Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

I was in a forest. I looked around. It was peaceful. I walked around a bit. I saw a man sitting on the ground by a tree. He seemed to be gazing off into space. I wondered who it was. I didn't recognize him. I walked over towards him. A hand on my shoulder stopped me. I turned around to see Altaïr standing behind me. He told me not to get too close to the man. I asked why not. Altaïr said because he is one of those Templar shits. Just because Q didn't dress him as one didn't change that fact. I looked back at the man. He hadn't moved a bit. Was he meditating? I found it hard to picture a Templar meditating peacefully. I told Altaïr I can take care of myself. I went closer to the man. He was gazing off into space. I got directly in front of him. He seemed to be looking right through me. He had a blank look on his face. His breathing was the only sign that he was alive. His breathing and an occasional blink. I moved my hand in front of his face. No response. I touched him on the shoulder. No response. I moved his head to make him look me in the eyes. He was still looking straight through me… and no response. Altaïr had come closer. I asked what was wrong with the man. He said it was a Templar, who cares what is wrong with him. I gave Altaïr a dirty look.

Q appeared in a flash of white light. He was looking at Altaïr. He asked Altaïr what he had said about leaving the Templar alone. Altaïr said the idiot didn't even know he was there. I asked Q what was wrong with the Templar. Q specifically used the name Malkus. He placed emphasis on the name while looking at Altaïr. He said Malkus had been unresponsive for a while now. Q said Malkus had been having nightmares about being taken by that demon and had seemed paranoid that we were going to turn him over to the demon. He said after a while of having nightmares every time he slept and seeming unable to believe we weren't going to turn him over to the demon he had gone completely unresponsive. Q said he also thought it was time for Altaïr to listen to a nice song. I looked up at Altaïr. Q said not here. He said he didn't want to have Malkus happen to snap out of his trance only to see Altaïr standing over him. Altaïr said he could make sure that rotten Templar never snapped out of his trance. Q gave Altaïr a dirty look and said to take care of our business on the moon.

Note: In spite of the fact I was talking to both Q and Altaïr about a Templar I somehow managed to avoid becoming lucid. I was accepting all of this as being completely normal.

Q snapped his fingers. There was a flash of light around me. But I didn't end up on the moon. Instead of being on the moon I was in some kind of futuristic city that looked quite rundown. I did a double take. Q had said something about the moon… and where was Altaïr? How was I supposed to play a song for Altaïr if he wasn't here? I walked down the street a bit. I spotted a figure in the street. I recognized him quickly. Damion! But hadn't I already seen Damion in a previous dream? A previous dream? That would make this a dream. I was dreaming! I tried to fly and found I could do it. I finally became lucid.

Damion was talking to me now. I told him to put a sock in it. I told him he was the last person I wanted to see every night. He said there was no way I would get rid of him that easily. And the fact I thought I could just went to show what a fool I…" BANG! Thud. A gunshot came from somewhere off to the left. I couldn't see any shooter. But the shot was dead on. I couldn't see where the bullet entered Damion's head but I could sure see where it exited. It exited in a blast of tissue. And Damion collapsed. I couldn't contain myself. I started laughing. I hadn't had to do anything! Just bang, and he's dead! I looked back at the buildings where a sniper could have been concealed. I waved in thanks. Any enemy of Damion was probably a friend of mine. Now I wanted to get back to Altaïr. I focused on Through the Never and on finding Altaïr. A portal opened and I used it.

On the other side I was in a forest. It was the biodome on the moon. Altaïr was there. He looked surprised to see me. He asked if I was ok. He asked where I had gone. I said I had just gone to bear witness to the death of Damion. I said someone else killed him this time, but it was sweet to watch. Altaïr asked who had killed him. I said I didn't know. He had been sniped. I laughed again at the memory. In mid sentence he had been sniped. I was hoping someone else would remember that dream and identify themselves as the sniper. I wanted to thank that person directly. Altaïr said he was glad I was ok. He said he hadn't known what to think when I hadn't made it here with him. I remembered Q telling me to use a song on Altaïr. I wasn't sure why. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with him. I figured even if there's nothing wrong a bit of nice pure positive energy can't hurt anyone. So I focused on the song Touch My Heart from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack. The song played and golden energy flowed around and through Altaïr. When the song was over I was feeling a bit disoriented. I thought I was about to wake up. I felt Altaïr put his arms around me. I was in Altaïr's arms when I woke and found the only thing around me was my blanket.

10/20/09 Tuesday

Note: This isn't a complete dream. It is just a fragment of a dream that came back to me.
I was on a stage near the moon tower. There were colorful lights everywhere. Basara was there with me. I saw there were other musicians on the stage with me. I think one of them might have been Nomad and one might have been MoSh. I couldn't be sure of that, it was just a feeling I had. There was a crowd of people standing around the stage watching us. I was focusing on and singing the song Silent Lucidity by Queensrÿche. I was using the song in the hope that some of the people watching us were actual dreamers and the song would get them thinking about lucid dreaming. Once they were thinking about lucid dreaming they would be more likely to do a reality check and become lucid. The song played loudly across the crowd. The song finished and I noticed a lot of people in the crowd were talking amongst themselves. I don't remember anything after that…

I'm sorry i don't remember you helping you get lucid... Be sure to return the favor someday

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

I'm sorry i don't remember you helping you get lucid... Be sure to return the favor someday

Apparently I have helped her become lucid many times, even in dreams we both remember, but I never remember telling her that. I am trying to figure out why that is.

