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    1. Super Strength

      by , 12-13-2013 at 05:37 PM
      I was with a couple of "friends" that I never had before. We were at my house which looked more like a cave than a house because it was made of rocks.
      In the room where we hang out, there was this rock table where we would put 4 aluminum cans and a candle and we would light it for "cool" effects I guess.
      After a while, the fire started spreading to all over the room. Everyone just got their blankets and left.
      But my blanket was stuck under this huge rock that I couldn't lift no matter what. I stated panicking and somehow was able to lift up the huge rock and threw it away.
      We got outside to see my house burning down and then I woke up.
      Categories
      non-lucid , memorable
    2. Airport Security Check in my School

      by , 12-13-2013 at 05:12 PM
      I remember(ed) 3 dreams today: 2 normal ones and 1 LD;

      Here is the second of the normal dreams:

      After class, I wanted to leave school.
      Only problem is I had to go past the janitor, who strangely controlled everyone like they do in airports.
      The thing is I didn't have my passport with me, which was needed.
      At this point I really panicked, knowing I wouldn't be able to get home.
      So I tried to get past the "security check" anyway.
      So after I put my school bag in the X-Ray thingy the guy asked my if I had my passport.

      But then I woke up...

      I don't remember the *plot/setting* of the other 2 dreams though.

      Ok I forgot the LD for the competition:
      The 'setting' of my lucid dream was some small playground in the Netherlands (In Uithuizermeeden I think), where I was in the holidays and that I still remember because I was there every summer as a child.
      Sadly I don't remember how I got there, I seem to remember LDs way better than normal ones.
      I tried to stabilize,
      but I nearly immediatly woke up :-S

      Updated 12-14-2013 at 04:52 PM by 60757 (Missing LD for competition)

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      Uncategorized
    3. Baby Dreams

      by , 12-13-2013 at 04:16 PM
      I have had a whole bunch of baby related dreams in the last few weeks. I'll share a brief summary of the few that I remember.

      1. I was taking care of a baby girl who was a few months old. I was stressed when I couldn't remember when I last fed her. To make it worse I wasn't even sure what to feed her.

      2. I was helping take care of a friend's baby boy. He was tiny (only about 6 inches long) and could fit in my hand.

      3. I was seriously considering adopting 3 little Navajo boys who were about 3-4 years old. Each would be coming from a different place, but the timing was such they would all be arriving together. I really wanted to do this, although the thought crossed my mind that I wouldn't be able to kayak as much.
      Tags: baby
      Categories
      non-lucid
    4. 2 crappy dreams

      by , 12-13-2013 at 04:14 PM (This is my DJ, feel free to comment whatever you want.)
      Yesterday I went to sleep like 3.30 I think and programmed an alarm for like 7.30. I wanted to try a theory, when I woke up I was already dreaming, but I can't remember much, It was all kinda foggy and in sepia colors. I remember seeing my grandpa doing exercises. I woke up and kept sleeping. Late in the morning I woke up naturally several times, but I can't remember those dreams, only the last one. I was with a bunch of friends (and not so friends) from my school, I haven't seen most of them in a year or maybe more. This was a dream sign, but I didn't catch it. I remember someone was cooking. A LOT, I mean there was maybe 15 or 20 different dishes,all different. Then I felt something in my throat and couldn't swallow, I start coughing and then woke up. I was sleeping on my belly and had a lot of saliva in my pillow... Too bad I can't LD lately

      Updated 12-13-2013 at 04:16 PM by 66738

      Categories
      non-lucid , dream fragment
    5. Little Girl

      by , 12-13-2013 at 01:26 PM (Xanous' Dream Journal)
      #249 - DILD - 4:49AM

      So I was listening to some crappy dreaming podcast and they mentioned mirror meditation to view past lives. I looked it up and it all sounded like something I wouldn't actually do but I thought why not try in a lucid dream? So that was my task for this one.

      The first thing I remember is walking on a street on a warm sunny day. I suddenly hear a loud wet fart coming from the street drainage system. I laugh and assume its connected to a bathroom some place. The smell is horrible. As I try stepping over the gutter, I fall face first in the street. My movements feel sluggish and slow. As I lay there with one cheek on the warm asphalt I think this sensation feels familiar and I am missing something important. Before I realize its a dream I am able to walk again.

