Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

I am going to start listing some of my dreams here. Some of them are non-lucid, some are lucid, most of them are what I call semi-lucid. That's where I remember the dream skills I have developed over time but I don't necessarily acknowledge it is a dream. I have seen this done in other dream journal threads, so I will color code my dreams:

Not Lucid
Semi-Lucid
Fully Lucid
Astral Projection - Or at least what I think is AP...

I will date all of my dreams and might include some past dreams that were particularly interesting or meaningful. I think I will start with one of those older dreams. It might help me get back into dreaming regularly!

It seems that some friends I have known in the dreams I used to have with my ex boyfriend have been showing up now that I have started dreaming again. Here is a list of some of the people who will show up. Keep in mind that this is how I see them, not necessarily who they are. I see them as fictional characters that I am familiar with:

People from the Physical Plane:
WakingNomad (Referred to in dreams as Nomad): I met him on this forum and we have been sharing dreams on a regular basis.
Man of Shred (Referred to in dreams as MoSh)
WarriorTiger (Referred to in dreams as Allison or Tigress)
Loaf
Mowglycdb (Referred to in dreams as Pablo)
Walms

The above people are people I have met on Dreamviews (WarriorTiger I know IWL) and I have shared dreams with at least a few times. There may be others who have shown up in one dream, but these are the ones who show up repeatedly in my dreams.

Alicia: My best friend since high school.
James: My ex boyfriend.
Tina: My ex boyfriend's wife (it was her that he cheated with)
Mom: Self-explanatory
John: My brother, now he is deceased.

Unique Entities:
Roy: Appears as a 4 foot purple skinned alien with glowing blue eyes. He taught me my telepathic powers.
Hetfield: My guardian spirit. He guides me in my waking life and in my dreams.

Appearing as Fictional Characters:
Q: My spirit guide. We have a long history.
Link, Spike, Sephiroth, Basara, Bakura: I believe these were boyfriends / lovers I have had in past lives in other worlds. In my travels there seems to have been some kind of attraction that has been drawing me back to them.
Link and Sephiroth: Skilled swordsmen, also able to use magic. Look like their images on the video games. Sephiroth is in his fully human form. Link is the adult form of Link from Twilight Princess.
Spike: A vampire. Can go out in the sun for a while. More of an energy vampire than a blood drinking vampire. He looks like Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Basara: The lead singer of a group called Fire Bomber on the Macross 7 anime series. He is strongly opposed to killing anyone. His singing has healing properties. My Fire Valkyrie is in the background!
Bakura: Looks like the past version of Yami Bakura (not the kid Bakura) off of the YuGiOh anime series. He is a thief by nature, specializing in stealth.
Altaïr: Just recently I have been dreaming of Altaïr quite a bit... the main character from the game Assassin's Creed. A skilled assassin. Looks like the main character in Assassin's Creed.
I hope this clears up some of the people showing up in my dreams!

This dream came from somewhere in the late 90's during the time period when the television series Xena: Warrior Princess was being aired. In case anyone doesn't know, the character Callisto was insane and always trying to get revenge on Xena for the destruction of her village. She blamed Xena for the death of her family and would do anything to get her revenge. I was really into the show and I had quite a few dreams about it. This was one:

I was in a strange place. It was a forest. I was on a narrow path through the forest. I began walking along it, listening to the birds singing in the trees. I was thinking I had better get home. My mother would be worried. I stopped and looked around. I could not think how I had gotten there. I also didn't know how to get home. That seemed strange. I thought about that for a minute and then I decided to do a reality check. The fact I could not remember how I had gotten there was a clue I might be dreaming. For my reality check I jumped into the air and attempted to hover there. I hovered briefly before coming back down. I could fly if I tried! I was dreaming.

Note: My reality check worked perfectly here to make me lucid...