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

Apparently I have helped her become lucid many times, even in dreams we both remember, but I never remember telling her that. I am trying to figure out why that is.

Maybe that's just the way my subconscious tries to tell me to get lucid... by making me hear someone in the area tell me it's a dream!

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

Maybe that's just the way my subconscious tries to tell me to get lucid... by making me hear someone in the area tell me it's a dream!

I was wondering if it's what I perceive as lucid behavior that you perceive as me actually speaking to you.

I fell asleep using my light/sound machine to meditate. My focus was to locate Specialis Sapientia and take him to the moon tower. I fell asleep into a lucid dream heading for the moon so I could have a set location to start from…

I found myself on the moon. I was alone there. I figured I would go try to find Specialis Sapientia and bring him to the moon first so I wouldn't get distracted onto something else. I focused on Through the Never and on locating the person who looked like the photo of Specialis Sapientia I had. I had to focus quite hard. Finally a portal opened. I went through the portal wondering if I was going to end up trying to astral project again…

On the other side of the portal I was on a beach. A long expanse of sand with rocky areas at the far distances. I looked around the beach. At first I thought it was abandoned. But I saw a figure on it. I thought for a couple of minutes and then I had an idea. I remembered Specialis Sapientia saying he wants to be a pilot. Maybe he would remember a dream where he actually got to fly something cool. I focused on summoning my Fire Valkyrie to me. It appeared in front of me. I headed over to the figure on the beach. He was not far from me. I touched him on the shoulder.

"Are you Specialis Sapientia?" I asked.

"That's my user name," he said hesitantly.

"It's Raven Knight," I said, "Do a reality check. You're dreaming. Come over here. I've got something to show you."

Specialis Sapientia followed me over to my Fire Valkyrie. He was staring at the ship. He seemed to like it. I asked if he wanted to fly it. I thought that would be a memorable experience. I told him he could fly it if he wanted. The onboard computer would navigate to the moon. I took hold of Specialis Sapientia's hand and we flew up to the cockpit. The cockpit opened and we landed inside. Specialis Sapientia took the pilot's seat. I couldn't see exactly what was going on up there but I figured either he already knew something about how to fly or the onboard computer was giving him instructions. We lifted off into the sky.

Now we went for quite a ride. High, low, through canyons, low altitude over the water, and through a variety of areal maneuvers that probably aren't even possible in any normal plane. Finally we gained altitude and left the atmosphere. We flew pas the moon as if it wasn't even there. I commented to Specialis Sapientia that we had missed the moon. He said he wasn't ready to go to the moon yet. We headed out into space and increased in speed. We were going so fast it took almost no time at all to reach Mars. We then flew down low over Mars and maneuvered low over the surface of the planet. Around mountains, through canyons. We were kicking up clouds of red dust in our wake. Specialis Sapientia was having fun now. We finally flew back up into space and headed back towards the moon.

We reached the moon in short order and Specialis Sapientia took a flight around the geography of the moon before we finally approached the tower. We hovered just outside the biodome. Specialis Sapientia was looking at the tower. Big yellow letters on the side read, "Welcome to the Moon!"

"That's it," I told him, "Now all you have to do is remember this dream. I hope I also do. I think I am about to wake up so we'd better land."

We landed the Fire Valkyrie and Specialis Sapientia climbed out of the open cockpit. He just jumped to the surface of the moon. He was looking at the tower when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I was on the moon. I was not lucid. Finding myself on the moon has become a common place occurrence and thus it is no longer a reason to do a reality check! I walked along the surface of the moon. I looked behind me and made note of the footprints I was leaving in the moon dust. They seemed so crisp and clear. There was no wind in the emptiness of space. But still I was breathing fine. I was thinking my self contained life support system was working great. Then I noticed there was weather on the moon. There was a tornado forming ahead of me. It was sucking up the moon dust in a spectacular display. It was also heading straight for me. I thought I should get out of the way. But it was too late for that. I was quickly caught in the tornado and sucked up into it… and through a portal.

I found myself in a place that looked oddly familiar. It was a rundown futuristic type city. I looked around. I wondered how I had gotten to a post apocalyptical city from the moon. There was a figure not too far off. I thought I knew who it was. "Damion, you prick!" I called out at the figure.

The figure was laughing as he came towards me. I was thinking that if I was seeing Damion then I must be dreaming. I didn't become fully lucid but I did manage to become semi-lucid. I was lucid enough to remember what I had planned on doing. The first step was to piss Damion off.

"Great," I said, "Just what I wanted tonight. A close encounter of the STUPID kind!"

"You are the…" Damion started.

"I mean, are you always this stupid?" I interrupted, "Or do you work extra hard on it just for me?"

"You shut your…" Damion started again, sounding annoyed this time.

"I have seen some idiots in my time," I interrupted, "But you make all of them look smart!"

Damion was getting quite annoyed now. He changed his hands into spears and started swinging them at me. I dodged the attacks and started leading him in the beginnings of a spiral formation.

"What's the problem, Damion?" I asked, "Don't like hearing the truth? Or too stupid to understand it?"

"Shut up!" Damion yelled as he continued attacking. I dodged more attacks and moved into a tighter spiral.

