The Glade 4.0

I don't remember what I dreamed last night but I love it when I realize I'm dreaming and can slip into lucid mode. I do a lot of flying in those dreams. It is the coolest sensation. I feel it in my gut.

I was about to describe something I dreamed last night, and then I realized that I really couldn't explain why it affected me the way it did. You just had to be there.

So Instead, I offer this for it's first panel:

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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.

That post brings up a good point. I can't stand "The Most Interesting Man in the World" on the Dos Equis commercials.

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The Dude abides.

I can verify this firsthand.

When I was younger (11 years old), I was fascinated by dreams. I had a huge crush on a gal and I was elated whenever I had a dream about her (nothing sexual). I wanted to unlock the secret of the mechanism in my brain that seemingly was random in assigning things to dream about. I figured that it couldn't be completely random and that there had to be something I could do to put the odds more in my favor.

That was the beginning of my fascination with dreams and a lot more experiments. One of which was that I did not like how I couldn't always recall my dreams or the details were hazy. That is when I experimented with keeping a pad and paper next to my bed and attempting to write down a key word, phrase, or image the very second I woke up. That worked. I don't know how it is for others, but my memory works like a directory on a computer. Once I access the directory's name (key word, image, song, etc.) then the memories come cascading back. So all I had to do was write "Parker Lewis" on the pad of paper and I could then immediately recall forgotten details. There was no need to write a lot. Just a single word or two that summed up a strong image from the dream.

Those experiments led into others, I was curious if it was possible to be aware that I was dreaming inside a dream. I had never heard the term "lucid" until more than a decade later, but that is exactly what I was working towards. And the things I experimented with did indeed work.

If you're curious the thing that first worked for me was to try repetition before I fell asleep. I said aloud "Remember it's a dream" around 100 times right before I fell asleep. My thought was that if I did that enough I could drill it into my head to remember it in the dream itself. After the first few nights of trying this, I was dreaming and I had the feeling that I was supposed to remember something. And then it hit me. I was dreaming. I was so ecstatic that I told the kid I was riding bikes with that he wasn't real and that I was dreaming. He did not like that at all.

As for what I dreamed about last night, it was a cross between plants vs zombies and champions online.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Thats awesome.

I experimented with dreams for a time as well when I was in my early teens. I read a lot of books but didn't really have any success until several years later after the birth of my first child.
I had a couple of what I can only describe as "heavenly" lucid dreams about flying at night among the stars.
Later, my lucid dreams became not so innocent when I fully realized just exactly what I could conjure up at will in a dreamstate.

It's been a long time since I've had one though.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I have this recurring dream where no matter how hard I pull the trigger the gun won't fire.

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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."

Remember, you asked.

I was a new recruit criminal investigator of some sort, and I was trying to solve some sort of theft involving a potentially groundbreaking scientific discovery at a colledge campus. For some reason my partner/mentor was Julia Louise Dreyfus. Before you ask our relationship was (Thankfully) completely professional.

I don't remember the rest of the details, but the alarm went off before we cracked the case.

So in short I'm even a hack when i'm asleep.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Strangely, I have similar dreams sometimes. I'll shoot a **** and they won't die/get hurt/keep coming.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Freud would have a field day with you two.

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Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar.

I think mine are more about control in my life and general helplessness than anything overtly sexual.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Naaa, it is just a normal fear leaking into your dream.

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Raell Kromwell

Sometimes I have a dream where I'll punch someone really hard, but right when I make contact my arm goes Jell-O and they don't even flinch.

Ooo I've had that one a lot! Its incredibly frustrating!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Scenes from Coro's dreams, in order. Courtesy of NyQuil.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I rarely remember anything about dreams.

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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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Probably, but he was sort of a quack.

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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."

Can you elaborate on that?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I have recurring dreams about my teeth rotting right in my mouth and crumbling away to nothing as I desperately try to preserve them.

I also have dreams where I'm trying to run, but I'm stuck in slow motion strides and cannot make any progress.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Freud dealt with people having psychological problems all his life, and drew his conclusions based on that. He didn't conduct any sort of research or studies of people who weren't looking for psychological help. He drew his conclusions based on these people, and developed his ideas from them. Essentially he thought that since he saw crazy people all the time that everyone must be crazy.

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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."

So did all of these people want to sleep with their mothers too or was that just him and he was projecting it onto everyone else?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I *hate* that dream. The first time I ever had to punch someone and mean it, I remember very clearly flashing back to that brand of dream and worrying that I wasn't going to hit hard enough.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

I had one dream that scared the everliving crap out of me.

I was living in this really cool house with a friend. And my ex was living next door.

I went to hang out with my ex one night after my daughter went to sleep, and it was raining, so we were sitting on the extra large window seat enjoying the rainy weather.

For some reason I was shirtless and I had a sunburn blister on my shoulder. I lanced the blister and tried to remove the dead flesh. And for some reason the flesh kept peeling off.

As it peeled off the rain shifted and started hitting the now bare musculature and it burned, worse than anything I have ever felt before. the flesh peeled off of my back, chest, arms, legs, face and head. It was like being one of the models at the Bodies exhibit.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Ok Numbuk sounds like we've had equal experiences in lucid dreaming for a while.

Ever meet your subconscious in a dream? Not as in a dream about you subconscious but you actually encountering the personification of your second mind?

I have - more than once - we make it a point to not talk about much of anything.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I don't go jello - I move so horribly sluggish my impact doesn't do anything but shove them. I can't dodge, block, strike, maneuver...anything. Usually in those dream I wake up wrapped in the sheets.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Neither do I.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones