Mortal Mist Dreamscape

[Serith]

The mist fills the air, enshrouding and flowing throughout the scene as far as the eye could ascertain. It gives things a mystic aura, and seems not like an obstacle in this realm, but rather essential, like the vital blood that sustained the world. A few steps would reveal a lone tree which reaches beyond the hold of the ethereal white, erected from it's deep roots in the center of existence.

The grasp of it's branches can be seen from anywhere in the mist, and the trunk that supports them has a sacred quality to it, it's dark surface enhanced in contrast to the white mist, as if they justify one another's existence in some chaotic harmony . It has the allure of mystery and familiarity all at once... the underlying prevalence of a thought ever waiting at the back of the mind, not necessarily commanding attention away from the rest of the scene, but always there.

Your goal is to visit the Dreamscape in a lucid dream.  Once you're there, do what you can to explore the surrounding area, and to change it for the better.  Any changes or discoveries made within the Dreamscape will be added to this post, and to the map.


1. The tree is the center, the source and the beginning of the Mortal Mist Dreamscape.

About 300 feet away is an enormous tree. It has a thick base, perhaps 7-8 feet wide. It's about 40-50 feet high and just as wide. The branch pattern reminds me of a silver maple, so there are more branches than the graphic on the front page and the branches are very dense. Normally, the leaf cover would obscure any ability to see past the foliage. In this case, it's obviously fall and most of the leaves have fallen (perhaps 80%). The remaining leaves are a brilliant yellow. Now ... the most unique feature. It's rotating on it's base. The rotation is counter clockwise. The speed is such that it does one rotation about every 20 seconds. So given the size of the tree, it's whipping around pretty quick. I'm completely mesmerized by this scene. I watch the tree rotate perhaps twice, then wake.

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Finally, please use this thread only for posting dreams where you visit, or try to visit, the Dreamscape.  Use the discussion thread (currently in dream sharing, but moving to community projects soon) for other discussion.

[Serith]

Spoiler for: This dream helps to understand the next one, but doesn't relate to this topic, so I'm putting it in spoiler tags  

Symbols
The first dream I remember was set in a strange place, sort of a hybrid between modern times and colonial times.  I was with someone else, and they had something (no idea what) in my backyard that was forbidden by the police.  We knew it was important to go out and get it, or do something with it, but staying inside was our best bet at avoiding capture.  The other person went outside to get it, and when they were captured, I knew I had to go out myself.

I saw them being dragged away, and I think I followed to a distant building.  I was accompanied by some sort of disembodied intelligence, and so was the other person I had been with.  When I reached the building, someone from it saw me, and started chasing me.  The intelligence, wanting to help me, gave me knowledge of how to stop him.

This is the most interesting part of the dream.  What the intelligence gave me was a way of sending out these symbols, which I thought of as letters, but were also kind of like musical notation.  Somehow I sent out one of these symbols, it hit the person chasing me, and he stopped, allowing me to get away.

Snow and Jumping
I was with a group of friends, and we had decided to leave the house where we all were, and walk to a store.  This annoyed me, because the store wasn't exactly close, and it was a cold, snowy winter night.  We kept walking, and eventually reached some sort of tiny park area. 



Interestingly, the brass sculpture on the wall was a guide to the symbols from before, and they covered it's surface.  Unfortunately, I didn't spend much time examining it, and learned nothing.  My friends were annoying me more and more, and eventually, I tried to send out one of the symbols at one of them.  This failed, so instead I used telekinesis to send him up ten feet in the air, and let him fall down.  They found this to be really funny, and they all started pushing each other up to about the same height.

After all this, it was no surprise that I became lucid.  I immediately went to draw a door on the wall, and to direct it to the Mortal Mist Dreamscape.

Just as I was finishing drawing, I suddenly woke up, and found myself sitting in my computer chair, annoyed that my computer had woken me up.  I sat there feeling annoyed for a minute or so, until I woke up for real.

Doorways and Fragments
This dream was focused almost entirely on getting to the Mortal Mist Dreamscape.  I was lucid from it's start, and I frequently faded in and out of the dream, which divided the whole thing into many, many fragments, most of which were lucid. 

The dream's setting varied between fragments, but was usually inside of my house.  And each fragment, I tried to draw a door on the wall with my tablet's stylus. 

Sometimes, the dream faded out before I could finish the door.  Sometimes, I finished the door, but it couldn't be persuaded to become a real door.  A couple times, I forgot to use my tablet's stylus, and found myself trying to draw with a mechanical pencil, or a bit of cloth.  Once I even created a working door, but forgot to give it a destination, and ended up walking through it into a white void, where the dream faded out once again.