"Your head is too thick," I yelled at Damion.

"You don't know…" Damion tried to say.

"You're built like a stick! Your face makes me sick! You're dumb as a brick!" I continued insulting.

"You're the one who…" Damion started.

"You ain't got no dick!" I added, not letting him respond. He had continued attacking . I had led him just about to the center of the spiral. He was pissed. I still felt under control. The attack was ready to go. Damion shouted something I couldn't even understand.

"You're as ugly as an ox and twice as stupid!" I yelled at Damion.

"Shut up, you BITCH!" Damion yelled as he came in for one final attack. I dodged that attack and moved in for one hard punch to his gut. My cool energy mixed with his hot aura of anger and formed into the signature spiral tornado formed by Ranma Saotome's Hyru Shouten Ha off of the Ranma 1/2 anime series. I said the words because I like the sound, "HYRU SHOUTEN HA!" The whirlwind formed where my punch hit Damion and pulled him way up into the air. He flew out of my sight. I watched after him and I didn't see any more of him. I gave a raspberry in his direction. "Thbbbbbbb!" I was pleased with my Hyru Shouten Ha. Everything around me faded to black as I woke.

are you sure this Damion guy is evil? I did a google search, but I'm not sure who he is, maybe you should at least listen to what he has to say next time? It seems like he is trying to tell you something important.

Originally Posted by Robo

are you sure this Damion guy is evil? I did a google search, but I'm not sure who he is, maybe you should at least listen to what he has to say next time? It seems like he is trying to tell you something important.

I believe Damion is a nightstalker I have encountered in the past and I have no doubt in mind that he is evil. That and then there is the fact he keeps kidnapping me from wherever I may be and attacking me. And his energy is dark. And the name Damion is actually from a person I knew in high school who was a complete jerk to me. I use the name Damion because I can't spell his real name.

I fell asleep with my light/sound machine on. I focused my WILD on going to pick up Allison. I thought going on a Star Gate adventure might be something she would remember. So that was my goal. It didn't work out as planned…

When my WILD got going I found myself on the moon. That wasn't where I had intended to go. I was in the biodome. I was also near the outer wall. There was an opening in the wall. I figured it was a gate for people to enter through if they appeared outside the wall. I saw someone on the other side of a force field blocking the gate. I went over and looked. There was a person who was half cat and half human there.

"Kitty!" I said and pointed at the cat man. I went over and stroked the cat man's silky fur. The cat man looked like he was part leopard. I felt his energy as I was stroking. I recognized it as Nomad. He rolled over on his back and prompted me to rub his belly. His fur was silky. I asked him what he was doing. He said he was the god of nothing. I told him that makes no sense. He said that was exactly his point. I asked what dream drugs he was on. He just laughed. I told him I was going to go find Allison to take her on a Star Gate adventure and asked if he wanted to come. He said he wanted to create nowhere. I said that was the perfect place for the god of nothing to live… nowhere. He laughed and took off. I focused on Through the Never and on finding Allison. A portal quickly opened and I went through.

On the other side I was in a forest. I didn't see Allison anywhere. I wondered where I would find her. It was a pleasant day in the forest and I was enjoying the beauty of it. My lucidity slipped to semi-lucidity.

I looked around a bit and I found Q. He said he had left Nomad to fill out the details of his playground in the middle of nowhere. He chuckled. He snapped his fingers. More people appeared. I looked at the new arrivals. Link, Spike, Sephiroth, Bakura, Basara, and Altaïr. I asked Q where Allison was. Q said Allison wasn't dreaming right now. He said we had other things to do. He said that back in Altaïr's home world Robert's base of operations had been found. He said there were loads of Templars around there, all of them with dark energy. He said our main goal would be to find the source of Robert's dark energy and remove it. He said Link, Spike, Sephiroth, Bakura, and Altaïr could help fight while Basara provided defensive and healing energy. He pointed off in one direction. He said to head that way to approach Robert from the least visible direction. Q disappeared in a flash of white light.

I looked around at the people around me. Spike asked if I was lucid. Altaïr asked if I was going to charge their weapons with my lightning. I thought that sounded like a good idea. I first formed Witchblade into a sword and then used Battery by Metallica to summon a bolt of lightning. It split up and charged all of our swords and Basara's guitar. We all headed in the direction Q had indicated. The forest seemed to be getting darker as we traveled. It was almost as dark as night when we found a black stone wall in our path. I floated up to the top of the wall and looked over. I saw Templars patrolling the area. There was a fortress in the middle of the walled area. There was absolutely no cover surrounding the fortress. It was obviously made to be impossible to approach without being seen. I wanted us to get as close to the fortress as we could without being discovered. I told the others that a disguise was in order. I used Of Wolf and Man by Metallica to transform all of us into Templars. It might not work very long, but it might help get closer.

When the coast was clear we all floated over the wall and landed inside. There were seven of us. That was a good number to imitate having our own patrol group. That way we could try to keep our distance from the real Templars. We made like a patrol and moved at a constant pace around the fortress. I was looking for a way in. We finally came to the side with the main gates on it. The gates stood open and there were Templar guards on both sides of it. I focused on a cloak covering all of us and hiding our true energy. I didn't know if that would help. Our energy might be hidden but the dark energy would not be there. We turned and headed for the gate. Before we got there a new patrol came out. Maybe we'd lucked out and it was time to change things up anyway. The guards paid no attention to the emerging Templar patrol. That patrol was gone by the time we started going inside. I saw the guards eyeing us closely.