I was completely lucid now. I thought the forest was a nice place and I wanted to explore it some more. I followed the path for a ways and then decided I would fly. I saw the glimmer of light off of water through the trees. I would fly over that lake. I was heading for the lake when I heard someone yelling loudly. It was a woman. I couldn't hear what she was saying. I followed that sound. Right near the edge of the water I found Callisto (from the Xena: Warrior Princess series) pointing a sword at Gabrielle (also from Xena) who was tied to a tree. Callisto looked over at me and was clearly not happy. She was calling out to Xena, who was nowhere to be seen. She said Xena should come out or her pal would die. I told Callisto she didn't want to do that. Callisto asked if I wanted to die along with Gabrielle. I knew I was dreaming so I wasn't afraid of being hurt

Note: When I listen to some songs my imagination starts creating ideas for what kind of magical effect that song could have. I had been listening to Until It Sleeps by Metallica a lot and had been imagining that it would cause feelings of hate, anger, and pain to sleep. I don't know if that is the idea Metallica had when they wrote it, but it is where my mind went... And as so often happens when I have a lucid dream, I stopped thinking about the fact it was a dream and slipped into a state of semi-lucidity.

My first thought was to heal the anger and pain that had made Callisto go insane in the first place. And I knew just the song to make that anger and pain sleep. I focused on the song Until It Sleeps by Metallica. I imagined I could hear it playing in my head and then that I could hear it playing all around me. As I focused on it I realized I really could hear the song playing. And so could Callisto. She had looked like she might attack me with her sword, but now she was looking all around for the source of the strange music. Of course I was the source. As the song played I was focusing healing energy on Callisto, willing her to let go of her anger and hate. After the first part of the song Callisto looked like she was in some kind of trance.

The song completed, and Callisto came out of her trance. She looked disoriented. She looked over at Gabrielle, who was still tied to the tree. I asked Callisto how she felt. She said she felt at peace for the first time in a long time. She used her sword to cut Gabrielle free. Gabrielle looked quite confused at that. Callisto said she didn't know what had just happened, but this could be a whole new beginning. She turned and departed through the trees leaving Gabrielle looking very confused. Xena showed up just after Callisto left. She asked Gabrielle where Callisto had gone. Gabrielle said Callisto had let her go. Now Xena was also confused. Gabrielle looked like she was about to say something to me when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Wow. Cool. I wonder if you helped heal a real person, or the DC was part of yourself. I lean toward the latter. All the DC's I have ever talked to about it always said that they were me. That is cool that you can manifest music in dreams. So, you often you use music for magic in lucid dreams?

The music I have always heard in dreams is drum'n'bass/jungle. The first time I heard jungle music I said, "This is the music I hear in my dreams!" It's usually that, or some type of epic electronica.

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

Wow. Cool. I wonder if you helped heal a real person, or the DC was part of yourself. I lean toward the latter. All the DC's I have ever talked to about it always said that they were me. That is cool that you can manifest music in dreams. So, you often you use music for magic in lucid dreams?

The music I have always heard in dreams is drum'n'bass/jungle. The first time I heard jungle music I said, "This is the music I hear in my dreams!" It's usually that, or some type of epic electronica.

Music is what I use for just about any magic I want to perform in my dreams. It just seems to come naturally in my dream state. And as for if Callisto is a real person or part of me, I can't help but think if I had been healing parts of me for all this time I would have gotten somewhere. I have always felt (until recently) that I was traveling to another world and healing someone in need. Not that I necessarily believe it was Callisto... I'm sure my mind would let me see something I would recognize so I would know what to do. That explains why I see television and video game characters. And sometimes those people I help turn around and help heal me in return. It never seems to last , but they do try.

I was in a dark room. The smell was musty. It smelled like a barn. I looked around the room. There was a woman tied to a chair. It looked like someone had been hitting her. I thought I should get her free and try to heal her wounds. I walked over to her. When she saw me she panicked. She was begging me not to kill her. I didn't know why I would want to kill her. I told her I was going to untie her. She said she wasn't stupid enough to believe that. I figured I could prove it by untying her. I started trying to untie the knot on her right wrist. It was really tight. I asked the woman who had brought her there. She asked what kind of sick game I was playing. She said I had brought her there.

Note: I was thinking that was strange. I remembered being in dreams where I am not myself. I didn't actually admit to myself that I was dreaming, but it made me question whether I really looked like myself right now. I became semi-lucid.

I wanted to know what was going on. If I wasn't myself, then who was I? I looked around the dark room, searching for some kind of reflective surface. I saw nothing. I turned back to the woman in the chair. She obviously knew me. I asked her who I was. She said I was insane. I asked her what my name was. She begged me not to kill her. I asked her again what my name was.

"Altaïr," she finally said, "Your name is Altaïr. But I swear I won't tell anyone. Just please don't kill me..."