      I make my way into a house. I still smell shit and wonder if its me. I go into a bathroom and check myself. I'm good so I make to leave. There's a cat in there wanting out but put it in and start to close the door. As I do, I notice a bowl on the counter full of cat shit. I wonder if that is the source of the smell and lean in to check. I sniff and decide that has to be it. I close the door then pause. I realize how odd it is to have cat shit in a bowl so I open the door again to take another look but the bowl is now gone.

      I become lucid and remember my mirror task. Conveniently, its a bathroom so I look up and see myself in a very large mirror. I stare at my face waiting for it to change but it just looks blurry. Then, I ask, "Who was I before?" My entire reflection fades out and I see my face on another smaller person to the right. As I watch my face morphs in to a little girl who looks just a little bit like me but not anyone I could recognize. She is shirtless and has long brown hair in a ponytail. I gasp, "I was a little girl!"

      She turns and walks out so I look for my reflection and it reappears. I worry that the dream will destablize and I really didn't expect for that goal to go so fast, so to stabilize while I think of something, I clap my hands and just watch my reflection while I think. I notice a few times my reflection was actually a little slower than my dream self. I laugh a little but mostly ignore that little dream hiccup. Then, I realize I too am shirtless and begin to feel very naked. So for fun, I stand on the counter to see my entire body. I am even more shocked when I have a vag! At first I freak a little and feel for my penis but all I feel is vag. Not just vag but it feels very small. I rub it a little but get no pleasure from it. Then I decide this is a all a joke and I laugh out loud. I say "I'm a girl."

      I turn to the open bathroom door and see a dude walking by. I spread it and shout, "Hey! I'm a girl!" He ignores me but I briefly get some OpheliaBlue ideas. I think I don't really want to go there. Besides this is all too funny for that. I walk down a hallway with my naked hairy man body and little girl vagina shouting, ,"Hey, Look at me. I'm a girl." I turn a corner and blindly enter some room. Both of my daughters are playing and they freeze when they see me. The look of horror on their faces makes me pause. I have that awkward moment of inaction and I suddenly feel completely embarrassed. After a moment I slowly back away saying nothing.
      Thankfully, my wife rolls over waking me up.
      Tags: galantamine
      Categories
      lucid
    6. Two Cheerleaders

      by , 12-13-2013 at 12:57 PM (Xanous' Dream Journal)
      I had an LD during the first hour of sleep but stupid me didn't try to recall or DJ it. I was so sleepy that I didn't even care. Basically, I fell asleep with a mantra and started noticing HI or what I thought was HI. I realized I must be dreaming. All I can recall was running around some neighbourhood exploring.

      #248 - WILD - 4:00AM

      I wake from a dream and hold still to DEILD. The vibes come almost right away but I realize my wife has an elbow in my side and it bothers me so I adjust breaking my DEILD.

      I get comfortable and WILD. Soon I start getting motions with no vibes. I spend a lot of time surging forward and up and down at incredible speeds. The "G Forces" gets me stomach with each surging to the point that my whole body tenses up and its almost uncomfortable. All the while I see multicoloured geometric shapes and hear a strange electronic stumping sound. I hold on and enjoy the ride but really want to get dreaming.

      I begin to see a projection on the wall of my bedroom and all the geometric shapes are now on that. Soon it morphs into a blurry scene with people so I reach forward and press into it. There is a lot of resistance but I manage to get in. I look around but everything is a blurry mess and it all collapses.

      I don't wake up but return to my bed. I begin to feel horny and suddenly I see two cheerleaders cheering in front of an audience in a GYM. They look old enough and I go for one. Long story short, I tackle her and lift her skirt and go at it. The other walks by and I grab her ankle pulling her to me. I then give her oral while doing the other. I stop myself just before this turns into a wet dream. I'm a little disgusted myself.

      Suddenly I'm back in bed. I think to just get up and walk. There is a little resistance but I manage. I kick myself for not trying this in the first place. I realize I feel extremely wet though I think its probably just because of the idea of a wet dream. I am in some strange studio apartment and see a bathroom door. Some woman passes in front of me but I ignore her.
      I wake up.
      Tags: galantamine
      Categories
      lucid
    7. Fake shared dreaming (LD #62)

      by , 12-13-2013 at 12:29 PM (Lucid Time!)
      Fragments (Don't really care for 'em)

      I was climbing a water-slide made out of sand. I don't know how that works either. The water-slide was in the woods behind my neighborhood.