"Stop!" one of them called out, "Int… glurk…" he had spoken as Altaïr was passing by him and he now had a sparking hidden blade in him. The other guard didn't have a chance to speak before he had Link's sparking sword running him through. Both were consumed by white lightning. We hurried into the fortress and found the controls for the gate right inside. We sealed it closed and broke the control lever to effectively keep the patrolling Templars from joining in when the fight started inside.

It seemed the usefulness of the disguises was done since the Templars in the fortress would be able to identify us by our energy. I eliminated the disguises… it had felt a bit dirty to look like a Templar. Now to find Robert and his source of dark energy. The interior of the fortress was quite dark. It was lit by torches but the walls, floor, and ceiling were all nearly black and seemed to absorb whatever light the torches produced. We followed the main path in a ways until it split into three paths. One going straight, one left, and one right. All of our weapons were charged with white energy so we split up. Basara pointed at a vent in the ceiling. He said he was going to try to get somewhere where his music would be heard throughout the fortress. Sephiroth and Bakura went right. Link and Spike went left. That left me standing there with Altaïr. We went straight forward.

We entered a huge inner chamber. There was what looked like a door frame in the middle of the room on a raised platform. The platform was surrounded by Templars. No one had noticed us yet. There was a pole with a black crystal on it sitting a few feet in front of the door frame. Black beams of energy came from the crystal and led to each corner of the door frame. The center of the door frame was a black portal. A single beam of black energy, stronger than the other four, came from the center of that portal and into the crystal, probably re-charging it. It was a self-perpetuating portal. Robert was standing next to the crystal. He drew energy from it and distributed it to the crowd of Templars. As he was distributing the energy he looked around to make sure everyone was receiving it. He spotted us.

"Assassins!" he yelled out, looking a bit surprised but even more pissed, "Kill them!"

As if that was a cue to begin, Basara's music seemed to come from everywhere all around us. That seemed to distract the Templars. He was playing Planet Dance from the Macross 7 anime soundtrack. The Templars didn't stay distracted for long. We were in a big fight. I wondered how we were supposed to fight so many. I felt energized by Basara's song. I was completely surrounded. I did a spin attack like Link on the Legend of Zelda. It was quite effective since I was surrounded. I needed to get to the crystal. That was the main goal. I managed to fight my way through another couple of Templars and I found myself face to face with Link. It looked like at least some of the others had found their way here. The entire room was now in chaos. Basara had finished Planet Dance and moved on to a song entitled Never Say Die from the same soundtrack. His music seemed louder than ever.

I was heading in the direction I thought the raised platform was in. A Templar stepped into my path. I was about to attack him when I noticed he seemed disoriented. He shook his head a couple of times and the blackness faded from his eyes. They were normal now. And he was leaving. He turned and headed for an entrance in the back of the room. I saw the one who had broken off his attack on me wasn't the only one leaving the scene. Basara's music was freeing some of them! I saw a clear path to the power crystal. I went for it. I grabbed it in a hand covered by protective Witchblade armor. I thought touching it directly would be bad. When I grasped it dark energy sparked out all around it and was trying to get at me through my Witchblade armor.

"Put that back, you BITCH!" came a voice behind me. I turned and saw Robert. He was going to attack me but instead he found himself in a sword match with Sephiroth. My first thought was that Robert was officially screwed. As I pulled the power crystal from its position on the pole the beams of dark energy were disrupted and then broken. The portal collapsed. I turned from the door frame and saw Robert seemed to be desperately trying to break away from his fight with Sephiroth to attack me. A couple of Templars ran interference for him and he got away… only to find himself in a fight with Link. He cursed loudly at Link. Basara moved on to another song… Holy Lonely Light from the Macross 7 soundtrack. I noticed the room seemed noticeably brighter than when we had entered. Basara's light energy was filling the room. I saw even more Templars making an exit through the back door. I decided to join them. I called out telepathically to the others that I had the dark shard. I heard them acknowledge that I had it.

I now headed for the back exit where everyone else was exiting. I saw Sephiroth emerge behind me and close behind him was Link. The fleeing Templars cleared a path for us to exit clearly not wanting any further trouble. I didn't want to attack them; I just wanted to leave with the shard. The back exit led to a dead end. I thought of Vegeta from Dragonball Z and did a Final Flash at the wall blasting a large hole in it. We all left through that hole. A wave of converted Templars followed us. Basara's music was even louder outside. The Templar patrols looked mostly confused. A few attacked us but they didn't last long. I looked around me to see if everyone was there. Link… Spike… Sephiroth… Altaïr… Where was Bakura? We couldn't leave Bakura! I was about to go back inside when I saw Bakura come out. Phew… that was a relief. I telepathically called to Basara that we were leaving. I saw Basara fly out of an opening near the highest position of the fortress. He flew down right near us. I used Through the Never and opened a portal to get back to the biodome. The portal opened and we all went through it. It closed immediately behind us.

Q greeted us when we returned. He saw the dark shard in my hand. It was still sparking with dark energy. Q said he would take that and dispose of it properly. He snapped his fingers and sealed it in a white sphere and then took it. He smiled at us and said we should celebrate our victory. Everyone seemed happy to be back and that we had been successful in our mission. I thought I was going to wake up. Everything around me faded to black as I woke.

