[QUOTE=Oblivious1;29717143]If you're doing horror, don't be too revealing, be descriptive in a non-repetitive way and make sure you give your characters a bit of connection with your readers.
[editline]9th May 2011[/editline]
Most importantly, good characters. No one cares about that one "guy" who died, it really kills the story.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, I have a roughly planned out version in my head, I'm gonna start writing it in a couple of weeks once I've planned out the whole story, then, I'll post it on facepunch and let everyone read. :)
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;29713567]He's OP of v1 and v2 if that helps.[/QUOTE]
I LOVE HIM.
How's it going zin?
Welp, all the sandwich did was make me throw up this morning.
I find a good way of remembering a dream is telling someone about it, if I ever find I have an interesting dream, I tell someone, and also if you forget, hopefully they'll remember.
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;29717143]If you're doing horror, don't be too revealing, be descriptive in a non-repetitive way and make sure you give your characters a bit of connection with your readers.
[editline]9th May 2011[/editline]
Most importantly, good characters. No one cares about that one "guy" who died, it really kills the story.[/QUOTE]
if you must make someone die first, make sure he's black. that's how all horror movies do it
I don't remember much about but my dream last night, but from the general feeling it gives me, I don't want to remember any more. :saddowns:
I'm not sure if i like it, but lately I've been having fragmented sleep, if that makes any sense. I've been having six or seven absolutely CRAZY dreams per night, which i can remember vividly. The catch is i wake up for about five minutes between every dream. i don't know if this is some sort of sleeping disorder, but i guess it's pretty cool so i'll start posting these dreams.
[QUOTE=fritter22;29729088]I'm not sure if i like it, but lately I've been having fragmented sleep, if that makes any sense. I've been having six or seven absolutely CRAZY dreams per night, which i can remember vividly. The catch is i wake up for about five minutes between every dream. i don't know if this is some sort of sleeping disorder, but i guess it's pretty cool so i'll start posting these dreams.[/QUOTE]
You DO usually have about six dreams a night, but usually two or three of them are memorable and the rest aren't really anything special (and even then the bigger ones blend together).
Sounds like you're going lucid in every dream, but you're not realizing it. That's the only thing I can think of that would result in waking up after every dream, and the fact that they're crazy and vivid.
Work on reality checks and dream recall.
Also, BRINK BITCHES. See you in a week.
I'm going to sleep soon, wish me luck.
Good luck.
As it turns out, Brink is a HUGE disaster. Which is hilarious and sad.
So I'll still be here. :unsmith:
The best game is your mind.
[QUOTE=C:\;29734431]The best game is your mind.[/QUOTE]
If only it was a simple click away, but apparently it's as hard as trying to make a severely scratched CD work on a dusty PS1.
[QUOTE=C:\;29734431]The best game is your mind.[/QUOTE]
i've played that game for ten years
i want variety dammit
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;29730923]Sounds like you're going lucid in every dream, but you're not realizing it[/QUOTE]
[b]IMO[/b] the very definition of Lucid Dreaming is that you realize that you are dreaming. If you do not know you are dreaming, but you have control everything in the dream, that's still not lucid. [b]IMO[/b]
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;29733416]Good luck.
As it turns out, Brink is a HUGE disaster. Which is hilarious and sad.
So I'll still be here. :unsmith:[/QUOTE]
Aw damnit.
I thought it was gonna be good.
In other news, first lucid in a few months! Getting back on track, baby!
[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;29736589]The very definition of Lucid Dreaming is that you realize that you are dreaming. If you do not know you are dreaming, but you have control everything in the dream, that's still not lucid.[/QUOTE]
oh shit son did you try to correct me
no, lucid dreaming is not defined as realizing you're lucid. That's an aspect but not the defining factor. Ignoring the fact that it's dream related and therefore fuzzy as far as science is concerned, lucid dreaming is generally accepted as your conscious brain acting upon your unconscious mind's dreams. So regardless of whether or not you realize you're dreaming, if you're controlling things, you're lucid.