Oddly, the method that finally worked was drawing the door on a window.  I drew the door on the window, wrote MM to set the destination, and opened it up.  The setting on the other side was similar to what the other side of the window used to be (which is probably why it wasn't a total success), but it was clearly a different place.  It was much more vivid and colorful than anything else in the dream, and as I entered it, the dream itself became more focused and vivid.



It looked much as I had expected it to, with a light mist, hills, thick green grass, and interesting things all around.  I set out to find the center, and had high hopes that a tree on a hill in the distance would prove to be the center.  However, when I reached it, I was disappointed to find that it was clearly a different tree.  It had a different shape to it, and was only about twelve feet tall, much younger and smaller than I knew the main tree to be.  It felt like it, and some of the other trees I could see from the top of the hill, might be descendants of the central tree, but definitely not the same one.

I felt that I might have been in the far outskirts of the dreamspace, where the trees were young and the mist was light, and that I would have to walk many miles to find the center.  After looking around for a while longer, I woke up.

[DrTechnical]

Excerpt from my DJ entry of 9/25 ...

I start looking for a large or otherwise special tree. I don't have to look very long. About 300 feet away is an enormous tree. It has a thick base, perhaps 7-8 feet wide. It's about 40-50 feet high and just as wide. The branch pattern reminds me of a silver maple, so there are more branches than the graphic on the front page and the branches are very dense. Normally, the leaf cover would obscure any ability to see past the foliage. In this case, it's obviously fall and most of the leaves have fallen (perhaps 80%). The remaining leaves are a brilliant yellow. Now ... the most unique feature. It's rotating on it's base. The rotation is counter clockwise. The speed is such that it does one rotation about every 20 seconds. So given the size of the tree, it's whipping around pretty quick. I'm completely mesmerized by this scene. I watch the tree rotate perhaps twice, then wake.

[Serith]

Second attempt to visit the Dreamscape: 9/26

I landed in a vast junkyard, alone and lucid.  Immediately, I started looking for a good place to draw a door to the Mortal Mist Dreamscape.  There were some large pieces of construction equipment that looked big enough, but they moved on their own in an unsettling manner that I did not trust.  A salesman tried to convince me to draw the doorway on an older one that was not moving, but I decided against it.

Eventually, I found an alley between two old brick buildings that I thought would work excellently.  I took my tablet stylus out of my pocket, and began drawing the door.  I tried to ignore the feeling that something was going to attack me before I finished, but failed.  Naturally, the next thing I noticed was a monster standing at the end of the alley.  It was not frightening, especially since it looked like something out of sesame street, but it was quietly staring at me in a way that made me nervous.  It came charging at me, and I reflexively pulled myself out of the dream.

Fortunately, it was only a false awakening, and I found myself staring at some sort of video game menu, with full memory of what happened.  Somehow, I dropped back into the dream, and was able to resume drawing, but only a few minutes later my vision warped, and the dream ended.

[Alex Lou]

I fly out of the ocean and head inland.  As I'm leaving the beach I see a tree that I think could be the Nina's tree.  It has mostly barren branches, but I get the feeling that that's just how that particular type of tree is supposed to look.  But the surroundings seem wrong for it to be Nina's tree.  There are two streams right nearby, one of which is very close to the tree.  And there is no grass.  So I keep going.

It was really a lovely flight.  I was up in the air for quite some time and really high up.  The sun wasn't out and the earth below me was shrouded in mist on the edges.  At first I was flying over an urban area, but this gave way to farmland.  It reminded me of the French countryside in the spring as I saw it from a plane many years back.  I see cows.

After a while I see what I think I'm looking for, a very green ravine that seems to be leading me somewhere.  I fly in, tracing the path that someone would take on foot, but I stay several hundred feet up.  If there's a path I don't notice it.  In the distance I see the black outline of a tree among the green.  As soon as I see it I'm suddenly laying under it's branches in the grass looking up at it's dark branches twisting across the sky.  But the visuals are unstable and I get the feeling that I'm not really there.  After a few moments I wake up.

[annsie]

The enchanted forest

My youngest boy ( age 9 ) snuggled into bed with me last night ( He does this every now and then even though he has his own room ) and I interestingly took him along into my dream.

We were walking in a small clear forest when we both realised this was an enchanted forest. We could hear the animal talking and even the trees were sort of whispering to one another. My son bent down to talk to a mushroom and I suddenly realised this was a dream. I remembered the MM dreamscape challenge so I asked my son to stay there to play and wait for me while I went looking for the MM tree. I had always pictured the MM tree to be a magical one.

I walked further into the forest where the foliage became dense and it got darker gradually. The sky slowly turned from blue to purpley-navy. The grass was tall as I could feel them brushing against my legs as I floated. After a couple of minute I felt a sensation that the MM tree was somewhere near but I could not tell the exact position. I closed my eyes and a map of the enchanted forest appeared in my mind. I saw the MM tree in the middle of this forest, in a small clearing with no other tree around. I thought to myself " go there" and when I opened my eyes the first thing I saw was the rainbow against the darken sky so I knew I was at the right place.