      My subdivision had been replaced with some sort of beach area. There was a river running where the road used to be. The beach had a lot of broken glass on it, but all of it had been eroded by the waves and made into round stones. (Y'know beach glass.)
      Different areas had different colors of beach grass. A dream character was explaining to me that the different colors can symbolize different things.

      I was in the hunger games universe. (Agian?! I don't even like the hunger games.) And there was this tradition that if you light a lot of candles the night before the tributes are picked, you won't get picked for your district. We had this big chandelier thing covered in lit candles so that I wouldn't be picked as tribute tomorrow.


      I can't remember how I got lucid, but I was in the baseball diamond at the front of my neighborhood. I think the house that was closest to it was a little odd. The other thing that I recall was that there were dark storm clouds overhead.
      S was there. He told me this was a shared dream. We decided we wanted to have a flying competition.
      I did my old method of flying that worked surprisingly. (Not focus flying.) I held out both of my hands and jets of fire formed in my hands. (Though it was a red fire, not a blue one.)
      S mimicked me. He held out his hands and started flying too. I was ascending slowly, but he was going even slower. Once he realized I was winning, he somehow changed the flames in his hand to a green color and started going about three times as fast, he passed me in altitude.
      I turned my flames green. I started moving up faster than him again, and started catching up.
      He started changing his flames slowly from green to blue to purple, and continued accelerating. I changed mine to purple and caught up with him. We were in the grey storm clouds now, but we still had a general idea of where the ground was.
      He was getting frustrated, and turned himself into a ball of purple fire. He began to loop around and head back toward the ground. I too turned myself into a ball of purple fire and looped toward the ground.
      We dived twoard the ground, and we both pulled up before hitting it, only to see that there were a pair of large trees blocking each of our paths. S hit his first, landing with his stomach and he slid down it sort of like when a cartoon character hits a glass wall.
      I was somehow able to phase through the tree I was about to hit.


      I had an FA from the shared dream. S was asleep in a sleeping bag on my bedroom floor. I was in my bed.
      I went to wake him up and ask him if he had the shared ream with me. He held out his phone and started snapping pictures of me. I tried to stop him, but he still took quite a few photos.
      He then actually got out of the sleeping bag, and was really angry. He was taking the photos because he had some app on his phone that would take famous scenes from movies and replace the faces of the characters with the faces of whoever you took pictures of. And all of mine looked really bad because I flinched away from the camera. The movie theme was star wars.
      I asked him about the shared dream and he said that he had experienced everything the same as me. He told me I won the flying completion because he didn't know how to phase through the tree.


      That day I asked S if he had recalled the other end of the dream. He said no.

      Updated 08-27-2014 at 08:30 PM by 53527

      Categories
      lucid , dream fragment
    8. Car Inappropriate Naming

      by , 12-13-2013 at 12:14 PM
      Dec 12 2013
      To bed at 10pm

      4:00am Car Inappropriate Naming:

      My mum and stepfather and my husband and I and our boys were on vacation somewhere and had three cars with us out of some reason, and all three were in a shop getting repaired. I was going to pick the first of them up to see if it was fixed, and then we were going to pick up the other ones soon. I had the sense that our vacation was ending.

      Out of some reason my mum jokingly referred to the car I was picking up using my stepmother's name. It bothered me, but I said nothing at first. Then I thought about it, and thought I better explain that it bothered me, but how to phrase it without overreacting and not being mean to my mom? I wound up saying "If you have to nickname a car after my stepmother, could it be somebody else's car? It bothered me when you referred to my car using her name." My mother was apologetic, and I was not sure whether I had prased that well.

      Fragment:

      All I remember of another fragment was that I was telling to someone that there are worse things in life than this.

      I returned to bed around 4:20 hoping to WBTB, tried to WILD, and failed to really fall asleep again, though I was close to drifting off at some point.

      Updated 12-13-2013 at 12:34 PM by 61501

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      Uncategorized
    9. Second lucid dream!

      by , 12-13-2013 at 11:24 AM
      So this is my second ever lucid dream I had last night. After my first lucid I stopped trying for a while thinking they would start to come naturally. Anyway I'm back in full now so here's what happened!

      I am walking through the snow in the countryside with a woman from my work from work. All of a sudden it starts snowing heavily and I realize I am dreaming. do my usual RC of pinching my nose and I can still breath! Excitedly I close my eyes and say aloud to myself "it's time to fly!" I open my eyes again and I am floating high up in the air. I zoom around really fast flying over fields and mountains feeling the wind in my hair and my belly drop as I dive and climb through the air. I land in a little cavern underneath one of the mountains and find an opaque glass sphere. I remember I wanted to try telekinesis the next time I was lucid and I manage to throw it just using my mind.
      Next I decide I want to create something so I imagine into existence a small button on the side of a mountain which appears. When I press it a race track pops out of the ground bellow around the mountain. I quickly lose interest in the race track and after flying around some more I lose lucidity and wake up.

      Wasn't the most exciting lucid I could have hoped for but still fun! Hope to have some more soon.

      Thanks for reading,
      Sam.
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      Uncategorized
    10. First Lucid!!!

      by , 12-13-2013 at 11:24 AM
      Hey guys,

      This is my first post on the forum as I didn't think there was much point even posting until I had my first lucid.
      Anyway for about a month now I have been doing reality checks (the one I do most is holding my nose to see if I can breath.) Before, I hadn't had much success apart from feeling a bit of SP setting in
      HOWEVER... Last night I was so tired I went straight to bed and didn't bother trying to WILD as usual or anything.
      After falling asleep I started to have a REALLY vivid dream about being in a computer simulation.
      In the simulation I was fighting this massive burning living statue while falling off a building. The next thing I know I am walking through an alleyway and over a bridge but I keep bumping into old school friends I haven't seen in years which was obviously odd.
      The next thing I know I have woken up in my bathroom at home but for I decide to pinch my nose to test for a false awakening and... I can breath and I become lucid! I run back to my dream bed and close my eyes saying when I open them I will be in a new dream scene and I am instantly taken to a beautiful Forrest somewhere in snowy mountains.
      To be honest I was a bit skeptical about how realistic LDs are supposed to feel but the experience felt overwhelming real. I feel a cold mist in the air and can smell the pine trees. My vision is sharp and in focus too. I decide the thing I want to do most is fly so I jump into the air and soar above the trees like it's the most natural thing in the world. The sky is all sorts of beautiful colors and I can feel the air rushing through my hair.
      I remember that LDs don't last long and that I need to make the most of it. I shout out to the dream "Show me something interesting!" all of a sudden a load of paintings are shown in front of my face. Abstract ones, one of them being a giant fish trying to kiss the planet! I cant remember the rest... After a while the dream gets shaky and I can tell its disappearing so I spin around in a circle to try and repair it but I wake up in my bed BUT again I decide to pinch my nose and find I am still dreaming!!!
      2 false awakenings caught in one night! This time I just close my eyes and find myself in a porch. I open the door but I just run into another door. After running through about 5 doors in a row I tell myself that the next door will take me somewhere interesting. I open the door and I am on the roof of a house in Persia (or some other hot dessert city) and someone tells me the government are injecting a worm into peoples ears so that if they laugh at unapproved things their heads explode! The next thing I know I am Thor from the Avengers and am flaying towards the city to save people (Along with an Arabian man that has just turned into the Hulk!) After flying through the city I end up fighting Joe Perry (From Aerosmith!) who is throwing electrified tiles at me... Anyways after that I wake up and instantly write down details on my phone which I have ready for writing in.
      The thing is the more I started waking up the more the dream started to feel like a distant memory and the feelings of realness faded although I KNOW at the time it felt as real as waking life...
      Now I know I can do it and how real the dreams feel I am inspired to try again and again.

      Thanks for reading.

      Sam.
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    11. Telekinesis again…

      by , 12-13-2013 at 09:41 AM
      Morning of December 13, 2013. Friday.



      This is another dream about a “dream power”, the most common ones for me being continuous telekinesis and hovering as if there is no gravity to speak of relating to the human body only (as nothing else floats). Hovering usually brings about very vivid and full lucidity. Telekinesis, on the other hand, does not usually bring about anything other than semi-lucidity, yet with an orientation that the power is also “real” in real life.

