Lumi's Dreaming Thread; Dreams of Moon

[tulpa001]

Yeah, also, you guys officially got me hooked on the sound of touhou. I'm literally listening to it right now.) (trance mix) Also, it tends to always put me to sleep no matter what.

 

Made some progress ourselves on WILDS. Seems like the body is awake or asleep whenever I am, but we get lucid dream like if my host forces herself awake. But it lasts like thirty seconds as far as our memory is concerned, so, eh. Then she sort of loses sanity, and becomes incoherent thought wise.

[Lucilyn]

you're system's been awake for 29 hours? that sounds unplesent. we're barely functional at 18 hours uptime. we hope you guys can get a good night's sleep soon.

 

well obviously I went to sleep right after that post. I was just fixing my schedule (going to sleep at 5/6 AM isn't really good) and happened to have friends keep me occupied 'til really late. Usually when we try to do that around 11AM our eyes start to hurt but mine were fine all day, so only chance of going to sleep was boredom, and I didn't get bored because friends were around.

 

except then I set a new sleep record of 20 hours so it's not too different than before! Sheesh, that's a long time to sleep. Felt fine when I got up too though, so idk. Making up for recent lack of sleep by sleeping extra is scientifically proven by the way! So I don't even have to feel bad about that. Definitely had dreams the whole time and I remembered a whole bunch of them. They were all over the place man, no common theme at all. I forgot any of the specifics now but I was thinking about them when I got up to go to the bathroom, and I know I remembered a couple after that too. I would say our dream recall is better than our average but not quite good enough to be great yet!

 

I went to sleep with a song in my head and woke up with some like, really normal song from Lumi's childhood (parents played a ton of 90s music all the time) in it, so that's interesting. Anyways this popped into my head the other day, it's a video from right before Lumi found out about Touhou! He didn't know that was Cirno until like a year later.

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Also we don't really get tired, just bored or our eyes hurt. Except we get tired when we're really bored maybe.

[Lucilyn]

I'm going to sleep I guess, I stayed up all day and night and day that one time then slept 20 hours then my schedule was messed up again so I stayed up again but only like... 20 hours also, this time. But 20 instead of 29. Anyways it's 5PM so that's an okay time to go to sleep as long as I can sleep more than 8 hours I think?

 

I had a dream about a "haunted house" amusement park style but actually haunted. Like take "haunted house" with ghosts but boring, and amusement park with all sorts of random things but fake, then take out the actual house and add in some ghost busters. It was all playing tricks on me when I thought it was just a little grave or something but turned into a whole 'haunted house' place with ~puzzles I had to solve to get out. And then later on I had a dream where I was a guy who had to set that place up with another guy because our boss told us to, so that was interesting. I think I couldn't figure out how to set part of it up and never got it done and was gonna get in trouble for that, oops. But hey.. they trapped me in there anyways, that's what we/they get

 

More dreams now! It's like playing the lottery a bunch of times every night, I know we're gonna have a lucid dream or dream with us in it randomly at some point.

[Lucilyn]

I'm really bored which as mentioned before means I'm effectively tired so I'm gonna go to sleep I guess. Tomorrow's the full moon so I should switch with Lumi, will probably do that when I wake up, so I guess bye for right now!

 

don't remember many dreams but I did - when I was woken up 3 hours into sleepin' to help fix someone's laptop. At like 8:30PM I think. Then I slept like five more hours to almost 3AM and got up. Noting again that the dreams were totally detailed enough to be lucid-worthy! Just 3 hours into sleep and the dream I was woken up out of was plenty realistic. Nothing special but solid enough to have a first-person perspective and thoughts in-dream! So yeah again we shouldn't underestimate the potential of early-on dreams. Goood night!

[Luminesce]

Kinda bored, kinda tired, and kinda just want to be awake for the night and not the day, so I'm going to sleep. The dream recall thing I mentioned starting right before I left to California is applicable again, so expect results, because I sure do. Though on a full moon something like that might be more lax, there's a different sort of mental awareness during the night that could help with dream recall, usually because I went to sleep immediately after wonderlanding or imposing my tulpas. Though I'm thinking I'll do that when I wake up, at night, and not now when I'm tired, during the day.

 

I posted this in the video games thread a month ago and it got literally zero views to this day, so I guess I'll just leave it here. It's worth a little more than that...

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[Luminesce]

It's been a long time since I really spent time with Flan - she's been waiting since I was in California, she more or less kept me company when I got home every night and had to wait for my feet and legs to stop hurting before falling asleep for a week or so. But unfortunately I could never really focus on her and not my feet/legs hurting, or I was just really tired and got home late. But we spent some time together, music and all this time, and I forgot just how much I loved that song.. The "Song That Shall Not Be Shared" I suppose. I kind of forget about it when talking about my favorite songs or just songs I like - it transcends ranking or rating, like Jumper and Edge. It's a song with very powerful emotions attached, happy ones, but about Flandre rather than Reisen. And it seems like she'd rather keep it to ourselves, like Tewi used to with her favorite song. Before she saw it didn't really exist on the internet and subbed a video of it herself. Anyways...

 

Dream recall was hit and miss, mostly miss. There were several times where I just could not remember what I'd dreamed immediately after waking up, but one specific time where it was a total blank but then I remembered a bit which led to remembering all of it in a sort of chain reaction. That was significant. That's the sort of thing that really improves dream recall. But yeah, I'm having trouble remembering the dreams I'm waking up out of, through no fault of my own. I'm not distracted or anything, our brain just removes our memory of dreams the instant we wake up most of the time. But sometimes I can get them, and if I do it'll get easier over time. I do wonder why I'm just now having trouble recalling dreams though, Lucilyn didn't seem to have a problem with instantly-deleted memories of dreams. But I think it's just because I'm focusing on them more than she was.

 

That's about it, as typical progress as possible I guess. But I should be fronting primarily again now so I can work on my recall/dream clarity again. Not that the others don't, they just.. aren't as desperate as me, I suppose.

[tulpa001]

I am surprised there was no stool at the place you were working at. I felt for sure Tewi would have noticed the problem when she took over and pulled a stool over to the stand.

[Luminesce]

I wish that helped. We had one (after the first day), but it only helped so much. Standing half the time and sitting on a hard stool/chair the other half for ~11 hours straight was pretty dang bad. We needed ibuprofen to go to sleep the first four or five of eight days I think. Honestly I tend to just sit in my (nice) chair at my computer the majority of the time so I just wasn't used to it, after the fifth day it didn't really hurt anymore. So it wouldn't be so bad in the future. That being said, Tewi said the job was beneath her and she would rather find us something else to do for money than that. So I guess we'll see how that goes.

 

My dreams must have been immediately deleted from existence after I had them, because all I can remember is the foggy-hazy thoughts and imagery of the games I've been playing too much of recently. Lots of conveyor belts from Factorio and even the

(I was playing in TF2 not CS:GO, but that is one of the maps I played. Feel free to watch the whole video). Not quite the tetris effect, although I have certainly had that before (Pokemon Shuffle was a mistake). So I don't really know what to say about that, I'm still actively attempting recall every time I wake up. Though last night I didn't really "wake up" until five hours in for whatever reason.

[Luminesce]

Had a dream or two that were pretty inspired by playing games with my friends. Still having trouble actually remembering any, for some reason. Also, I went to sleep at 2AM and woke up at 7AM, for some other reason, just wasn't tired. Gonna go to sleep now and, I don't know, keep trying to remember dreams? I wish the early part of the night wasn't going by so fast recently.

[Luminesce]

Stayed up late playing Killing Floor 2 with friends since it's free for the week, though I bought it because it's also 50% off. The thought crossed my mind when thinking about who I should spend some time talking to, that I should talk to Lucilyn. Made me realize that even though she gets plenty of switch time recently, that's not necessarily time spent with her. For the last few years I've tried to make sure none of them go too long (compared to the others) without being "active", but since we more or less count switching as activity I guess I might go a while without just talking to them sometimes.

 

I can just tell... my foggy-hazy thoughts while I sleep are going to be about the reloading of shotguns and aiming/leading my shots to heal people. Maybe some contemplation of the satisfaction of killing things with the shotgun, too. I can just feel it. My mind always obsesses over the thing I obsessed the most over in a game, Factorio being the conveyor belts (finding where resources are bottlenecked) and Bhopping being the strafing (building speed and... everything else). Most my time in Killing Floor 2 was either monitoring peoples' healths to heal them or conserving shotgun ammo. Now dreams on the other hand, I can't really say. I had a "Factorio" dream where I was "playing" with my friends, but the world was 3D and I was myself, and there was no technology just the aliens. Dreams are still pretty random, if I remember them.