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Do D&D players dream of eclectic sheep? If you have a strange or otherwise fascinating dream (that's appropriate for Eric's mother to read about), post it here.
I've got one. I dreamt once that the world had been invaded by strange malicious invisible demons. They couldn't manifest physically and couldn't harm anyone directly, but they could move objects around, so they could try to kill by knocking over a bookshelf and crushing you or choking you with the cord from an electric fan or something.
So I'm running around trying to survive in all of this, and I find a bunch of objects sort of stuck together in a squat, vaguely humanoid shape. It's moving so I figure a demon must be moving it around like a puppet. I happen to have my bokken handy (I practice a Japanese sword art, iaido), so I pick it up and strike at the thing. One of it's vaguely armlike things is a broom handle, and it uses this to parry. I remember saying, very clearly, "Oh, I wasn't expecting a duel," and then laying into it viciously. I manage to destroy the puppet-thing after a Kurosawa-style swordfight, though most of it was a blur.
But it's not over. The other thing the demons can do to a person is twist their perceptions of reality, so that they see things that aren't there and make them paranoid and insane. I don't know why I know this in my dream, but my vision got swirly and twisted, and I knew it was the demon causing it. So I sit in the seiza position like at iaido practice and close my eyes, and try to meditate to keep my perception clear. This is the strangest part of the dream. As I meditate in my dream I feel like I'm floating upwards, like when you're floating in water and you're rising to the surface. In an instant, I find myself awake staring at the ceiling in my room.
What do you guys think? Did I actually wake myself up by meditation in the dream or did I just happen to wake up when the dream ended? It felt exactly as if I'd meditated myself awake.
-S
I've got one. I dreamt once that the world had been invaded by strange malicious invisible demons. They couldn't manifest physically and couldn't harm anyone directly, but they could move objects around, so they could try to kill by knocking over a bookshelf and crushing you or choking you with the cord from an electric fan or something.
So I'm running around trying to survive in all of this, and I find a bunch of objects sort of stuck together in a squat, vaguely humanoid shape. It's moving so I figure a demon must be moving it around like a puppet. I happen to have my bokken handy (I practice a Japanese sword art, iaido), so I pick it up and strike at the thing. One of it's vaguely armlike things is a broom handle, and it uses this to parry. I remember saying, very clearly, "Oh, I wasn't expecting a duel," and then laying into it viciously. I manage to destroy the puppet-thing after a Kurosawa-style swordfight, though most of it was a blur.
But it's not over. The other thing the demons can do to a person is twist their perceptions of reality, so that they see things that aren't there and make them paranoid and insane. I don't know why I know this in my dream, but my vision got swirly and twisted, and I knew it was the demon causing it. So I sit in the seiza position like at iaido practice and close my eyes, and try to meditate to keep my perception clear. This is the strangest part of the dream. As I meditate in my dream I feel like I'm floating upwards, like when you're floating in water and you're rising to the surface. In an instant, I find myself awake staring at the ceiling in my room.
What do you guys think? Did I actually wake myself up by meditation in the dream or did I just happen to wake up when the dream ended? It felt exactly as if I'd meditated myself awake.
-S
She is an artist by trade and incredibly "handy" around the house (I was amazed when she remodeled her entire bathroom, fixtures and all, without the aid of a plumber). Anyway, on to the dream.