      This is a longer dream, but keeps repeating the same scenarios where I simply bring a white glass mug on a table up into the palm of my right hand by mental will alone. My sister Marilyn watches at times, seeming only slightly surprised. This is an effortless dream power for the most part, much like hovering – which simply requires lifting both legs up slightly and remaining in the air, and from there, actually flying.

      The effect, when it comes to objects, is very much like a trick I had done in real life years ago, where a rubber-band (fixed within the cuff of a shirt) is used to bring something into your hand. The speed and force is very realistic in my dream.

      In this particular dream, I test various distances, even from across the room, and am successful at it. I almost cannot even see the object from where I am guiding it swiftly through the air from, but it still works in all instances. This dream is mostly with the white glass mug. In other dreams, I had spent most of the time willing doors closed or open with equal success. There is no “shadow play” in this one (as is often the case) as I am only vaguely aware it is a dream – yet, again, somehow still in regards to practicing a supposedly real ability.

      In the last part of my dream, I go outside and yet am still able to will the mug to fly out from the house to where I am (about two houses away and on the sidewalk) and straight into my hand. My family is to my right on Loomis Street. There is a confused man with a gun in the middle of the street as we watch from the sidewalk on the western side of the street.

      With little effort, I make him drop the gun by directing some sort of telekinetic force at it - and then cause it to slide along the street, continuously just out of his reach as he chases after it upon each longer slide (of about five feet). I do this about six or seven times and it gets to be a bit annoying, as he is still within nearly attainable distance of the gun at times. Then, a somewhat mentally “slow” man walking from the north looks in our direction. I mentally will him to pick up the gun (as he seems to have little mental will of his own) and shoot the other man in both feet (just enough to take off a bit of the outside). Nothing much happens after that other than the other man tending to the pain in his feet and no longer posing a threat.

      Updated 06-19-2015 at 06:50 PM by 1390 (Enhancement)

      Tags: telekinesis
      Categories
      dream fragment
    12. 4 dream, 4 failures..

      by , 12-13-2013 at 08:04 AM
      This night my alarm clock auto-snoozed as it should. I woke 4 times, having 4 dream. Non of them lucid tho..

      All 4 times I woke without moving, and then trying to enter my dream being lucid... However, each time I tried, I just fell asleep..
      Once time, I actually tried to keep thinking "I know I'm just laying here.... Stay awake, stay awake". I fell asleep all the times tho..

      The good thing is: I can fall asleep easily. I can wake up in the night without moving.

      Improvement: I will have to find a way to enter the dream. Imo, DEILDs require only 3 skills/things to do. 1. Fall asleep. 2. Wake up without moving or opening your eyes. 3. ENTER the dream. Of course then you need to stay lucid stabilize and so on. But the 3 first steps are definitely the most important. It seems I have the 2 first down, now I need to enter the dream!!

      What I will try tomorrow night is different techniques to enter my dream.
      I will try to just form the dream environment shortly after I wake up.
      I will try to "wait it out" until hc kick in, sit up,and RC. Last time I WILDed, I experienced hc, sat up, and I was lucid. Let's try to recreate that!
      However, I'm more into creating the environment myself, would be more interesting. Let's see what's gonna happen tonight!
      Categories
      non-lucid , side notes
    13. weird dream about the beatles

      by , 12-13-2013 at 06:27 AM (This is my DJ, feel free to comment whatever you want.)
      In waking life I asked to my father why always Ringo was the most underestimated musician in the band (I know the answer) and like 5 hours later I went to sleep, that night I dreamed that I was in a small wooden cottage and Paul was listening to music and Lennon was playing guitar right next to him. I go over there and Lennon says hi to me, I salute to paul and lennon and we start talking about something, then paul started rolling a joint and a black bassist player with afro hairstyle appears... they start jamming and I tell them that I have a recurrent dream with them. This is false btw but in the dream I had that feeling that I've been there before... maybe i can't remember them.
      After this I think I lost every lucidity I had. I remember someone got out of this little house and everything got mad and random, I saw everything in 3rd person and also in 2D. I saw an old woman in the snow and the entry to the cottage got blocked by a wall of ice, but Iron man destroyed the wall.. everything is just confusing now. I appear somewhere else, some kind of dungeon, in a big hall made of stones and there is someone who calls me Dylan (not my name, but then I remembered Stan from American Dad) I woke up happy about the dream involving the Beatles, but don't like the rest of the dream. Maybe I can't remember some parts. First I was telling Paul, Lennon and this big black bass player that i've been dreaming lately about them and suddenly I remember that lady coming out of the house... something is missing, maybe a LD...
      Categories
      non-lucid
    14. Art

      by , 12-13-2013 at 12:20 AM (Lucid Time!)
      I recall a fragment from the night before last where I was going to use my dream guide as an art reference, and S was there. This dream seemed to be a continuation of that. I was showing some of my art to S, and he was liking it. I got to several pages that were all failed attempts at me drawing my dream guide. (In RL, I'm not good at drawing people.) S thought they were really good and wanted to see more, but I told him to give me my sketchbook back.

      Updated 08-27-2014 at 08:29 PM by 53527

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      non-lucid
    15. Dead, undead, and the apocalypse

      by , 12-12-2013 at 11:45 PM
      Fragments - song lyrics misusing the word indigent ("all the charm indigent in you" - I assume it was aiming for 'inherent'); and later, a fragment involving a tribe called Indogen, immortal creatures that were 'judged unworthy by god' and sentenced to stay in this land (wherever the dream was currently set) instead of continuing on their 'journey to the sun.'

      An apocalypse scenario; I've run through this scenario two times already and failed both times. First, I have to leave this building quickly, and avoid getting involved with this group of people; that was the mistake I made last time. Second, I can't forget to (something to do with a virus and immunity or a vaccine or similar); that was the mistake I made the first time around. Third, I have to track down three men: one's a scientist whose theories are closely related to the events that are about to happen; the second is a specific doctor.

      When I leave the building through the back door, the storyline changes; I'm caught up in some kind of street performance going on just outside, and a woman in the crowd sees me and recognizes me, and comes up to thank me for something I'd done for her in the past involving her ring.

      Another apocalypse scene then: a woman who's carrying her son, looks around 3, is begging me to take him with me.

      Rumpelstiltskin. There's a horrible smell coming from somewhere in the castle, and finally I've found the source: there's a dead body, someone who broke into the castle and got himself caught in one of the traps designed to stop such intruders from stealing my things. Belle and I have been calling back and forth as we were trying to figure out where that smell was coming from, and I'm pleased I found it before she did. I call to her now, telling her that I've found it and am taking care of it, without letting her know what it was. I magic it away.

      Julia's ranting to me about something to do with the news, full of righteous anger. There's some important event going on in the world, some tragedy or disaster or outrage, and she doesn't feel they're covering it well; she's specifically talking about CNN's failure to report on real issues. I'm happy about all this - happy about her righteous anger, that is, not the tragedy or whatever it was - I love how she cares so deeply about these events that I've come to see as commonplace.

      There's a girl, a witch, stopping in a school hallway to stand before the memorial to a recently-dead classmate, covered in flowers and candles. The dead girl was also a witch, although this isn't common knowledge, so although she didn't know the dead girl well, she takes this very personally. She's thinking about how she has something that belongs to the girl's killer, and about the girl's mother, and about poison. The candles burn down to stubs as she looks at them, and various other things around her start to catch fire; a boy who was close with the dead girl had been watching nearby, and when he sees this, he starts to run away. She stops him, corners him. He asks what she is; she says he'll never know, but that since he failed his friend, now there's someone else he has to protect - her.

      A woman is introducing two of her friends to each other outside a mausoleum, introducing one of them by the nickname she calls her, "Little N." It's N's family mausoleum they're standing in front of. N introduces herself as "Anekhet (last name sounds something like Sastemony) - or Little N." From her tone, which is pleasant, it's still clear that the Little N nickname is a name for only this particular friend to use, not the man she's being introduced to. The man introduces himself with a bow as her ancestor and the founder of this town, and a "comocido" - which in the dream seemed to be a word related to suicide or homicide, a word that indicated the specific way in which he was killed, hundreds of years ago. Anekhet is surprised but not particularly thrown by this.

      Integra is watching a map showing enemy vessels approaching England, trying to calculate how much time she has left, torn between two objectives, and finally she dispatches Alucard to a certain ship, to destroy it if he doesn't hear otherwise after a certain amount of time. Alucard drops out of the sky onto that ship, and in his head he's intensely focused on the form he needs to take at any given time, it's almost like psyching himself up, or like playing a role.