There are levels of lucidity, of course, which is probably what you're talking about. A solidly lucid dream would let you control EVERYTHING, which is generally the definition most people think of when you say lucidity, but that doesn't mean it's the only way. Those 'fuzzy' moments where you're not sure what the hell's going on, those are lucid too as long as you somehow alter the dream, which wouldn't happen if you were completely unaware.
tl;dr [b]no[/b]
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;29740424]oh shit son did you try to correct me
no, lucid dreaming is not defined as realizing you're lucid. That's an aspect but not the defining factor. Ignoring the fact that it's dream related and therefore fuzzy as far as science is concerned, lucid dreaming is generally accepted as your conscious brain acting upon your unconscious mind's dreams. So regardless of whether or not you realize you're dreaming, if you're controlling things, you're lucid.
There are levels of lucidity, of course, which is probably what you're talking about. A solidly lucid dream would let you control EVERYTHING, which is generally the definition most people think of when you say lucidity, but that doesn't mean it's the only way. Those 'fuzzy' moments where you're not sure what the hell's going on, those are lucid too as long as you somehow alter the dream, which wouldn't happen if you were completely unaware.
tl;dr [b]no[/b][/QUOTE]
Well in that case, I'm lucid in over two thirds of my dreams.
Technically, yes, but when I say "lucid dream" I usually mean realizing that Im dreaming.
Since this is the most fitting thread, I'll post here something I saw once. Not sure if it's a dream, but I wasn't exactly just imagining it.
So I enter the scene riding a mine cart like those in Donkey Kong Country. The cart's wheels are on constant fire and the edges are decorated with what seem like human skulls. The tunnel I'm in is pretty tight, leaving little to no room to the sides or above, making me stay crouched constantly. Once the ceiling starts rising, I lift my head to look where I'm going. The rails are ending in an upwards curve and what seems like a cliff. I brace myself for the fall when the cart speeds up by itself and launches itself out of the tunnel. I get separated of the cart and land on the desert ground myself. I don't get any injuries, but my knees feel wobbly. It was a good 40 meters fall. I stand up and look around. Behind me is a huge cliff made of pitch-black crystals. The desert continues forever on both left and right but in front of me is a city. A city [U]made of blood.[/U] I have nowhere else to go so I start walking towards the city. After I take my first step the desert floor turns into blood. My shoes somehow keep me on the surface, but I can feel a strong current in the blood that constantly moves under my feet. I keep walking towards the city and it's not long before I reach it.
When I get to the city, the buildings are just blood. Nothing else, they're just a constantly moving mass of blood that have been halted into a certain form. Only now I look up and see the sky lit up in clouds that spew flames and fireballs as if it was rain. None of it rains near the city, but the desert is pummeled by it. I keep walking towards the center, not knowing what else to do in there. Some sort of creatures start rising from the ground, completely formed of blood as well. They moan with a crispy voice and reach for me with their arms that only have three sharp fingers. I walk past them without thinking much. I walk for, like, a few minutes when a bigger creature appears. This one looks like the Hell Knights from Doom 3, except these have devilish horns and they are, like everything else here, made of blood entirely. It lumbers towards me and seems to speak some sort of language I cannot understand with a voice that would make glass tremble if there was any. It sounds like someone's voice has been recorded and played backwards. It's a hell of a lot scarier than those little things that were only half-emerged from the ground with one hand and their head visible. This thing was completely on the surface and apparently intelligent. There were no doors so in panic I ran inside a staircase of a random building. Everything including the stairs, the elevator shaft's grates and the ceiling were all just a moving mass of blood. The monster follows me inside and reaches it's hand out for me as if it was asking for something. I use the chance to step on it's hand and jump over it. Obviously the thing gets pissed and charges after me when I run outside. All the other creatures are now emerged and walk on four legs like a human would. They have now a pale skin with no tan whatsoever and their eyesockets are just black pits with no apparent end in them. I start running from all the monsters and head towards the town square I see in the far distance. As I run more creatures spawn from the very ground and most of the time I just stomp on them. They are blood after all, they get squished but emerge soon afterwards.
When I get to the center of the city what looks like some sort of market or town square, I see an actual statue. This one isn't made of blood but from pure marble. It has a massive sword and a shield carved on it and a carving with a symbol in it. Knowing nothing else I climb on it to get off the blood. Like I thought the little monsters can't leave the floor, they dissipate into a spurt of blood when they try to. The big monster is getting slowly closer, though. I have no idea what will happen when it gets here.
