Since it seemed as though all her friends were more or less on board with things, much of the rest of Erin’s day was spent reading through the odd forum her probably insane demonstrator had posted, trying to figure out what the ‘optimal’ process was supposed to be for all this dream jumping stuff.
After some searching on the internet, Erin was pretty sure all the techniques described were for the most part procedures intended to cause lucid dreams, which would certainly support her earlier hypothesis that this was just a rather odd roleplaying community – one wherein the participants dressed up the techniques in false mysticism and then presented the contents of their dreams to one another as though they were real events.
On the one hand, that was significantly less amusing than her hope that everyone on the site was just batshit crazy as her demonstrator had seemed, or that it was just one guy with like a hundred alts, a lot of free time and an insane commitment to the bit. On the other hand, it did make her somewhat more interested; lucid dreaming wasn’t actually something she’d ever thought to try, and even without magical dimensional travelling it ought to be pretty interesting.
After going on a bit of a tangent reading up on techniques for lucid dreaming, and the topic of lucid dreaming in general, Erin couldn’t help but notice there were some slight differences in the recommendations provided on the forum as compared to the rest of the internet that stood out as just a little unusual.
The fact that there were differences at all didn’t really stand out as odd – from all that she read on the wider internet, it almost seemed to Erin that every man and his dog has their own protocol for lucid dreaming. No, what struck her as being odd, was the level of consistency shown on the forum. Sure, they still seemed to have a million and one different techniques and variations thereof, but there seemed to be a certain level of consistency to them that wasn’t necessarily seen elsewhere Erin had looked.
Clicking through the section of the forums dedicated to beginners, Erin even managed to find a bunch of threads asking about or dedicated to explaining what techniques were better or worse for dream jumping as opposed to regular lucid dreaming.
The fact that people even acknowledged lucid dreams existed and were actively discussing them struck Erin as a little odd; they were super dedicated to keeping up the façade of mysticism around every other aspect of this whole lucid dream journal thing, but they also acknowledged the existence of actual mundane lucid dreams and even had some kind of lore about it?
Reaffirming to herself that this whole forum was kind of insane Erin couldn’t help but grin to herself as she thought about how fun she was going to have testing it all out. Then Erin glanced at the time and realising she’d gotten distracted once again, her grin faltered, though only for a moment before she hurried off to find her friends, eager to chat their ears off about everything she’d read and better yet get them all together to try out this whole dream jumping thing.