WOW!

We both had badass epic dreams after coming together, then diverging! Amazing!

I was in a strange place. I looked around to see where I was. It looked like the interior of a temple. It was very ornate and beautiful. I decided I wanted to explore. I looked in my pockets for my cell phone. It wasn't there. I pulled an audible Homer Simpson (D'Oh!) as I had wanted to take pictures of the temple. I walked down a long passage trying to take in everything I could. I wanted to burn these images on my mind so I would be able to remember them later. I didn't want to forget a single detail. I walked down the passage until I entered a much larger chamber. There were a lot of people in the room. They were all bowing on the ground. I looked down at one of them. He didn't respond to me. I tapped him on the shoulder and asked what he was bowing for. He said we were in the presence of the great Jaguar God. He said I should bow. He returned to his bowing position. I wasn't about to bow to some god I've never heard of. I walked down the aisle between the rows of bowing people. I saw a person who looked to be half human and half cat reclined on his back in a throne. It made me think of the Thunder Cats (a cartoon series from the 80's where the main characters were half human / half cat). A couple of pretty girls were feeding him some kind of treats off of a plate. But this situation couldn't be right. I decided to do a reality check. I tried to fly and I succeeded. I landed again, now lucid.

I looked at a couple of the people bowing. They didn't have any perceivable energy. They were just illusions. DC's. I walked closer to the cat man to see if I could identify him. I recognized his energy. It was Nomad. I was about to ask him what was going on when he glanced in my direction. He barely looked at me before going back to lounging. He asked why I wasn't bowing. I told him I thought I made it perfectly clear in a PM that I was not going to bow. He looked over at me, looking closer now. He exclaimed that I was real and said he hadn't realized that. He then greeted me by my name, Raven. He sat up and looked at me. He asked what I had brought him. I said I hadn't brought him anything. He asked if I had no offering for the god of nothing. I said no. He got a dejected look on his face like a chastised dog. I think he was faking the look of rejection. I wondered why I was even here. I had to think a bit. I finally remembered. Something inside me had told me I should use a healing spell on Nomad, that he had some dark energy inside him that had to be eliminated. I told Nomad that actually, I did have an offering. He perked up his ears and looked happy. I climbed up the stairs that led to his throne. I focused on the song Full Moonlight from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack. The song played throughout the room and golden energy flowed through Nomad. The energy did wash some things out. They looked like small black bugs that began crawling away from the throne. Helpful DC's followed the bugs and crushed them under foot. Nomad said that was a great offering, the best one he'd received yet. He got up and hugged me, burying my face in the soft fur on his chest. The fur was soft and silky. He said if I wanted to add something to nowhere to go ahead. I said maybe I should add a nice nothing to nowhere. He said that would be great.

I was thinking there were other things to be done. I asked if he was bored with lying around. I said I hadn't been able to get Allison for the Star Gate dream earlier, so I was going to try again. He asked where I had gone before. I was having a hard time remembering. I said it had something to do with Templars... I was a bit annoyed that I couldn't remember more. Nomad said he wanted to give people crazy dreams they would remember. I said some people might not appreciate someone intruding in their dreams. I said if he'd initially intruded in my dreams without permission my first response would've been to kick his ass. He changed into a jaguar cub and mewed at me. He telepathically asked me if I would've really kicked the ass of a helpless little kitten. The cub was cute. I said probably not. I focused on Through the Never and on getting to Allison. A portal finally opened. I went through it. The jaguar cub followed me. On the other side we were in Allison's apartment. Not the current one, the one she lived in prior to her current one. I looked around for Allison. The jaguar cub started playing with some stuff he found on the floor. He started playing with the cords on an XBox 360. Allison came out and got mad at him. She called him a bad kitty and picked him up. She carried him away from the XBox. While she was still holding him he changed back into a jaguar man. Allison now found herself trying to hold a fully grown man. They fell down in a heap. Allison looked at Nomad in shock. Nomad said she was dreaming, do a reality check. Allison called to Jen to come look at this. Nomad licked her face with a cat tongue. Allison pushed him away with an exclamation of "Eeewww!" Nomad changed back to a jaguar cub and pretended to be dejected again. Allison looked up at me and asked if the cub belonged to me. I said I wouldn't claim ownership of that. He is on his own. The cub got a strange look on his face and then he vanished. I was alone with Allison now. I asked if she'd done her reality check yet. She said no, she hadn't. I told her to do one. Any reality check would do. But before I found out anything about what she was going to do everything faded to black...

But I didn't wake up. Now I was in a bedroom of some kind with Alicia. Alicia was in a bikini. She said she liked my swim suit. She said let's go to the pool. I felt disoriented and I lost my lucidity...

I followed Alicia outside. We were on a cruise ship. There was a huge pool on the ship. I saw there were a couple of diving boards. One low and one really high. I wanted to do the high one. I headed over to it while Alicia laid her blanket down to get some sun. The diving boards were closed. An employee at the base of the ladders said they would be open later. I told Alicia that. We took a walk around the deck of the ship. We looked out over the expanse of ocean. I saw a whale spouting in the distance. Alicia was talking. She was talking about her job. She was bitching about her job. She was bitching about how they always dump all of the work on her and then they complain when it isn't done. She said she just didn't have enough time. I saw some sharks right by the ship. I thought Alicia should throw her boss to the sharks. As if telepathic, Alicia said she wished she could throw her boss to the sharks. We made our way back to the big pool. Alicia laid down for some sun.