If anyone wants to know the rest, PM me or something. There's a bit more of it.
Oh fuck! I am scared. I used the ideomotor responce thing the OP spoke about it answered all my questions but it felt like I was... unleashing something. I asked it if I could go lucid and speak to it in a dream and it said yes and now I'm so so scared. I know it is me, but I'm pretty warped as a person and I'm so scared.
[QUOTE=glitcherpwnsall;29746257]Oh fuck! I am scared. I used the ideomotor responce thing the OP spoke about it answered all my questions but it felt like I was... unleashing something. I asked it if I could go lucid and speak to it in a dream and it said yes and now I'm so so scared. I know it is me, but I'm pretty warped as a person and I'm so scared.[/QUOTE]
Why would you be scared of yourself? Besides, your subconsciousness can talk to you as much as you want and give more specific answers if you dream and summon it. I on the other hand have to deal with two entities instead of one. Not only do I have the subconsciousness to deal with, I also have an independant branch of my own personality that jerks around every time I try to lucid.
[QUOTE=Sabrina;29746413]Why would you be scared of yourself? Besides, your subconsciousness can talk to you as much as you want and give more specific answers if you dream and summon it. I on the other hand have to deal with two entities instead of one. Not only do I have the subconsciousness to deal with, I also have an independant branch of my own personality that jerks around every time I try to lucid.[/QUOTE]
I really don't want to go into too much detail but I am pretty ashamed of my past, things I've done, people I've been.
I guess I'm scared of the truth. Wow I sound cliched.
[QUOTE=glitcherpwnsall;29746590]I really don't want to go into too much detail but I am pretty ashamed of my past, things I've done, people I've been.
I guess I'm scared of the truth. Wow I sound cliched.[/QUOTE]
Yes you do indeed.
[QUOTE=Sabrina;29746632]Yes you do indeed.[/QUOTE]
Tell you what. I've stopped freaking out so much now but I tell you doing that didn't FEEL right. Anyhow I'm tired I promise I'll give you an update in the morning.
You'll be fine, trust me.
You just got the "meeting-my-subconscious" jitters.
Well, had a series of dreams of varying lucidity
Unfortunately, they were all depressing. Which sucks because I went to bed early accounting for my crippling depression that had made staying up unfeasible.
Incidentally, there was a hint of anti-sub crap involved, though I remember hardly any details of that other than the name "Michael" (no-one I know) and the fact that the point was evidently to make me feel worthless. And there was a part about my cat, except it wasn't as fluffy as similar dreams had been; ironically, this was more depressing because only upon false-awakening did I realize that she's been dead for a year or two. In previous dreams (that had largely ended a few months ago), I realized it immediately, and took the opportunity that I had to feel her once again, snuggling as I laid in bed. In this one, nothing like that happened.
Then after that, there was a dream whose theme appeared to be that of a cosmic movie theater for nerdy people, about nerdy people doing stereotypical anime things. Except it turns out it was impossible to leave, the 'God' in charge was an evil sadistic bastard, the 'viewers' were unwillingly recruited as 'actors', and the only way to do anything about it was to commit suicide. At least, when I tentatively brought it up, the benevolent 'usher' that told us this neglected to answer. She was then recruited as the big-bad that had been offscreen, and the 'heroes' killed her, not knowing the truth. Oh, and this was tied into the fate of man, and accordingly had occured every year since the beginning of time.
Kinda taking the 'the world is a but a play' theme in the worst possible light.
Now, as a disclaimer I have to mention that you guys shouldn't worry about having an experience like this out of nowhere. I had these dreams because I am clinically depressed, and am also undergoing extreme stress. I hit rock-bottom, then the bottom fell out. So unless you're going through the same stuff I am, I wouldn't worry, because this was, in retrospect, totally predictable.
Tl;dr: Don't go to sleep contemplating the meaninglessness of life. It's just a bad move to make
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;29740424]tl;dr [b]no[/b][/QUOTE]
I realized that people have different opinions and beliefs about the definition of LD'ing, so I retract what I have said before, I am sorry about that.
