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- From: shop@wam.umd.edu (Chris)
- Subject: in control but not lucid
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:55:57 GMT
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- This is the first time I've posted anything. Please pardon my grammar.
- If it really bothers you, then don't read it.
- A little background. I have in the past GMed a few role playing games. For
- anyone not familiar with role playing games, the GM describes an environment
- and a set of situations for his players to react to. This seemed to play an
- interesting role in a dream I had about two weeks ago.
- This feature length dream occurred on a night where a gave myself an extra
- two hours of sleep, and told myself before I went to sleep that I would have
- a lucid dream.
- In my dream I was running an adventure for a set of players. The adventure
- was based on the (book, TV series, radio program, Infocom game) The
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As I described what was happening to the
- players within my dream, the dream would play out my description.
- I thought I'll share it with anyone out there who might, like me, enjoy
- reading dreams. I was also wondering if anyone else out there has had dreams
- where they seemed to control the action but do not know that they are
- dreaming. This is my third such dream.
- The dream, like others I've had, tells a semi-coherent story. This one is
- by far the longest and most detailed I remember having. Yes, I did dream this.
- I am not just making it up!
- _____________
- The dream started with a group of about 20 people sitting at a table in a
- large dining area. They were the players I was putting though the adventure.
- I told them that they hear a voice announcing that the world will
- have to be destroyed. While I'm telling them this I can hear the words being
- announced.
- Every one on earth, including my players, panic and decide to make the most
- of their last few minutes. I am rather offended by display so I shout at the
- sky to go ahead and destroy them now. The aliens do not comply.
- Somehow, I managed to get my group back together at the table. I ask them
- for money to use so that I may buy beer and peanuts. (They need to it to
- cushion their systems from the shock of matter transmission.) When they
- protest, I tell them they won't need the money for obvious reasons. One of
- them must have recognized the reference to the book because he says that I
- must be Ford Prefect. I realize that I have been following the book too
- closely and correct him by saying "No, I am actually Ford Perfect." For some
- reason he felt that was significantly different and I continued to tell story.
-
- I had everyone touch each other while I used the electronic thumb to hitch
- a ride on the ship. They all had to be in contact with each other so that
- everyone would be transported. I did not actually have the device, I just
- pressed an imaginary button on an imaginary transmitter.
- I told them that they are now in a room with gray wall. When dining area
- did not change right away, I stared at the area until it dissolved into a gray
- walled room in an old house. The players were still with me but the table had
- vanished.
- I decided to make sort of a joke to let them know what just happened. I was
- going to tell them that I have some good news and bad news, give them all bad
- news and tell them I lied about the good news. In the dream I flubbed my
- lines. I told them the bad news is the earth has been destroyed and the bad
- news is we have just hitched a ride on the ship that destroyed it. The second
- part sounded too much like good news so the joke failed and I did not have a
- chance to deliver the punch line.
- In a adjacent room was a child in a bunk bed. He must have been woken up by
- the commotion. He was barely awake and did not speak clearly, so we could not
- understand what he said. I figured that he was just complaining about being
- woke up. I said to the players that he was the alien that picked us up and
- that we need Babel fish to understand him. I went off to look for the Babel
- fish dispenser.
- I wandered onto the deck of the space ship. The ship looked like an ancient
- sailing ship. I realized that such a ship could not fly though space so I told
- the players that the ship used the solar winds. I occurred to me in the dream
- that the ship would just tumble though space so I created an image of two
- ships with their bottoms connected. (Pardon my crude illustration) I decided
- that is what the space ship looked like. I told my players that it could
- achieve about 36% light speed. With the relativistic compression of space it
- could travel between the stars. (Yes, I really did dream this part, including
- the explanation.)
- /| /|
- _\|_\|_ <== \ | /
- \ _ _ / solar winds -SUN-
- /_____\ / | \
- /| /| <==
- \| \|
-
- On the deck the ship's captain and the wife of the captain of the guard
- were arguing. I latter decided within the dream that the ships captain was
- actually a ruler of a small interstellar kingdom. While I was physically
- hiding behind some barrels, I was mentally standing next to the two of them
- listing to the conversation. I was also somehow narrating the conversation to
- my players who were still in the gray room. The King claimed that her husband
- was trying to cause dissention in the kingdom. She denied the claim by saying
- the her husbands family has always defended the king and upheld the law. I
- realize the people of the kingdom feel her husband would make a better ruler.
- Therefor, the king is trying to get rid of him.
- I decided, in orderer to keep that plot moving, that our group should be
- discovered. With out actually seeing it happen, I decided that the crew
- accepted us as passengers. I realized that this was an unlikely occurrence so
- I said the Captain of the guard had something to do with it.
- I find the players in what appears to be the first class section of an
- airplane. The crew was serving food. The meal consisted of a bowl of milk and
- a bowl of milk and cereal. I thought this seem too ordinary so I told the
- players not to let it bother them when they see their food move. I looked at
- the bowl and turned the Cherios into scallop shaped discs and made them
- wiggle. I was happy to see the looks of disgust from the players as they
- watched their food.
- In the dream, I thought about what should happen next. I felt that the goal
- of the players should be to take over the ship, and with the aid of the ship,
- lead a revolution placing the captain of the guard in charge. I could not
- figure out how they could do it. At this point the dream faded. I don't
- remember if I woke up of if the dream just ended.
- -----
- I copied the dream down as soon as I woke up. For any doubters out there,
- I really did dream this.
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- "I'm so far ahead of myself, I'll never catch up"
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- Chris
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