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Storytelling while asleep
About a billion years ago in college, I used experience every dream trope (false awakening, lucid dreaming, and just extremely vivid, movie-like dreams), along with sleep paralysis (which is kind of like dreaming, but you’re awake). Now I mostly have somewhat vivid dreams if I’m lucky, and the most I can lucid dream is detect that I’m in a dream or wake up on command, but can’t control it or stay asleep.
Dream Terminology
False awakening— A dream where you wake up…but you’re not actually awake. You’re still dreaming and you dreamed you woke up. Bonus if you’re stuck in a false awakening loop. 😑
Lucid dreaming— The ability to control your dreams and be aware that you’re dreaming. When I had this, I basically stopped having nightmares because I could control the outcome.
Sleep paralysis— Not really dream-related, but you feel like you’re dreaming. Sometimes you might wake up and realize you can’t move or open your eyes. And YMMV on this, but a lot of people sense an evil or malevolent entity nearby. IIRC, this really isn’t paranormal, but more psychological.
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Dream: Padmé Time Traveler
Actually had this dream on 10/12/2021, but it’s just been sitting in my drafts folder and I forgot about it till now.
A new Star Wars movie came out. It was the last in a trilogy, I think it was Episode IX? And it almost had the plot of the prequel trilogy, where Padmé and Anakin were gearing up for their wedding. But a time traveler from the future had traveled to Anakin’s past to undo his birth (most likely to prevent Darth Vader from happening). Padmé had no idea why they were doing this, and followed them back in time to undo the damage the other person caused, which involved going to Asgard (yes, THAT Asgard), cuz…yeah.
Picnic dress After the climax, there was a quiet post-battle scene with just Padmé sitting on the edge of the Bifrost just outside the city, in her wedding dress (which was just the “picnic dress” she wore in Ep. II). Before she was about to head back home, she was asked to do another job, which was to be a caterer at a wedding (not hers, since she’s still in the past and this was before her and Anakin even met).
Back to the Future
When she returned to the present just in time for her wedding, she forgot to change her outfit, so she was still wearing her chef’s outfit (the same chef’s outfit from Animal Crossing). There was no time to change, because the ceremony was just about to start, and it worked out, because Anakin was also wearing the same chef’s outfit for some reason, but with pants. Something funny happened, but I didn’t see it because I was on my phone and was completely turned away from the screen (and I thought, uhhh, well I guess I’ll watch it again when it comes out on DVD).
Post-Credits Scene in Star Wars????
There was a post-credits scene in a present day kitchen on Earth during the evening, where someone—I think Nick Fury got into a fight with an unnamed person. The fight ended when Fury pressed the open button on the microwave, and KO’d the other guy–since his head was in the way. Fury took a mug of warm milk from the microwave and drank it. And I had a hard time watching this scene because I was too tired, and decided to watch it when it comes out on DVD.
Then I had the thought, WAIT if they actually included a post credits scene, does this mean they’re bringing Star Wars to the MCU?? (And not because, you know, Padmé—not Jane actually went to freaking Asgard. Or the fact that said post-credits scene featured a prominent character from the MCU.)
(And also I thought “wait, did I just get out my phone in a movie theater while the movie was playing?” and was disturbed).
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Dream: Magical Music
A friend and I were in a city that was being invaded by demons and ghouls. We decided to use music to make them go away, and each bought an electric guitar from a music store. We thought maybe we could play Cura, (forgot the name of the second song) and Curaga, healing spells from the Final Fantasy games. The idea was that the healing properties of the songs would cancel out the undead nature of the bad guys and finish them off. I don’t know about my friend but I didn’t have any experience with playing music (ex. didn’t know what a chord was until a little while ago and didn’t understand the point). So I wasn’t sure if this would work and just enrage them further due to my bad playing.
My (literal) dream guitar
I then woke up and decided to get into guitar anyway and went to a guitar store. These two guys were at the counter when I showed up and I told them what I was looking for. They didn’t say anything and just looked at me expectantly. I got annoyed, thinking what I have to do this myself now? I demanded “WELL ARE YOU GOING TO HELP ME OR WHAT”. They both agreed to help me but the one sitting directly in front of me had to do some employee stuff so the other guy helped me. I repeated what I said before (“I’m a complete noob with guitar so something that’s easy to play would be best. But I generally prefer quality over ease of play”), and realized maybe I never actually told them what I was looking for out loud, and only said it my head, which is why they were waiting for me to say something. I felt bad but the store employee didn’t seem offended and was like “ah got it”.
He went over to look at their current stock and two of guitars he inspected looked like the same exact bright blue in my dream. I grew hopefully, thinking maybe I could have the same one from my dream. But he put them down and instead picked up another with a pale wood finish and said “with guitars, it’s better to have ease of play over quality” and proceeded to get the wood one ready for purchase.
My soon-to-be (very literal) dream guitar I agreed and then noticed as he was gathering the parts, how dinged up it looked from far away. I thought “bleh, I hope I get a discount with this”. And also wondered if what he said about ease of play vs. quality was true and couldn’t help but think that he only picked the wood one just to get rid of it.
And then I woke up for real.
And noo this didn’t make me want to get into guitar for real. I actually tried taking up violin when I was a kid, despite having no musical background. And violin is probably one of the last things I should’ve tried. So…it didn’t go well. It lasted for 3 weeks, and I only listen to music but actually have no interest in playing it.
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Dream: A Trip to Disneyland Done Right
I’ve had dreams where I’m in Disneyland and I get lost, mainly when I get to a certain abandoned hotel. And in this dream, I wound up at Disneyland again, but this time, I was determined not to get lost!
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