TheMushroomLord

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Awesome. Happy Halloween!

Imaginarium: Careful what you think of

Apologies for the delay. This heatwave has been screwing with my insomnia which has made writing somewhat harder than it needs to be.

Managed to get something out at least, but no guarantees it’s any good. I finally managed to get some sleep but I still feel like I’m halfway dead.

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Erin Williams

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.

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Working on that post now. Just to clarify are lucid dreams and dream hopping the same thing, or is a lucid dreaming state simply a prerequisite to dream hopping?

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Sleep is for the weak!

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Also, I'll probably try and get another post out later today if I can. Since I get the impression we're currently trying to move towards the meat of things, where do people want me to take this?

Should I jump right to Erin discussing lucid dreaming with the gang? Speed on ahead to actually preparing to do it? Both? What are people feeling?

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"First you need to get into a lucid state. The best way to do that is to set an alarm. So waking yourself up just as you hit REM sleep should do the trick. An alarm at 3.5 hours after you fall asleep should be about right when you start to hit REM and then when you go back to sleep, you should be lucid and in another realm. The better you get at lucid dreaming, the better you'll get at realm hopping! Good luck!"

@BunniesOfDoom

So is the only thing that actually matters getting into a lucid dreaming state? There isn’t anything overtly occult or otherwise supernatural we have to do to make everything work?

I can say I haven't done this much research into a topic for an rp for a bit lol. Apparently there's a whole thing with lucid dreaming. It's legit interesting lol but one of the requirements is a steady sleep schedule. That ain't happening lol. So no lucid dreams for me xD

@BunniesOfDoom

My understanding is that there are a number of methodologies that can be used to achieve lucid dreams and I'm pretty certain that good sleep hygiene isn't necessary for all of them.

I semi-regularly end up having lucid dreams and my sleep schedule is atrocious – I only sleep around 4-6 hours most days and I'm lucky to go a week without skipping sleep outright at least once, let alone to get regular hours in.

Mind you, I don’t actually know what causes my lucid dreams, but if I had to guess, I’d say some quirk of my insomnia does it; probably either the duration it takes me to fall asleep or the constantly being woken up, since from what I’ve read, both seem to be tied to people forcing it.

In other words Damon, our resident insomniac, a potential regular lucid dreamer?

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You cannot stop us. All the malware shall be ours!

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I did go searching for the exact shade of blue, only to find it looked terrible against the dark background.

Edit: I also found out you can use fake full stops to make links that don't work․

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And that's another post done. Haven't slept in a while thanks to this damnable heat, and for some reason only now as I was writing that post does my brain decide to remind me of the fact, so if I messed something up tell me and I'll fix it once I wake up.

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