The MM tree was in the middle. It was quite large and tall. I tried to talk to it and I knew it understood but it did not say anything to me. I walked around the tree and noticed that the leaves were rather thick and large, almost the size of my hand. Suddenly my son appeared and I asked him how did he get there. He said he followed my light. I was not aware I had any light but as I looked down on myself I noticed my hands and feet were glowing and emitting a pale gold light.

I wanted to take a photo of the tree to show my friends but realised I did not have a camera. I was going to materialise one but somehow I thought pictures taken by it will not be visible by my friends IRL. ( I guess this is where dream logic went a bit fuzzy ? Or is this some major realisation that dreams belong to a different plane of existence ? )

Instead I summoned my 2 good friends Natalie and her husband Minh who appeared with their camera. They took several photos of us posing under the tree and the surrounding area too. There was a small hill nearby and we all climbed up there to take more photos.

Next I found myself and my son out of the forest walking along a meadow and the sun was bright as if midday. My friend Minh turned up showing me the photos. None of the ones with the tree in it turned out properly. I was very disappointed. The one with us on the nearby hill was the clearest. I looked much younger in the photo wearing a khaki jacket and baggy jeans. I stood with both hands in my pockets. I thought I looked very tomboyish. My friend Minh said something about there was not enough light for the photos of the tree to turn out right, but somehow I knew it was not to be photographed.

At this point, my son stirred and I woke up.

[mu]

While I was trying to blast off into space in the vicinity of Lucid Castle I came into fleeting contact with the MM tree. My efforts to leave orbit were foiled by millions of little gravitons, and I was forced to endure the shame and humility of merely jumping very high. More often than not, I bounced right back up into the air again.
 When my bouncing had increased such that I was sailing over clouds, through rainbow colored trees with rainbow leaves, through foggy forests and over ancient mystical archaeological sites, I landed once near the trunk of the MM tree. It was precisely the tree in the picture, and I had no doubt as to what I was seeing. Unfortunately I bounced away in an instant.

[Clairity]

I landed once near the trunk of the MM tree. It was precisely the tree in the picture, and I had no doubt as to what I was seeing. Unfortunately I bounced away in an instant.

mu, if you put this post in the December Advanced Lucid Challenge, I can give you credit and cups for completing it! ( http://mortalmist.com/forum/index.php/topic,1537.0.html )

[mu]

mu, if you put this post in the December Advanced Lucid Challenge, I can give you credit and cups for completing it! ( http://mortalmist.com/forum/index.php/topic,1537.0.html )

Thanks Clarity! I didn't think I would be able to do any challenges yet, so I was unaware of what they were. I can't believe I did one.  Thanks again for bringing it to my attention.

[Clairity]

Thanks again for bringing it to my attention.

My pleasure! 

[WakingNomad]

As I feel asleep, I saw four shapes on my eyelids, that looked perfect for forming the tree I wanted to see.

I was in the Void. All around me was white, but for some reason, I could feel the whiteness. It must be the mist.  Suddenly, I was beneath a great black tree towering above me.  It felt ancient and wise.  I wanted to leave something there to be remembered by. Carve my name? no. Spraypaint my name? no. Leave my sword? no.

Aha! Grow a pumpkin.  I grew a large pumpkin, to the size of a large dog, about a great dane's size.  I made it have a picture of the crescent moon on it. 

I couldn't resist. I turned it into a frog.  It was a great pumpkin-frog.  The pumpkin frog began merrily hopping about. I sat on it, holding on to the stem, and laughed at the crazy ride.  I got off of its back. 

There were many pumpkin frogs hopping about, about the size of rabbits. I hoped they would stay there for other people to see.

[WakingNomad]

[INDENT]

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[SIZE="3"]The Tree[/SIZE] [SIZE="1"](WILD)[/SIZE]

[SIZE="1"]NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID[/SIZE]

I was standing before a lovely ancient tree.  I couldn't see the ground because there was an inviting mist that was thick beneath, and all around.  There were rotten pumpkin shells lying about. Blech!  I summoned fire from the sky and burned them up.
There was something about the tree that bothered me. It needed water.  I focused on water coming up to its roots from the ground below, and tiny green leaves popped out on its branches.

I looked around to see if anyone was around.  Nope.  I planted a small flag in the ground. The flag is made of stainless steel, and has a bright rainbow on it with the words: Mortal Mist.[/INDENT]

[Aquanina]

This is so cool! I feel very honored that my graphic has inspired a whole dreamscape for lucid dreamers. I will definitely attempt this.