TheMushroomLord

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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.

The domain name is available!

@Crimson Flame

We must claim it!

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Erin Williams

On the one hand, Erin had been totally correct in thinking that this class would be less than scientifically rigorous. On the other, she’d been way off about it being boring. The guest demonstrator – or he might have been the TA, Erin wasn’t sure – had dedicated a single line to a single reasonable hypothesis on what dreams might be and then immediately jumped off the deep end with crackpot theories about dreams accessing other realities.

Erin wasn’t sure whether the guy was high or having some kind of psychotic break, though whatever it was it’d lasted long enough for him to have created an entire presentation on the topic, even if said presentation was mostly just pictures of movies Erin hadn’t bothered to watch.

Having sat near the back of the class, when the usual demonstrator decided to let them off early, Erin was one of the first to get out, though not before managing to snap a picture of the image link on the final slide of the insane presentation. She wondered if she could have gotten away with filming the whole thing, but after a moment decided it was probably better that she hadn’t; Erin didn’t actually know enough about either psychology or neurology to actually say what was happening with the guy and thinking about it along those lines made her feel a little bad for him.

She decided she’d read up on it more later, either way, the incident itself was funny.

Her phone already in hand, Erin pulled open the group chat and messaged her friends.

Guess who’s already out of class? I am.

8:19

Demonstrator had a psychotic break or something so we all got kicked out early. Gotta tell you guys about it later.

8:19

Absentminded, Erin trudged over to the usual meeting spot, taking a seat before realising she was probably going to be waiting a while given the incredibly early mark. Erin shrugged to herself, shivering slightly from the cold, but not bothering to get up and move somewhere warmer.

She pulled up the photo she’d taken, taking a moment to memorise the link before opening up her browsers and typing in the URL, having to make three attempts when her phone’s autocorrect proved particularly uncooperative to the endeavour. She didn’t exactly trust the link all things considered, but her phone was old, and it wasn’t like she used it for anything important.

The page loaded up, and a quick scan revealed it to be… some kind of niche roleplaying forum where everyone pretended to go on adventures in their sleep? Whatever it was, the demonstrator earlier clearly hadn’t understood that it was a game, that or he was committed to the bit more so than his job.

That said, the people on this site were clearly pretty dedicated to not breaking character. Erin scrolled through a thread where people made out like they were exchanging techniques, and for the most part, their stories seemed shockingly consistent. She searched for an informational or lore page, but couldn’t find anything to explain what these people were going off; maybe they had mods that deleted anything that didn’t fit? Or maybe all the posts were by one person with a bunch of alt accounts and way too much time on their hands?

Erin decided to send another message to the group chat.

This was the guy’s only source dreamsrreal․org

8:25

There are a bunch of people here talking about how to jump into other dimensions in their sleep which is pretty much exactly what the demonstrator was saying up until the class got canned. Really crazy stuff. These people are obviously insane.

8:26

Anyway we should definitely try it.

8:26

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I don't know if that's a real website! I made it up! Don't go really looking for it xD I can't imagine what you might find at the end of it

@BunniesOfDoom

Never have I been more disappointed to find a blank lander page. Unfortunately no matter what I try it doesn't seem to have been archived anywhere.

It shouldn't take too long. I started and ended the class in one fell swoop lol

@BunniesOfDoom

I suppose I should get another post up quickly so Erin can bring this news to the gang.

Having more curiosity than good sense, Erin would probably open that link up while waiting for the others to get out of their classes. Would she notice anything obviously instructional or the like for her to latch onto as a really funny idea to try? Either way, I'll have her message a group chat about the crazy instructor to give people something to respond to.

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No need for such dramatics lol. Just feel free to modify your post! Or if you want to do a double post, that's fine as well. But I don't want your pride sullied by the mere thought of having to perform such an act!

@BunniesOfDoom

My soul tarnished. My hopes and dreams squandered. It is an accursed thing wrought of despair and misery that I have brought upon us here today, but alas it is done and too late to turn back now. Let us hope the value of this ‘double post’ makes worth exacting its terrible cost.

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Erin Williams

Erin sighed as she pulled up her timetable on her phone and realised she had psychology. It was one of those classes she’d picked up on a passing whim, thinking at the time that it would be interesting. Well, it wasn’t exactly an uninteresting subject per se, but it also wasn’t anywhere near as grounded as she’d thought it would be when she’d signed up.

As she walked, Erin pulled open her lecture slides, while lamenting her decision not to just wait the extra year it would have taken to enrol in a neuroscience elective, which probably would have been far more up her alley. Assuming she was, in fact, looking at the right week this time, it seemed like they’d be covering the psychology of dreams today; that sounded a little bit like new-age mystical mumbo jumbo to her, but maybe she was being unfair, and either way, it could still be interesting.

Hey, maybe if she got really lucky, they’d teach her how to make her dreams more interesting, or at least productive – having to waste so much time sleeping every day really sucked. Erin scoffed at her own fanciful imaginings as she stepped into the lecture theatre, quickly taking a seat near the back of the room.

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@BunniesOfDoom Erin is TheMushroomLord's character. Don't know if they agree with me

@Squirrel98

Lies and slander. I've never once heard of this character.

Anyways, the same stands for @TheMushroomLord if he wants to be the one to do that. If not, it's no big deal. We can just have everyone guess a number and force it upon some poor sap.

@BunniesOfDoom

If no one else wants to do it, I'm happy to. It would require I forsake my morals, my pride, and everything I stand for by double posting, but if the greater good demands I must, then that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

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Erin Williams

Erin’s grin only widened at Fae’s comment. “I wish! If one of us were some storybook detective or explorer things would already be interesting!” She groaned, waving a hand in mock dismissal.

Hearing Damon’s proposal and the banter between him and Max, she gave a double thumbs up their way to the idea. In all honesty, she didn’t really care too much about what they did; as far as she was concerned unless someone had a truly novel idea for what to do, it didn’t really matter, and unfortunately, reality dictated that such ideas couldn’t be explored every or even most days.

Despite the fact that today was looking to be yet another relatively normal day, Erin couldn’t quite bring herself to be disappointed. If there was one thing she knew, it was that most topics she pursued – however interesting they may at one point have been – would inevitably get boring once she’d figured them out, but truly interesting people like her friends somehow seemed to remain so no matter how long she studied them.

With that the bell rings, marking it as 8:00 am and cutting her time with her friends short. Erin lets out a groan before trudging off towards her first class.