Note: That revelation surprised me. I have been dreaming about Assassin's Creed quite a bit lately, so hearing of or seeing Altaïr is a clear dream sign. I became lucid.

So I wanted to know what was going on. Why was Altaïr going to kill this woman? I told her I was not Altaïr. I told her my name is Raven. I asked what Altaïr had wanted from her. She seemed to hesitate. She finally said Altaïr had wanted to know the location of a refugee camp so he could poison the water. She said he had been hired by some dictator named Darmund. She said she hadn't wanted to tell him but he had threatened to kill her children. Poisoning water supplies? Killing children? This didn't fit with the Altaïr I have come to know on the games. I thought she might be lying. But since I was dreaming I could read the truth right out of her mind.

Note: This is a case where having a familiar name appear in a dream helps me know what is going on. If she had been referencing some random character I have never heard of I wouldn't have suspected her of lying...

To get her thinking about the right topic I asked her to confirm that she was saying Altaïr was planning on poisoning a bunch of innocent people. She said yes. But her eyes said more. I suddenly knew the whole story. She was the one who had developed the poison. She had tested it on her own children. The image of the children reaching out to her as they died was etched in my mind. Altaïr had wanted to know where the poison was to be used so he could stop it. She had finally revealed the location under threat of having some of her own poison used on her. I asked how she could poison her own children. She looked shocked. She asked me how I knew. I said her eyes could not lie. Her actions made me ill. I didn't want to be there with her any longer. I figured it was time to leave. I felt myself disassociate from my body...

Note: I actually thought I would wake up here but instead I just lost lucidity.

I was still seeing out of my body but I wasn't controlling what was happening. I (Altaïr) turned back towards the woman. She must've seen something in my (his) eyes because she started struggling to get free again. As I (Altaïr) approached her she was calling out my name (Raven). She was begging me to come back and save her. She was begging me to please not let him kill her. And then he (we) killed her... A knife blade right through her heart (or at least where her heart should've been)

Note: It really looked and felt like I had just killed someone... That isn't something I would ever do in reality, so I kept telling myself it was a dream and I would wake up soon. I believed myself when I said I was dreaming and became lucid again.

I was still just a passenger in the body as Altaïr (I) left the building (which was a barn) and mounted a horse. The horse was a white horse with a red mane. I've never seen one like it in reality. The horse ran as fast as the wind. I knew where we were going. To the refugee camp to stop the poisoning. The camp wasn't far away. They had a makeshift water tower at the edge of the camp where people got their water. Three men were approaching it with a small container, presumably of poison. Altaïr (I) jumped off the horse and drew a sword to engage them in battle. Two of them stayed to fight, but the third headed for the water tower with the poison. I focused on hearing the song Battery by Metallica. That is a song I used to summon a bolt of lightning. A bolt of lightning struck the man with the poison. Now I was in a sword fight with two men. They didn't seem all that skilled. I somehow knew how to handle the sword. I ran it through one of them and removed the other man's head. I had just killed three more people, but this time I knew it was a dream... and I didn't see any other option to keep them from poisoning the water. The last man cursed Altaïr as he died. I was losing the dream. I could tell. I wanted to head off and do more things. I wanted to explore that world a bit. I couldn't hold on to the dream and I woke.

Note: Those images of the kids dying and of that woman begging me to help her were a bit too vivid for my liking. But as dream memories do, they will fade soon. A very intense dream in which I went through a couple stages of lucidity. If only I could have held on to the dream!

WOw! That dream is so epic! How intense, especially as I listen to this dark crazy dubstep. So many people's dreams would make such badass movies. That is so crazy how you looked into that woman's eyes and saw things.

I have killed lots of people in dreams. I think it comes from having a lot of supressed anger, or maybe just extra energy. The first person I killed in a dream was Kathie Lee Gifford. Her head rolled down the aisle in a cathedral, chasing me, trying to bite me. I killed someone the other night in a dream, but I was lucid, so his flesh became foam rubber, and his blood was like red jello.