I returned to the diving boards. They were open now. But they had moved... before they had been at the end of the pool now they were on the side. And a third board had been added. I noted these differences but stubbornly refused to realize I was dreaming. I climbed to the top of the tallest diving board. Someone behind me was impatient. There was a gate blocking the board from the pool. I asked how I was supposed to get to the pool. The impatient person behind me called me a moron and said the gate would open. He shoved me off the board. The gate opened and I fell into the pool. I went really deep and I hadn't had a chance to take a breath. I breathed shallowly through my nose. I was breathing under water. This didn't seem odd. I was thinking as long as I didn't breathe too deeply my body would filter out the oxygen without taking in the water. I stayed on the bottom of the pool for a bit before coming up. Alicia was hitting on a hot guy now. He looked bored. I wanted to go off the diving board again. I got out of the pool. Everything around me faded to black as I woke.

Epic dreams, as always.

So you aren't even going to try to listen to what Damion has to say? It could be interesting.

please, for me? I'm curious.

Wow! I wish I remembered that dream! Everyone that comes to the temple always calls me on my bullshit. Haha. Thanks for the healing!

Originally Posted by Robo

Epic dreams, as always.

So you aren't even going to try to listen to what Damion has to say? It could be interesting.

please, for me? I'm curious.

That guy is a punk. I am not going to share dreams with him anymore. Maybe Raven will.

Originally Posted by Robo

Epic dreams, as always.

So you aren't even going to try to listen to what Damion has to say? It could be interesting.

please, for me? I'm curious.

Ok. I have gotten rid of most of my anger at him now and I find him more amusing than annoying. He makes me laugh. So if I see him again I will try to see if he has anything to say other than insulting me. After all, it's not as if he can actually hurt me! I can't guarantee I will see him again, but I'll post it if I do.

Thanks raven, I appreciate it

I fell asleep with my light sound machine on. I was focused on meeting Nomad at the moon. I remembered Nomad seemed to think there was something attacking MoSh. So my goal was to meet Nomad on the moon so we could investigate this. I fell asleep and found myself on the moon and lucid…

I was standing outside the biodome. A spaceship landed near me. It opened and then a cat man got out of the ship. He was acting really strange. He was smoking something. It looked like a joint.

"Drugs…" I said, "Seriously? I thought we were going to help MoSh! You can't do that if you're wasted!"

He said he had gotten distracted. He put out the joint and threw it on the ground. I shot him a disapproving look for littering up the moon. I didn't have to say anything. Nomad made his joint disappear. I asked him if he was ready to go check on MoSh. He said yes. I used Through the Never and focused on opening a portal to find MoSh. A portal opened. Selene appeared and went through. A portal opened and Basara came through. He said if there was going to be healing needed he would come along. Nomad and I followed Basara and Selene through the portal.

On the other side we were in a bedroom. I could vaguely make out MoSh. The rest of the room was a bit fuzzy. What was crystal clear was a dark figure standing over MoSh. The dark figure was drawing energy out of MoSh. The figure looked up at me. It was an older man with gray hair in a black suit with a black fedora hat. He was old but he didn't look weak. He had black stuff dripping from his mouth as if he had been eating something out of MoSh. I told the dark man to step away from the bed or prepare to have his ass kicked. He laughed at me in a menacing manner. While I was watching the man Nomad had circled around behind him. Nomad now tackled the man and shoved him through the far wall of the bedroom. I looked over at MoSh. He was surrounded by a dark aura. Basara said he would start the healing but I might be needed outside. I phased through the wall.

Outside I saw Nomad grappling with an old man. Nomad was part jaguar and fairly large but the old man was holding his own. Selene was slipping blasts of moonlight into the fray. Nomad finally got hold of the old man by a leg and swung him around a couple of times before throwing him to the ground. I immediately used Battery to hit him with a bolt of lightning. He was blasted hard and turned into a mist of some kind. I used Damage, Inc. to flame the mist. Nomad added more fire and Selene hit it with more moonlight blasts. The mist was vaporized.

The three of us teleported back to the bedroom. Basara was playing and singing while white energy flowed through MoSh. Nomad said we should take him to the Healing Glen. I went over to MoSh and carefully lifted his dream body from his sleeping form. Nomad opened a portal and we went through it into the Healing Glen.

On the other side the Crystal Golem met us. He looked at MoSh. He took MoSh from me. He said we all needed to be cleaned up. I used Full Moonlight on the others. Nomad played with his didgeridoo to send healing energy through me. The Crystal Golem took MoSh into the cave. I followed him inside. He lied MoSh in a bed of grass. He said MoSh would need a special mixture for his healing. He described the ingredients needed for the mixture. I did a double take as MoSh got up… or at least part of him did… A second MoSh got up just as his dream body got up out of his physical body. I was staring at that. MoSh said this was his dream body… what was lying on the grass was his astral body… uh… It didn't make a lot of sense to me. MoSh and Nomad headed outside. Basara was playing a song for the sleeping MoSh. I turned to follow Nomad but the Crystal Golem stopped me. He said he wanted to speak to me.

