Contratonics' Dream Journal

[Caradon]

That's a strange dream. Fun except for the deceased sister part.

[Contratonics]

It was a very different feel to a lot of my other dreams. A lot of them involve picking up in the middle of events with a goal and some obstacles, but not so many feel like I'm watching a scene from a story the way that one did.

03/03/20

Not a lot to report recently, been taking care of other time-sensitive waking life stuff for a bit. It's not really through yet but I'd rather not drop my LD practice altogether. Just one more habit to break.

Handful of fragments from over the past week:

A scene with a small portable stage in the middle of an alleyway lined by forest. Sort of like a map of a city with a park in miniature. I'm standing on the stage with a small deer. Someone pulls a partly decayed adult deer out of a pile of trash bags nearby and sets it down under the stage. It is alive, but disoriented and only partially aware of what's going on around it. The other person tries to hand it a script and give it stage directions while I hold what dream memory tells me is its baby. I'm confused and annoyed that the other person is behaving as if this deer is able to respond at all to their urging.

Brief image of several alien looking people arranged on a grid, sort of a Hollywood Squares vibe. A cursor scrolls over each of them in turn, but they don't seem to respond to it, instead talking amongst themselves.

Short work-related scene involving a consultation with a feathered alien humanoid. Kind of a taller version of what Thiix often looks like. We're discussing creative ways to work around his feathers, and make other species-specific accommodations for certain sound sensitivities.

Image of climbing a dark stone wall with geometric indentations on its surface. I'm attached by a dimly glowing orange cord at my hip to another person climbing just below me. They're wearing some sort of modern body armor that obscures most of their features.

[Contratonics]

03/04/20
Fragments

Scene of practicing with some sort of soft weapon, a shallow hook at the end of a wire. Combined gestures with the held portion of the wire allowed me to move the hooked end in otherwise impossible patterns, tensing the wire at odd angles. When one of these gestures was used, the hook at the end sparked with a kind of pale orange light that dream memory told me extended the effective range of the weapon slightly. I was using it on moving airborne targets.

Scene of moving quickly through a cave or tunnel. My view is in third person, shifting from the side to diagonally. I seem to be sliding or gliding along the ground and trying to navigate through winding tunnels and service access halls.

[Contratonics]

03/05/20
Fragments

Brief image of standing in a crowd of very tall people, walking toward some location I can't see but I know I'm going the right way because dream memory says everyone else is going the same place.

Brief image of fixing the sheets on a bed. There's a bunch of little flakes of something underneath the fitted sheet that dissolve when I touch them.

03/06/20

No dream recall. Last waking memory is my desktop background.

03/07/20
ND

Helping Rally with some of their Host-instinct activities in a public park. Starts out in a grassy clearing with a bunch of people practicing with their dogs throwing frisbees for an upcoming park event. Rally approach one of them with a bunch of huskies who reminds me of a high school teacher of mine (who did raise and train dogs for shows, incidentally) and offer to help work with the dogs so she doesn't have to do it one at a time. We mix up our throws and the dream shifts into an ultimate frisbee match that is just wrapping up.

A couple of people thank us for filling in for some missing team mates and we move on to a concrete-floored picnic area. There's a group practicing some acrobatics there and Rally approach them before I wake up.

03/08/20
Fragments

A couple of disjointed scenes of playing a tabletop game with my old group from college. We're either playing as Garou or Kindred, I forget exactly which. Perspective switched between sitting around the table, acting as the characters and a sort of in-between LARPing kind of angle acting things out in costume. No action in this one that I remember. There's gaps in my memory between these fragments, so I'm calling them separate ones instead of one fragment.

03/09/20
Fragment

Sparring with someone dream memory says is an old friend. Starts off simple hand to hand stuff and gradually escalates to cartoonish superpower levels of action.

03/10/20
ND

Traveling alone through a run down shopping center tracking down some kind of creature using a small device that looks like a high-tech dowsing rod. It's evening, and everything is washed in a sort of orange-yellow glow. I follow it around back to the service area with a handful of truck bays and dumpsters, and start climbing up a caged ladder up to the roof of the building. The creature - sort of a fuzzy, chitinous moth-like thing - appears at the top of the ladder and shoots a thread down toward me. I grab the thread and it pulls me up the side of the building onto the roof, and I wake up then.

03/11/20
Fragment

Short scene of watching a friend from high school play an action game. I called it Bayonetta in the dream, but now that I'm awake I don't think it looked anything like Bayo at all. In the dream he's demonstrating some of the tricks and techniques in the game to me that make the combat in it deeper, but I don't remember any specifics now.

[Contratonics]

03/12/20
ND

I'm driving along a straight highway until I run into a traffic jam. Tons of people are out of their cars walking around on the shoulder, looking for what is causing the issue. I take a walk too and discover an accident a good ways up that gets cleared just as I approach it. Suddenly I'm the only person out of my car, and I try to rush back. I find the whole jam cleared, and my car nowhere to be found.

I continue down the highway on foot, and the dream shifts to repeating scenes of driving through the same offramp / business road several times for different reasons. First I'm racing another vehicle and speeding through lights, then I loop around looking for a shopping center, after that I spill something in my car and pull through a third time to walk into a shop and ask for napkins.

[Caradon]

Oh the driving dreams... So often something weird going on, with the roads or the vehicle or both.

I hope you are getting by alright, with the shit going on.