Using songs for magic is sick. That is what Bards do in role playing games. I use music for magic in waking life. I play didjeridoo.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

This dream came from somewhere in the late 90's during the time period when the television series Xena: Warrior Princess was being aired. In case anyone doesn't know, the character Callisto was insane and always trying to get revenge on Xena for the destruction of her village. She blamed Xena for the death of her family and would do anything to get her revenge. I was really into the show and I had quite a few dreams about it. This was one:

I was in a strange place. It was a forest. I was on a narrow path through the forest. I began walking along it, listening to the birds singing in the trees. I was thinking I had better get home. My mother would be worried. I stopped and looked around. I could not think how I had gotten there. I also didn't know how to get home. That seemed strange. I thought about that for a minute and then I decided to do a reality check. The fact I could not remember how I had gotten there was a clue I might be dreaming. For my reality check I jumped into the air and attempted to hover there. I hovered briefly before coming back down. I could fly if I tried! I was dreaming.

Note: My reality check worked perfectly here to make me lucid...

I was completely lucid now. I thought the forest was a nice place and I wanted to explore it some more. I followed the path for a ways and then decided I would fly. I saw the glimmer of light off of water through the trees. I would fly over that lake. I was heading for the lake when I heard someone yelling loudly. It was a woman. I couldn't hear what she was saying. I followed that sound. Right near the edge of the water I found Callisto (from the Xena: Warrior Princess series) pointing a sword at Gabrielle (also from Xena) who was tied to a tree. Callisto looked over at me and was clearly not happy. She was calling out to Xena, who was nowhere to be seen. She said Xena should come out or her pal would die. I told Callisto she didn't want to do that. Callisto asked if I wanted to die along with Gabrielle. I knew I was dreaming so I wasn't afraid of being hurt

Note: When I listen to some songs my imagination starts creating ideas for what kind of magical effect that song could have. I had been listening to Until It Sleeps by Metallica a lot and had been imagining that it would cause feelings of hate, anger, and pain to sleep. I don't know if that is the idea Metallica had when they wrote it, but it is where my mind went... And as so often happens when I have a lucid dream, I stopped thinking about the fact it was a dream and slipped into a state of semi-lucidity.

My first thought was to heal the anger and pain that had made Callisto go insane in the first place. And I knew just the song to make that anger and pain sleep. I focused on the song Until It Sleeps by Metallica. I imagined I could hear it playing in my head and then that I could hear it playing all around me. As I focused on it I realized I really could hear the song playing. And so could Callisto. She had looked like she might attack me with her sword, but now she was looking all around for the source of the strange music. Of course I was the source. As the song played I was focusing healing energy on Callisto, willing her to let go of her anger and hate. After the first part of the song Callisto looked like she was in some kind of trance.

The song completed, and Callisto came out of her trance. She looked disoriented. She looked over at Gabrielle, who was still tied to the tree. I asked Callisto how she felt. She said she felt at peace for the first time in a long time. She used her sword to cut Gabrielle free. Gabrielle looked quite confused at that. Callisto said she didn't know what had just happened, but this could be a whole new beginning. She turned and departed through the trees leaving Gabrielle looking very confused. Xena showed up just after Callisto left. She asked Gabrielle where Callisto had gone. Gabrielle said Callisto had let her go. Now Xena was also confused. Gabrielle looked like she was about to say something to me when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Please don't take offense (I'm a big Xena fan too!!) did you happen to fall asleep with the TV on? Maybe Xena was on..and you were playing Joxer? lol just kidding... I had to joke. Do you watch Legend Of The Seeker? First show in a long time that I have liked since Xena. BTW I would have loved to have that dream..I would have been Xena, however. lol I used to have Charmed dreams all the time..I was an extra charmed sister with all their abilities loved it.

Awesome dreams. I also remember healing TG with Red, and talking to Tiger for a bit, night before last.

Hey MoSh! Remember Asuka!

Note: I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on and the intent of meeting up with MoSh. I slipped into a WILD. All I can recall is a fragment, though.

I was in MoSh's inner world. I looked around and I found MoSh and Asuka were there as if they were waiting for me. MoSh opened a portal and we went through.

On the other side we in a comfortable room. A man was kicked back in a chair drinking a beer. He had long black hair with a salting of gray. He looked up at us when we appeared and smiled. I looked over at MoSh. I remembered I had told him I would get him to do a reality check. I told him to do a reality check. He looked at me strangely. I said he was dreaming… do a reality check. Asuka pinched his nose.

"Hey!" MoSh said, but then he breathed through his nose. "I'm dreaming!" he said.