I stayed back with the Crystal Golem. He looked at me closely. He said he has seen that I have a very deep seated parasite that is continuously infecting me with its dark energy. He said he could see it there but normal healing methods do not reach it. He said regular healing methods will get rid of the main symptoms but they leave the cause. I told him I am aware of it, and I have been searching the different worlds for some way to get rid of it permanently. I told him that many ideas have been tried, and some seem to work for a while, but nothing lasts. He said he wanted to make sure I was aware of this parasite. He said he had an idea of something that might help, but he would have to look into it further. I thanked him for helping me. He returned his attention to MoSh.

I left the cave and saw Nomad face to face with a huge snake. The snake was a cobra, raised up with its hood spread and prepared to strike. An attack? Here? As I came out of the cave the snake turned towards me and hissed loudly and violently.

"You chose the wrong place to attack, serpent!" I yelled at the snake as I formed Witchblade into a sword and attacked the giant snake. The snake immediately took to the sky. I managed stabbed my sword into the snake's tail as it was taking off and I was pulled along with it. I don't think the snake even noticed it had been stabbed. "Come back here, you flakey jerk!" I yelled at the snake as I was pulled into the sky.

"Wait!" Nomad called from down below, "That's MoSh!"

"MoSh?" I asked, more to myself than to anyone. I retracted my Witchblade sword back to a bracelet and fell from the snake's tail. I landed in front of Nomad. "He's a snake?" I asked Nomad.

The giant snake flew through the clouds and then returned and landed in front of us. He transformed back into MoSh. I felt a bit stupid. "Sorry about that," I said, "I thought you were attacking us. I didn't know you could transform into a snake!"

I heard something. Not with my ears. In my head. Someone was calling me. I could hear it. I told Nomad I had to go. I used Through the Never and focused on getting to where I was being called. A portal opened. I wondered if someone was being attacked. I formed my Witchblade armor and jumped through the portal.

On the other side I was flying somewhere. It was hard to make out much. I saw someone there. I looked closer to see that person. He looked familiar. Pablo? I asked what was going on. I asked if he was ok or if there was trouble. He didn't answer me. He was watching me. I looked around to see if there was trouble. I saw a couple of strange black forms moving closer. I used my sword and hit them away. I looked back at Pablo. He was trying to open a portal now. I went over to him. I said we could go to the moon. He opened a portal. I looked through it to see where it led. I was losing the dream. It had been going on for quite a while. I told Pablo I would try to find him again. Everything around me faded to black as I woke.

Wow. Why didn't you guys tell me you were coming? That is crazy... I always knew my astral body and dreambody were two different things.

oh and thanks for not cutting me up.

I don't remember a thing tho. I just remember a dream with some of you.. and no other details.

Originally Posted by Man of Shred

Wow. Why didn't you guys tell me you were coming? That is crazy... I always knew my astral body and dreambody were two different things.

oh and thanks for not cutting me up.

I don't remember a thing tho. I just remember a dream with some of you.. and no other details.

I was concerned for you. So, we just decided to go, and see if there was something wrong. Apparently your dream body has an alter ego of badassness.

I fell asleep with my light/sound machine and went into a WILD. I was focused on getting to the moon. I didn't make it there…

I found myself in a forest. Since I didn't end up where I thought I would I ended up only being semi-lucid. I looked around to see where I was. Q was there with me. He said he thought it would be a good idea for me to play a healing song for Malkus. I didn't immediately recognize the name. I asked who he was talking about. He rolled his eyes as if I was being slow. He said Malkus, that Templar I had brought home with me. A Templar? I asked him why I would play a song for a Templar. Q said because I am a healer… and because he didn't think Malkus is really a bad person, he was just taken in by a very convincing and manipulative individual by the name of Robert. He said the lies Robert told him was all he had ever known, but he was sure I could do something about that. He said to go over there and follow my instinct about what to do. He said I should watch my approach. He said somehow Malkus had gotten the idea we were going to kill him. Q sarcastically added that he didn't know how he could've possibly gotten that idea Miss. Raven "The Only Good Templar Is a Dead Templar" Knight. He gave me a dirty look. I said it is true in Assassin's Creed… He said there are no absolutes in reality, not even all Templars being assholes. I gave Q a dirty look. I said he had attacked me. He said Malkus hadn't. He said Malkus had just tried to escape, stopping to fight Altaïr only when his escape route was cut off. He told me to stop arguing and just get over there and do what I do best - heal someone's heart.

I headed over in the direction Q had pointed. I don't know what I expected to find, but what I did find was a man sitting on the ground by a tree. He was just sitting there. I knew Q had told me to find a Templar, but this man looked more in need right now. I went over to him. He looked up at me briefly and then back down at the ground. In that brief glance I thought his eyes looked cold but also afraid. He said he knew someone would come soon. Just make it quick. I didn't know what he was talking about. I looked at him for a minute and I felt myself drawn to use Touch My Heart from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack on this man. He asked why I wasn't just getting it over with. Do what I came to do. I thought he was being a bit rude. I also wondered how he could know what I had come to do. I told him it would all be over in about 4 minutes (the length of the song). He said to just do it. He was quite impatient. I focused on using the song Touch My Heart. I focused the song on the man. Golden energy formed and flowed through him. The song ended. He looked up at me now. His eyes looked different now. Not so cold. And more confused than afraid. I asked him how he felt. He said he felt good. But wasn't I here to kill him? I said no, why would I? I said maybe now we could meet properly. My name is Raven. He said his name is Malkus. I did a double take. Q had said the Templar's name was Malkus. I had found him and used a healing song on him without even realizing it was him! Everything around me faded to black as I woke.

