dream, I did meet my first supposed "dream guide". Not as... competent as I might have expected.

    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #94: The "Dream Guide"

    I'm walking down a sidewalk past a construction zone. One of the construction workers is crouched down low to measure something. I notice that he's using our diaper bag to make the measurement. I wonder what on Earth is going on but I'm in a hurry. You know what? I don't even want to know. I wait until the worker isn't looking and then just swipe the bag, throw it over my shoulder, and forget about it.

    A little further on, I pass a couple walking with their daughter, a blonde girl of about 7 or 8. The girl glances at me as I pass. I think nothing of this at first, but after a few steps, I'm overcome by this feeling of being watched. I turn around to look behind me and the little girl is following me now, floating a couple of inches off of the ground. She has an unsettling, dead-eyed expression, and I hurry to get away. She's faster than I am, though, and as she seizes my hand, a horror movie "dun DUUNNNN!!" soundtrack plays. At first I'm spooked, but the effect is so ham-handed that     I become lucid.

    "This is just a dream," I tell her.

    She smiles happily, no longer the fright figure of just moments ago. "It is!" she exclaims, dropping my hand and raising her arms over head triumphantly. "And I'm going to help guide you through it!"

    Cool, I could use some help... "So that means you're a Dream Guide?"

    "Oh, okay!" she says, not inspiring my confidence.

    "Can you help me out with teleportation?" I ask, walking down the street with her. The road soon turns to cobblestone as we move away from the construction site. There are fewer people around now.

    She shakes her head. "I haven't learned that kind of stuff yet..."

    "Okay," I say. "Well, my goal for this dream was..."

    She interrupts and speaks really rapidly: "You're going to summon NewArtemis and have her turn into a werewolf!" She grins, proud to show off her ability to read my mind. (She refers to Art by her DV handle.)

    I smile, amused. "That's right... [NewArtemis]. The plan is to use a handshake summon. Can you help me do that?"

    "Oh no," she says. "I haven't learned how to do summoning yet."

    The street seems to be ending so I hop casually over the buildings at the end of the street, float over them, and land on another cobblestoned street just beyond. The little girl follows, floating just slightly behind. We're at a T-intersection and to my left is the mouth of a dark tunnel. I say, "How about I show you how to do that handshake summon?"

    She nods eagerly and I extend my hand off to my right, out of sight, and repeatedly imagine NewArtemis performing the handshake. After a while, I feel the beginnings of a handshake. The little girl gasps and claps her hands. "What's it look like?" I ask. The girl doesn't answer and as I look at her now, I realize that she looks like a teenager and that her hair has lengthened and changed color. "Am I changing you?" I ask, starting to feel confused. It occurs to me how confusing it is to look at the girl while trying to imagine NewArtemis. It's like trying to remember how a song goes when something else is blaring on the radio. I feel like I might be morphing the girl into NewArtemis but I'm unsure whether I should switch to trying that. I'm becoming distracted.

    I feel an insistent tap in the palm of my hand, as if the middle finger of the person I'm shaking hands with was repeatedly poking me and trying to get my attention. My mind races between the summoning effort, the tapping in my hand, the girl's shifting appearance, and my own indecision as to whether the summoning is ready for me to turn and look. Soon,     the dream collapses.
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    1. Xanous's Avatar
      What an odd DC! For some reason I'm thinking of Clarence the angel from its a wonderful life. I can see why the dream collapsed with all that confusion going on. Maybe the girl will come back after she's got her wings and knows what the heck she's doing! Seriously though it just sounds like she's a reflection of your own self doubts with dream control. You gotta believe man!
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha! Clarence the Angel! That is perfect.

      And I completely agree. I think the girl was also a reflection of what was going on in the moment. Rather than me asking her whether she's a dream guide, what needed to happen is me knowing that she is one. My doubt fueled her doubt, and then bam, she's incompetent. You can see it in the way I kept asking her stuff rather than simply stating things. It's weird how I can know the right way to do things when I'm awake and then forget a lot of it when the time comes. I think a lot of it is about practice and forming habits.