"Good start," I said. I took hold of Asuka's shoulders from behind and steered her right in front of MoSh. "Now get a really good look. You will remember Asuka. You will remember Asuka."

"How could I forget a face like hers?" he asked with a smile.

"Just remember her!" I said.

"Maybe he'll remember this…" Asuka said and then she kissed him.

This ends the fragment.
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02/20/10 Shared Dream Raven and Mzzkc

Note: One of my goals tonight was to find Mzzkc and share a dream. I fell asleep with this goal in mind. I was not using my light / sound machine so I didn't go into a WILD, but I somehow managed to enter my dream semi-lucid and with my goal in mind…

I was in a strange place. I looked around to see where I was. I was in what looked like an old warehouse district. There were many buildings around, they looked a bit rundown. A lot of the buildings had no roof. I was wandering around there. I knew I was looking for Mzzkc. I noticed the light was fading. I looked up a bit and saw a red sky. I didn't pay much attention to it. I just kept walking. I went through a doorway into a large open area. I stepped out towards the middle of the area. I heard something behind me and I turned suddenly, instinctively forming Witchblade into a sword. I blocked a man attacking me with his sword. Was that Mzzkc? He told me I was dreaming. He said to hurry up and become lucid so I would be able to make a good fight of this. That was definitely Mzzkc. Cool!

We got in a fast-paced sword battle. Most of it was attacking, blocking, dodging, and moving in to attack again. For a while neither of us could get anything through. One of his attacks got through and hit my Witchblade armor. If I didn't have armor on that would've hurt. Hmmm… apparently I would have to do better than I had been doing so far. I tried a move that I have only tried once before… and that time I fell on my ass. It was the move Xena had shown me just before I had a match with MoSh. This time I didn't fall on my ass. This time I did it perfectly! And this time I got a hit through on Mzzkc! The fight continued for a while longer. I tried using Xena's move again after a while… but this time he was ready for it. He dodged the move and took advantage of the resultant opening to get a hit through. We decided the battle was over.

I looked around. It was night time now. I wondered how long we had been fighting for. I told Mzzkc he was good with the sword. He said I was, too. He seemed interested in the Witchblade. I showed him how my Witchblade can turn into several kinds of weapons and armor. I congratulated him on his win in the sword fight, and said I wanted a rematch some time. He said sure thing. I told him to remember the dream. He told me to do the same. He said we could compare notes tomorrow. I agreed with that and everything around me faded to black as I woke.

Detail Match:
Raven: We were in a sword fight.
Mzzkc: Also remembered a sword fight.

Raven: Mzzkc won the sword fight.
Mzzkc: Remembered winning after a close match.

Raven: Remembers getting a hit in.
Mzzkc: Remembers getting two hits in.

Raven: Remembers doing it in a large outside area, or maybe a warehouse without a roof.
Mzzkc: Remembers doing it in a house, maybe with no roof.

Raven: Remembers the sky being red.
Mzzkc: Remembers the sky being dark blue.
Possibility: The sky at sunset? Raven looking at the horizon and Mzzkc looking up?

Raven: Remembers Mzzkc telling her to be lucid and make it a good fight.
Mzzkc: Remembers telling Raven not to take anything personally, he wants her to remember the dream.

Raven: Doesn't remember anyone else there.
Mzzkc: Never revealed this information.

Raven: Remembers showing Mzzkc some weapons and armor of her Witchblade.
Mzzkc: Remembers Raven doing something with her Witchblade, didn't say what.

Raven: Counts this as a successful shared dream.
Mzzkc: Will not count this as a successful shared dream.

Comments? Who thinks this looks like a success?

OH ME!!! Totally a match!!!!

I was in a strange place. I looked around to see where I was. I wasn't lucid. I saw I was in a forest of some kind. It was a rather dark forest. I wasn't alone there. There were four horses there. Three of the horses had riders. I recognized the riders. Nomad was on a black stallion. Selene was on a flame red stallion. Adult Link (From Legend of Zelda) was on a brown mare. There was a white mare with flam red mane and tail standing next to me. She nuzzled me affectionately. Q appeared amidst us. He looked at me and told me I was dreaming. I tried to fly and found I could do it. I landed beside my horse.

Note: Sometimes Spike will take an alternative form. Tonight he looked like adult Link from Legend of Zelda. He looked like Link does in Twilight Princess.