I fell back asleep focusing on the moon. I was already half asleep since this was a WBTB so I ended up in the dream state semi-lucid. My goal was to find Allison. But I had also intended to take Nomad with me… he'd said he wanted to help. Somehow I found myself on the moon…

I was on the moon. I looked around. I was not alone. There were other people there. I thought they were all acting strange. One of them was acting different. He was half jaguar, half human. I immediately thought I had found Nomad. I went over to him and said we could go find Allison. He said sure. I used Through the Never and focused on finding Allison. A portal opened and we both went through…

On the other side we were in an empty room. Or mostly empty. Allison was there. She looked like she was focused on something. A star gate appeared. I told Allison that was cool. I asked if she wanted to go somewhere through it. She looked at me and smiled… and then disappeared. I pulled a Homer Simpson (D'Oh!).

I turned to Nomad and shrugged. I asked Nomad if he wanted to use the star gate anyhow since it was there. Before he could answer again Allison appeared. I told her welcome back and she was dreaming. She said something about doing a WILD. I said that was cool. I have my best luck with WILD's. So let's go before she… Allison disappeared. I pulled a double Homer (D'Oh, D'Oh!).

Since she had returned last time I suggested to Nomad that we wait around a bit before leaving. She might be back again. We waited around twiddling our thumbs. Or at least I did. Nomad was changing forms. From jaguar man to full jaguar to his normal form and then back to jaguar man again like a kid who just discovered a new toy. It was interesting to watch. A bit later Allison appeared. I grabbed her shoulders. I said she was dreaming, but DON'T WAKE UP! Please… I told Allison we could through the star gate and find something exciting to do light fight the Goa'ulds. She said that sounded cool. I told her to go through the portal and I would be right behind her. Nomad mentioned a reality check. I just wanted to get going before she woke up again. I said if we were ready we should go. Just don't wake… Allison disappeared. I pulled a triple Homer (D'Oh, D'Oh, D'Oh!).

I was hoping Allison would appear again. Nomad went back to his transformations to amuse himself. He was choosing more unusual cats now. He changed into a snow leopard. I told him to stop there because he had taken the form of one of the most beautiful cats in the world. I told him I wanted to pet a snow leopard. He rubbed up against me, almost knocking me down. His fur was sooooo soft and silky. I petted Nomad in snow leopard form. I saw something happen. I thought Allison was coming back. But instead a tornado formed and pulled me into it… and through a portal. Nomad grabbed at me as I went but he missed…

I was in a post apocalyptical city again. I recognized the place. I knew what that meant. I looked around and spotted Damion. I asked him what he wanted. He said if I was too stupid to figure that out then he wanted to know how it is that I am able to keep breathing on my own. I had the idea that would've annoyed me at one point. But now it just sounded sad. I walked over to Damion. I asked him how many friends he has. He said he has plenty, and they aren’t a bunch of fools like me and my friends. He continued insulting me, but I was tuning out his exact words now. I could just hear the insults in the tone of his voice. I finally interrupted him.

"You know," I said, "just because one person screwed you over doesn't mean we're all like that. It's not like I want anything from you. You attack me because you are out to get me before I get you. But I'm not out to get you. I get pissed sometimes and think I'm out to get you for a while, but really I'm not."

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Damion asked impatiently.

"You attack me to cover up your own insecurities. To cover up your own wounds," I said, "But I'm not here to hurt you. Don't hide from me, I'm actually a healer. You are a sick patient hiding from the doctors who have the medicine that can save you."

"Don't you stand there and try to psychoanalyze me!" Damion said angrily. "I don't have to listen to this!"

I looked in Damion's eyes. "I see pain in your eyes," I said, "Pain from a wound that won't heal. I have wounds that won't heal. Knives in my back from people I counted friends. A broken heart thrown back at me from a boyfriend I thought loved me. These things still hurt. It takes so long for them to heal. But positive energy and love will heal them, or at least soothe the pain. I told him I wanted to share that positive energy with him."

"You've gone even more insane that you already were!" Damion exclaimed and backed away a step.

"I know what you need," I told Damion, "You need a hug! You need to know someone cares!"

"A what?" Damion asked, "No! I don't need a…"

I didn't wait for him to answer. I went straight over to him and embraced him like a long lost brother. I whispered comforting things in his ear such as, "Everything will be ok," and "Be your true self and people will accept you," and "Don't be afraid to love again." Damion was struggling to get free. I held him tight. I focused positive energy into him. He was cursing at me and telling me to get off of him. Finally, probably not knowing what else to do, he went still and just stood there as I hugged him. I pulled back and smiled at him.

"See?" I asked, "That wasn't so bad, was it?"

"You're a complete lunatic!" Damion exclaimed before he disappeared. Everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

I was concerned for you. So, we just decided to go, and see if there was something wrong. Apparently your dream body has an alter ego of badassness.

I know you were concerned. but WHAT specifially led you to believe that?