Lumi's Dreaming Thread; Dreams of Moon

[Flandre]

Dude we don't think you lucid dream every night lol, I have no idea where you got that but you're talking as if I just said it thrice.

 

We're on the second page of this thread a week early, this is gonna get out of hand. Maybe we should put a day count in each post? But that sounds depressing. We'll just go by the date the thread was made I guess. If it benefits anyone then I suppose discussion of dream-stuff is alright here, though remember it's our thread. Like a progress report for dreaming.

 

 

By the way, the title of these posts does not mean what you think it does. It's a built-in reality check to our dream thread; "Flandre is dreaming".

[Guest Anonymous]

Okay. Well that's good. I felt I was making you feel bad with my constant bragging (do I brag about Melian too much? Naw, c'mon that's silly). Well there is the regular Dream thread for general discussions of dreaming. We will keep our comments appropriate and limited here. We can always bring stuff from here over to the general dream thread if need be.

 

Anyway we will be reading! Good luck. Maybe talking about it all will help!

[Flandre]

We had a few more solid dreams last night, three I could remember at least. Probably because I slept for 10 hours, that's more like it. We got melatonin so maybe it helped.

 

For now we're just going to be working on dream recall, because paying attention to our dreams seems to make them more vivid. Really, not just because we remember them better lol. Usually when we remember dreams it's because they didn't get instantly-erased like they normally do, so we remember them just fine. But when we don't practice dream recall for a long time dreams get more scattered. We dreamt we were playing an interesting game with our friends last night, as the characters of course. Better than the nonsense we've gotten the last few days.

 

This is probably the most relevant song we have to this thread, along with Lucid Dream ("That day, in the landscape I envisioned, four white shadows fell...").

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"Are you really giving up after all this time, without catching those dreams you pursue?"

[Luminesce]

Remembered a few dreams last night, but one was so long it literally made me forget the ones before it. Slept another 10 hours, but that's really normal for us. I won't take the melatonin tonight to test if it actually has any effect, because I don't think it does. Apparently it put my little sister to sleep even though she'd only been awake from 5 to 11 PM. It's not even supposed to do that really. But anyways, no drugs of any kind affect me very much in my experience. Which is a real problem when it comes to being numbed for surgery. I had my bottom wisdom teeth taken out without realizing it wasn't supposed to hurt, because they'd already given me more of whatever the numbing stuff is than they give others. That's kind of the worst pain I've ever experienced, but I have a lot of tolerance for pain so whatever. You don't exactly have tolerance for motivation issues, so it's nice that anti-depressants don't affect me either.

 

Stuff like Nyquil that's supposed to help you/put you to sleep has some effect on me, if I let it. None of that stuff will make me tired, but it does help me actually fall asleep if I'm trying to.

 

Anyways we're gonna run out of relevant music pretty quick here. We have a genre on our itunes labelled "Dream" for what we consider sleeping music, so I guess we'll post some of those 'til we run out. But a lot of what I consider sleeping music is probably far too fast/loud for most people lol, so I can't put it all here.

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[Luminesce]

I almost fell asleep last night trying to talk to Flan, stayed up pretty late (2:30 AM) playing my 3DS. I was hoping for that effect but it worked better than I expected. At one point I fell asleep for what must've been 20 minutes and had a dream (how?) I was talking to a friend at my desktop but was having trouble seeing because it was so dark. My movements were really sloppy too, then I "realized I had my sleeping mask on", and I took it off and woke up. I don't wear a sleeping mask at 2 AM.. Just when I need to sleep through the day. Anyways, even though we always fall asleep if we get to that point while trying to organize any sort of lucid dreaming efforts, it is a state we're aiming for. Unfortunately that only happened when I went to bed 5 hours later than two days prior. Melatonin wasn't involved. We'll see if it happens again.

 

I can actually get to that point by listening to music for maybe 40 minutes at a reasonable (awake for 16+ hours) time. Speaking of, pretty much the only music I have left to link is what I listen to to fall asleep. That's barely enough songs to make it to the next page, so don't expect music on every post forever. Anyways, these next ones will be what I consider "sleep music". A couple of them are tied to some pretty strange memories/feelings, because I've purposely associated them with being almost-passing-out tired. Sometimes actually passing out with the one by Ruxia..

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[Luminesce]

Yeah, slightly less so, but last night too I got to the point where it was hard to keep my thoughts straight. At no point should trying to talk to Flan involve moving one of my characters over a few tiles and interacting with her. I've been playing Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance 2: Grimoire of the Rift for 3DS) in bed until I have trouble keeping my eyes open enough to keep playing the game.

 

Tonight though, I'm going to put on headphones when I get to that point and listen to my sleep playlist. I cannot fall asleep with music playing. Though I've drifted out of consciousness in the past, specifically because of one song, I always wake up when it ends. Actually, when my literally-most-played-song-on-itunes reaches the last 20 seconds it brings me back, just because I recognize the faint rhythm changes and it feels like "wake up" to me. The number of times I've passed out 30 seconds after it ended and I took my headphones off is pretty close to the number of plays it has. Anyways, the plan. Flan and I are going to sit on a bench under a waterfall in our wonderland (decided it was the easiest place to focus without distractions) while I'm deliriously tired and having the music playing. My thoughts are undoubtedly going to go all over the place, but I can't fall asleep listening to music (or on my back), so whenever I remember or at least between songs I'm going to refocus on the wonderland. Flan and I will try to speak to each other, but the important thing is that we both end it by saying "Okay" before my thoughts wander again. I can't let them wander until we both say it. Similar to reopening my eyes as I drift off to look back at my game, it'll help me stay focused while falling unconscious. That's the goal, anyway.

 

We'll see how that goes, about an hour from now. Anyways all this talk of this song that always puts me to sleep.. isn't reason to link it yet. It's last on my sleep playlist, of course! So how about, in line with the delusions of being half asleep, I link my weirdest one?

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I did a little research on Shpongle a while back. They're undoubtedly "Music for people on drugs, by people on drugs". I imagine it puts the "trip" in "tripping" for a lot of people. The majority of people who listen to their music are on some kind of hallucinogen, I'm not even exaggerating. Well, the way your thoughts (don't) work when you're basically asleep is a similar effect, so it still compliments hallucinations for me in that aspect lol. Also just a cool song in general.

[Luminesce]

I should probably write these closer to when I wake up, but I can remember well enough. So there was a lot less thinking than I expected in my not-quite-conscious-ness. I didn't have too much trouble talking to Flandre between the six songs. Although I completely just, missed the last one. When I became aware the song was already over and I could not remember listening to it, but I must have? iTunes says I did. Anyways, it's as disorganized a process as is physically possible, dealing with the inability to think clearly in the first place. But I'm sure that just trying to do so will make some kind of progress in maintaining consciousness while/near being asleep over time. Guess we'll see. I'm not gonna stop anyways.

 

This one's nice.

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[Lucilyn]

Lumi says he's gonna spend a night with each of us over the next four days before school starts, with us switching during the day first (up to us whether we switch back that night). But I don't fancy going to the dentist tomorrow! so I will be switching back before we fall asleep. What's spending a night entail? I dunno. Probably different for each of us. I like visualizing myself in the wonderland swimming and stuff. Even him and Flan did that recently so I'm sure we can too. I never really had someone else in my part of the wonderland with me, maybe it'll be fun.

 

Oh dream stuff. I don't know. Let's say, "Having them active in my mind makes them more likely to show up in my dreams" for Lumi. But really we're just spending time together. I think that is OK to do instead of the dreaming stuff (though I guess we'll just always be practicing staying aware while falling asleep now) since the dreaming stuff is just for us in the first place. Also I have no idea what Lumi and Tewi are doing after Sunday. They'll be discussing that on Sunday so I guess I couldn't know!

 

Here's (what I consider) sleepy music of my theme!

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Echooose~

 

Lumi edit: Fixed the video link AGAIN, this time to a version that loops with some cross-fading after 6 minutes. Doesn't sound as nice as the ending to the original (what she was referencing with "Echooose~"), but Youtube is determined to take down all the music we like, so..

[Reisen]

Hmm, we won't be working on lucid dreaming so much these few nights. But we are still working on staying aware while tired and visualization, so that is okay. I think all of this nighttime pre-sleep activity may be beneficial just like working on dream recall is, increasing our awareness during those times. But we're also just spending time together, yeah?

 

I don't know what to title my post. "Moon" and "Love" are already taken. And Tewi is "Dreams of Rabbits". Maybe.. Dreams of Fun-Loving Moon Rabbits?

 

Here's our main sleepy-song related to me.

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[Flandre]

The others left too little time to do any real activities before falling asleep, but I'm leaving hours. I will remind Lumi to recall his dreams too.

 

We aren't sure what our schedule's going to be like yet, but it seems like we might be switching nearly every day once school starts. It might be Tewi every other day posting here, or maybe Lumi will be handling more of the work than before. Depends on how hard our classes are.

 

I don't really have a "sleepy" song related to me, I don't have that many songs I associate with me in the first place. The ones I do aren't very sleepy. So I'll just post another of our Dream songs.

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