Q snapped his fingers. We all now looked like elves. Link didn't change at all. Q handed Nomad a staff with a glowing crystal on it. He said to deliver that to the mountain king. A simple straight forward quest for now. He added that we weren't the only ones who wanted that gem, though. He disappeared. I climbed onto my horse. We started heading in the direction Q had indicated. Nomad was looking at his staff. He said something about Gandalf. I said he was an elf… Gandalf is not an elf. I heard something behind us. There were enemies coming. Selene started firing arrows into the trees. I didn't see the enemies yet. We were in a closed in area so we rode farther along the path until it opened up to a point where there would be room to fight. The enemies exploded into the clearing behind us. They were all on horseback. I did a double take at them. Templars?! WTF? I heard Q talking to me telepathically. He said not to worry, they weren't shadow Templars. Just DCs in the training area. Energy came from Nomad's staff and knocked a number of Templars off of their horses. Some of the Templars went after Nomad and Selene. Somehow Link and I got separated off from them… and a bunch of Templars followed us.

Link was riding next to me as we led the Templars off to the side. He asked me if I had decided to bring my own enemies today. We came to a stop and turned to face the enemies. Link used his sword to create a wave of force. That wave knocked all of the Templars off of their horses. The horses freaked out and fled. A couple of Templars got trampled in the process. Link jumped off of his horse and into the middle of a group of Templars where he did a spin attack. He cut down four Templars with that move and made several others back away from him. I jumped off of my horse and got into a sword fight with a couple other Templars. My Witchblade armor blocked any attacks coming at me and I quickly returned attacks and cut down Templars. I pulled my sword out of a dying Templar just in time to see Link dispatch one other Templar. All of the Templars were now gone. Some of their horses could be seen grazing on the grass.

Link and I met up with Nomad and Selene. We were all back on our horses. We headed farther up the mountain. I noticed Nomad's horse no longer had a rider. I did a double take. I thought maybe he had woken up. His horse was still following us. We were almost to the top of the mountain. There was a castle at the top of the mountain. The castle of the mountain king. I saw Nomad was back. I thought the castle actually looked kind of creepy. It was dark and had a lot of bats flying around it. I wondered what kind of person this mountain king was. I wondered if we should give this mountain king that staff. I thought that might be bad. Maybe this quest wasn't quite as straight forward as Q had implied. A little plot twist. Nomad was staring at the castle. He disappeared again. I wondered where he had gone this time. The dream was slipping. I told Link I was leaving. He said he would see me back home then. He leaned over from his horse and kissed me. Everything faded to black as I woke.

I fell asleep using my light/sound machine and went to the moon in a WILD. I was able to meet up with Nomad there and we went to Alicia's. The healing session went well this time. There weren't any interruptions by any strange parasites and since Tooth has been cured and is now known as Joseph he didn't interfere, either. The energy from the healing session left me feeling really at peace.

Glad you got your job done!!!!

I was in a strange place. I looked around to see where I was. I didn't recognize the location. It was a dark passage that looked like a hallway in an abandoned building. I walked for a while. I was not even sure how I had gotten there. There was dim light coming from a few overhead lights, but most of those were dark. I could hear strange noises off to the side. I couldn't identify them but I found them to be creepy. I continued down the hall. I reached the end of the hall. There were three doors there. They looked like normal office doors, but in the dim light they seemed ominous. I tried the one at the end… locked. The one to my right was also locked. I tried the one to my left and found it was open. I went through it and into…

A computer control center. The walls were lined with very sophisticated looking computer equipment. Q was in the room. He said he was glad to see I had arrived. He said I should do a reality check… I am dreaming. I wasn't sure what to do for a reality check since I was inside. Trying to fly wouldn't work. I tried to levitate. I floated off of the ground. I landed again, now I was lucid.

Q went over to one of the computer consoles. He said this was the Outer Realms training area. He said everyone else was also starting in one of these rooms. He said I have a teammate; Link. He said our opponents were Nomad and Selene. He said the goal would be in the center of the maze. He said it is basically a competition to get there first. He said the halls are filled with zombies. He said whichever team got both members to the goal first would be the winner. He reminded me it is a training mission, so there is no real reason not to kill each other. I asked him where Link was. He said in another room like the one we were in. He said finding our partner should be the first task. He said he had already talked to the others so it was time to start. He said if I forgot anything Link would surely remind me. He said he had made sure Selene would remind Nomad if he forgot something. He said the competition would begin… now! With that he disappeared.