Fuck my ADHD for not allowing me to focus on this. What's the most effective method?
[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;29749150]I realized that people have different opinions and beliefs about the definition of LD'ing, so I retract what I have said before, I am sorry about that.[/QUOTE]
Now I feel like a jerk. :smith: that came out worse than I intended, I apologize as well.
[QUOTE=Sabrina;29745682]Since this is the most fitting thread, I'll post here something I saw once. Not sure if it's a dream, but I wasn't exactly just imagining it.
So I enter the scene riding a mine cart like those in Donkey Kong Country. The cart's wheels are on constant fire and the edges are decorated with what seem like human skulls. The tunnel I'm in is pretty tight, leaving little to no room to the sides or above, making me stay crouched constantly. Once the ceiling starts rising, I lift my head to look where I'm going. The rails are ending in an upwards curve and what seems like a cliff. I brace myself for the fall when the cart speeds up by itself and launches itself out of the tunnel. I get separated of the cart and land on the desert ground myself. I don't get any injuries, but my knees feel wobbly. It was a good 40 meters fall. I stand up and look around. Behind me is a huge cliff made of pitch-black crystals. The desert continues forever on both left and right but in front of me is a city. A city [U]made of blood.[/U] I have nowhere else to go so I start walking towards the city. After I take my first step the desert floor turns into blood. My shoes somehow keep me on the surface, but I can feel a strong current in the blood that constantly moves under my feet. I keep walking towards the city and it's not long before I reach it.
When I get to the city, the buildings are just blood. Nothing else, they're just a constantly moving mass of blood that have been halted into a certain form. Only now I look up and see the sky lit up in clouds that spew flames and fireballs as if it was rain. None of it rains near the city, but the desert is pummeled by it. I keep walking towards the center, not knowing what else to do in there. Some sort of creatures start rising from the ground, completely formed of blood as well. They moan with a crispy voice and reach for me with their arms that only have three sharp fingers. I walk past them without thinking much. I walk for, like, a few minutes when a bigger creature appears. This one looks like the Hell Knights from Doom 3, except these have devilish horns and they are, like everything else here, made of blood entirely. It lumbers towards me and seems to speak some sort of language I cannot understand with a voice that would make glass tremble if there was any. It sounds like someone's voice has been recorded and played backwards. It's a hell of a lot scarier than those little things that were only half-emerged from the ground with one hand and their head visible. This thing was completely on the surface and apparently intelligent. There were no doors so in panic I ran inside a staircase of a random building. Everything including the stairs, the elevator shaft's grates and the ceiling were all just a moving mass of blood. The monster follows me inside and reaches it's hand out for me as if it was asking for something. I use the chance to step on it's hand and jump over it. Obviously the thing gets pissed and charges after me when I run outside. All the other creatures are now emerged and walk on four legs like a human would. They have now a pale skin with no tan whatsoever and their eyesockets are just black pits with no apparent end in them. I start running from all the monsters and head towards the town square I see in the far distance. As I run more creatures spawn from the very ground and most of the time I just stomp on them. They are blood after all, they get squished but emerge soon afterwards.
When I get to the center of the city what looks like some sort of market or town square, I see an actual statue. This one isn't made of blood but from pure marble. It has a massive sword and a shield carved on it and a carving with a symbol in it. Knowing nothing else I climb on it to get off the blood. Like I thought the little monsters can't leave the floor, they dissipate into a spurt of blood when they try to. The big monster is getting slowly closer, though. I have no idea what will happen when it gets here.
If anyone wants to know the rest, PM me or something. There's a bit more of it.[/QUOTE]
It sounds like the creatures weren't really [I]evil[/I], I think they were just after you because you attacked them. Maybe they just wanted your help.
[QUOTE=linksysruler;29751126]It sounds like the creatures weren't really [I]evil[/I], I think they were just after you because you attacked them. Maybe they just wanted your help.[/QUOTE]
They tried to grab my legs all the time and shit, what would you do if something with bloody eyebrows at 45 degree angle came at you, waving their razor sharp clawy arms around? Besides, I'm trying to reach that place again with Waltz, see if I can dig anything interesting from there.
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