The Glade 4.0

Or so my idiot brain decided to dream last night. Which is pretty weird, because the semester is over and grades have already been posted.

I hate you, brain.



I have to admit you're pretty handy sometimes, though.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Awesome!

Also, I never had that dream...until about a year after I graduated college. Why it picked then to start, I have no idea.

I still have the dream that I'm at the end of the semester and forgot I enrolled in a class.

And I'm out of college 12 years.

Same here. It's never happened while I've actually been in college. But 7 or 8 years ago? ALL THE DAMN TIME.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

This is my variation.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I've had both of those flavors of the "missed your final exam" dream.

I've also had a rather strange variation of the naked at high school dream, where I'm intellectually aware that I graduated ten years ago, am wondering why I'm even there, but also am trying to remember what year I'm in and where my locker was that year so I can get my clothes out and put them back on.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I had that too for a while, but then I was able to wake myself up by recognizing that I didn't have any classes anymore...so then my brain decided to craft a persistent dreamscape wherein I had reenrolled in college for a second major (you know, for kicks!), just so it could put me in a realistic "holy **** you've forgotten your exam" scenario.

Go go brain.

GOOMH.

Except, weirdly enough, for me it has been re-enrolling in High School, for various reasons.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I have the "back in high school even though I'm an adult, "naked at high school" and "forgot I was in a certain class" dreams every so often. I really hate them.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

This reminds me.... I've been trying to accomplish lucid dreaming for about a month now. I haven't had any luck yet, but my dream recall is gradually improving. More importantly, I've learned something about myself:

The process of dreaming makes my brain act like a total dick.

I'm serious. It's been trolling me hard. A couple days into my effort, I had a dream about enrolling in classes at a new school for the spring. When I got to my first class (which was held in a huge atrium for some reason), the prof launches into this lecture about Wake Initiated Lucid Dreaming (a.k.a. WILDing). I had attempted but failed that very technique the night the dream occurred. I swear it was mocking me. But does my idiot dream self pick up on this? No, of course not!

Then a few days later I had another dream that I can't remember at all except for one part. I remember looking at the ground and seeing a pack of crossbow bolts from HL2. Here's the kicker: I distinctly remember thinking in the dream that it was really sad and funny that my mind couldn't come up with a less obviously fake prop. And yet, I didn't twig to the fact that, hey dumbass! You're dreaming!

ARGH.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

I've never intentionally tried to dream.. honestly, it never occurred to me.

I have the most lucid dreams when I take a 5mg melatonin before I go to bed.

I also tend to have more lucid dreams when I'm really really tired (lack of sleep tired).

Pizza before bed means I get...

The power of really, really slow flight and guns that don't kill anything.

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Raell Kromwell

Ban brains!

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

I thought this was already a law.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I have never had the naked in class dream, but I do get the "forgot I was in this class" dream. It only started happening several years after I got out of college. Some of them are very realistic and it always takes a bit to convince myself that it wasn't real. I'll wake up and be stressed out about how far behind I am in class. Wait...what class...I'm not in any class.

Anther one I get has a much more...obvious source. And that is the dream I have where I am "waking" up in my bed and see a spider crawling up towards my face. That usually ends with me waking up for real and jumping up and turning on the light looking for the spider for a bit before I realize it's a dream. The whole dreaming about waking up which leads directly into actually waking up makes the line between dream and reality very blurry. The source of that is that when I was home for the summer from college (years ago) a brown recluse came down from the ceiling, landed on my eyelid, and bit me when I brushed it aside in my sleep. Two weeks as the elephant man made an indelible mark on my psyche I guess.

My wife has dreams about giant bugs from which she wakes up in a total panic. This happens once every couple months or so.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."