I looked at the computers around the room. None of them looked useful. It looked like they were all for show. I checked a couple of them. The data they were displaying didn't mean anything to me. I wondered where Link was. I left the room and looked back down the hall in the direction I had come from. There was nowhere else to go. I thought I would get together with Link. I focused on opening a portal to Link. A portal opened. I went through it. On the other side I was in another similar hall. The only difference was that Link was in front of me. Link smiled at me and said he had thought I would come. I asked him if he knew anything else about the competition. He said he only knew what Q had told him. It turned out to be the same thing as Q had told me.

Link and I entered a room at the end of the hall. There were several doors out of the room. They all closed shut tight. We were attacked by zombies that clawed their way out of the ground. Link had his sword and I used a sword formed from my Witchblade bracelet. Using these weapons we quickly dispatched the zombies. When they were all dead the doors opened up again. I looked at the doors. There were five of them including the one we had come from. The room was perfectly round and all the doors were open now, so there wasn't even any way to tell which door we had come in through. I looked at Link. He asked me which door I thought we should take. I wasn't sure. I closed my eyes and tried to focus on our goal. The problem was I didn't really know what the goal was. Q hadn't told me. I thought that was probably to keep anyone from teleporting straight to it. I finally got a feeling about a specific door. I pointed at it and then went for it. Link followed me. I stepped through the door… and the floor fell away from my feet. So much for trusting my intuition… I plunged down for what seemed like forever before I landed in a soft pile of grass. I was not hurt. It briefly entered my mind that Assassin's Creed isn't so far fetched for the fact Altaïr can jump 20 stories into a cart full of hay… I climbed out of the grass pile. It looked like I was outside. I had no idea how that could've happened. I looked up. I just saw the sky instead of the hole I had fallen through. I was confused.

I noticed I wasn't alone. Nomad was in the meadow with me. He looked a bit distracted. I wondered if he was lucid. I remembered that we were competing, but I didn't really want to be an asshole and attack him when he wasn't lucid. I walked over behind him and spoke his name. He turned around and saw me. I told him he was dreaming. He said this meadow is amazing. He said something here made him feel like he was on weed. Really good weed. I wondered if he had been on weed when he fell asleep. I asked if he was lucid. He said yes. I asked if he remembered the competition. He said yes. I said then let's compete. He said ok and took out a sword. He just stared at me now. He looked stoned. But then he suddenly seemed to sober up and attacked me. Fortunately my Witchblade armor is a bit swifter than I am. It formed and blocked the attack. Had he just been feigning that he was on drugs? We exchanged a few attacks and finally I got an attack through. He dodged just enough that the attack cut off his arm. I did a double take and stepped back. He didn't seem to be in any pain. He looked at the stump and smiled as he grew a new arm. He said he had learned a new trick. He'd wanted me to see it.

For the next few minutes no one was getting anywhere. My Witchblade blocked all of his attacks and my attacks were blocked by an invisible force field. I finally decided to charge my sword with white lightning. It works with the Templars after all… but of course Nomad isn't a Templar. I charged the sword with extra energy anyhow. We exchanged more attacks. I jumped up into the air and drove my sword right into the top left side of his force field. Glowing cracks spread out from the point of impact. The shield gave way and my momentum carried me through the rest of my jump… and my sword removed his head. My first thought was, "Let's see you re-grow that!" My second thought was, "Oh, shit! I went too far!" I heard Q telepathically remind me we were in the training area. Nomad would re-spawn. No worries. But the body was still there. I went over to it and it disappeared just before I reached it. I looked at the empty spot. Link appeared next to me. He said he thought he knew where the goal was. I pointed at the spot where Nomad had been. Link asked what was wrong. He said let's go.

I followed Link into a tunnel leading into a green hill. The tunnel turned into a hallway. Link and I were walking along the hallway. He pointed to a door on the right. It didn't look like anything special. I reached out to open it. The door was locked. Link said it had been open a bit ago. He started probing at the door. I was losing the dream. I told Link I thought I was waking up. He said to just hold on a bit longer. As if he thought it would help he kissed me. The kiss felt so real.