      I'm not too disappointed by the collapse at the end. Like you said, there was a lot going on at the end. What I should have probably done is just done the handshake with the girl, looked away, and done a simple transform to Art from there.

      BTW, this was a DILD after I tried huperzine-A this morning at WBTB. I was trying to WILD but just wound up falling asleep. But I'll take em any way I can get em!
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    3. PennyRoyal's Avatar
      Hmm, kind of a bummer that you didn't have the most competent dream guide.

      Did you ever consider trying to use your handshake method to shake the hand of a random DC while turning away and imagining the person you want? Maybe the solidarity of having a hand there already will help. This one made the idea pop in my head.

      Congrats on another Lucid CL

      edit: Just read your comment above, looks like you HAD thought of it lol
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Did you ever consider trying to use your handshake method to shake the hand of a random DC while turning away and imagining the person you want? Maybe the solidarity of having a hand there already will help. This one made the idea pop in my head.
      I'd just like to say that this idea is the product of a brilliant and gifted mind. Anyone that would come up with something like this obviously possesses great intellect, good looks, and clean living.

      But serious, I totally agree and I should really consider this very strongly in the future for any "non-essential" DCs. Just shake their hand and switch em. I do have to sort of get over the weird feeling of, "What happens to this DC after I change them?" I mean, I know they're not real but... I don't know, they seem so real that there's still that weirdness.

      And thanks, man, much appreciated.
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    5. PennyRoyal's Avatar
      I'd just like to say that this idea is the product of a brilliant and gifted mind. Anyone that would come up with something like this obviously possesses great intellect, good looks, and clean living.
      Hahaha, of course.

      Just shake their hand and switch em. I do have to sort of get over the weird feeling of, "What happens to this DC after I change them?" I mean, I know they're not real but... I don't know, they seem so real that there's still that weirdness.
      Imagine it's like the Matrix and you're only infusing an "agent" into their body so to speak, lol. When you wake up the agent leaves that avatar and goes back into the system Sorry, I watched the 2nd Matrix last night lol
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Imagine it's like the Matrix and you're only infusing an "agent" into their body so to speak, lol. When you wake up the agent leaves that avatar and goes back into the system Sorry, I watched the 2nd Matrix last night lol
      Ha ha, the "agent" thing was actually what I was imagining when I described this. I hadn't actually thought about what happened to the "infused" individual, but now that you mention it, that doesn't seem too bad. Thanks!
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    7. Iokheira's Avatar
      Wow, you're on a roll! I love the cheesy horror movie part Too bad your "dream guide" wasn't more helpful! Do you think her youthful appearance helped instill any doubt? And do you think her referring to me was a reflection of lack of knowledge, or more like how you actually refer to me? Most of the time I think of you, you're Canis, the rest is your actual name.
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    8. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Wow, you're on a roll! I love the cheesy horror movie part Too bad your "dream guide" wasn't more helpful! Do you think her youthful appearance helped instill any doubt?
      Ha ha, thanks! Yeah, I got a kick out of that horror movie part, too, and I was doubly grateful since that was the clue that got me lucid this time. As for the dream guide's appearance, I have to admit that it's possible her lack of knowledge may have been something I projected from her age. I'd feel a little bad if that's the case because I think that kids are probably much better dreamers than untrained adults.

      And do you think her referring to me was a reflection of lack of knowledge, or more like how you actually refer to me? Most of the time I think of you, you're Canis, the rest is your actual name.
      I thought that was interesting, too. There's some duality there because on DV I tend to think "NewArtemis" most of the time, but then real name some of the time. But when interacting with your DC, I always think real name. Same deal when we're gaming, that's always real name. Unless it's Age of Empires, in which case you're "that lady who just killed everybody on the battlefield with uppercuts". Anyway, I found it interesting that the "dream guide" chose the name that I don't tend to use when referring to your DC.

      Now that you mention this, I'm curious what name I'll use after you do a werewolf transformation!
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