Note: I held the dream a bit longer but I lost part of my lucidity...

He went back to the door. He finally found something. He pushed on a certain spot and the door swung open. He said to hurry. Link and I ran down a long hallway. There was a glowing light at the end. Was that the goal? As we got closer I saw the glowing light was a trophy. We entered the trophy room and reached for the trophy and BAM! We crashed into two other people coming from our right. Link, Selene, Nomad, and I were now all in a big pile on the ground. We had apparently found the trophy at the same time. That was just fine. I was losing the dream anyway. Everything faded to black as I woke.

I'm just curious, are you guys training for some specific purpose? or is this just for fun? I'm a bit confused

Partially because we have met some things in our dreams; dream demons and nightstalkers. They have showed up consistently in my dreams for a long time... and now they show up in Nomad's dreams... I don't know if Nomad counted on that when he said he wanted to share my dreams!

Also, it is the most realistic video game ever! Complete virtual reality where we can decide how the game goes! So it's also for fun!

Originally Posted by Robo

I'm just curious, are you guys training for some specific purpose? or is this just for fun? I'm a bit confused

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

I noticed I wasn't alone. Nomad was in the meadow with me. He looked a bit distracted. I wondered if he was lucid. I remembered that we were competing, but I didn't really want to be an asshole and attack him when he wasn't lucid. I walked over behind him and spoke his name. He turned around and saw me. I told him he was dreaming. He said this meadow is amazing. He said something here made him feel like he was on weed. Really good weed. I wondered if he had been on weed when he fell asleep. I asked if he was lucid. He said yes. I asked if he remembered the competition. He said yes. I said then let's compete. He said ok and took out a sword. He just stared at me now. He looked stoned. But then he suddenly seemed to sober up and attacked me. Fortunately my Witchblade armor is a bit swifter than I am. It formed and blocked the attack. Had he just been feigning that he was on drugs? We exchanged a few attacks and finally I got an attack through. He dodged just enough that the attack cut off his arm. I did a double take and stepped back. He didn't seem to be in any pain. He looked at the stump and smiled as he grew a new arm. He said he had learned a new trick. He'd wanted me to see it.

For the next few minutes no one was getting anywhere. My Witchblade blocked all of his attacks and my attacks were blocked by an invisible force field. I finally decided to charge my sword with white lightning. It works with the Templars after all… but of course Nomad isn't a Templar. I charged the sword with extra energy anyhow. We exchanged more attacks. I jumped up into the air and drove my sword right into the top left side of his force field. Glowing cracks spread out from the point of impact. The shield gave way and my momentum carried me through the rest of my jump… and my sword removed his head. My first thought was, "Let's see you re-grow that!" My second thought was, "Oh, shit! I went too far!" I heard Q telepathically remind me we were in the training area. Nomad would re-spawn. No worries. But the body was still there. I went over to it and it disappeared just before I reached it. I looked at the empty spot. Link appeared next to me. He said he thought he knew where the goal was. I pointed at the spot where Nomad had been. Link asked what was wrong. He said let's go.

I followed Link into a tunnel leading into a green hill. The tunnel turned into a hallway. Link and I were walking along the hallway. He pointed to a door on the right. It didn't look like anything special. I reached out to open it. The door was locked. Link said it had been open a bit ago. He started probing at the door. I was losing the dream. I told Link I thought I was waking up. He said to just hold on a bit longer. As if he thought it would help he kissed me. The kiss felt so real.

Note: I held the dream a bit longer but I lost part of my lucidity...

He went back to the door. He finally found something. He pushed on a certain spot and the door swung open. He said to hurry. Link and I ran down a long hallway. There was a glowing light at the end. Was that the goal? As we got closer I saw the glowing light was a trophy. We entered the trophy room and reached for the trophy and BAM! We crashed into two other people coming from our right. Link, Selene, Nomad, and I were now all in a big pile on the ground. We had apparently found the trophy at the same time. That was just fine. I was losing the dream anyway. Everything faded to black as I woke.

I wish I remembered this dream. What a kickass dream!!!

The funny thing is, yeah. I was high when I went to sleep that night! That force field is the one from the belt that Selene gave me, but you probably already knew that.

And you did finally kill me like I wanted you to before. haha.

" 'Tis but a flesh wound! Come back here!"

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.