The Lucid Dreaming Meme

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The Lucid Dreaming Meme
 

 

... and then it hits you: none of this is real. You're dreaming. You've been dreaming all along.

Maybe you'd normally wake up now. The brain is a funny thing, though, and you can't seem to. Must be something you ate. You do, however, realize that you're in a dream - and in dream, you can do anything. Always wanted to dream about flying? It's your lucky night. Want to dream back a lost childhood home? It's there just as you remember, or perhaps imagine it. Been fantasizing about that one cute co-worker for weeks? Well then.

There's only one problem. There seems to be someone else in your dreamscape, and they can apparently control it just as easily as you can. They even have the audacity to claim that they are dreaming you!


All the usual:

• Post with your character's name and canon in the subject line.
• Said character is having a lucid dream, where since they know they are dreaming, they can do literally anything. Fun!
• ... except that the character that comments on your thread is also in the same dream and just as lucid. Both characters can affect the world around them, but not each other.
• Both characters are the "original" dreamer from their perspective, and neither is stronger than the other. Conflicting changes to the environment simply overwrite each other in a loop until one character or the other gives up.
• The setup of this meme is built to facilitate cross-canon interaction: it's probably a good idea to state in your subject line whether you're open to it.
• Tag around and play nice!
• TRIGGER WARNING: Meme may contain unpleasant themes. Please use warnings and browse responsibly.

Comments

[somegomad]

Me neither. [On his end, the sun has gone, the sky is dark and full of stars. More peaceful, sort of. Bit by bit the scenery becomes more complete behind him, hills shaping and rising towards mountains, slopes filled with blue flowers. Trees with silver leaves.]

And besides, you're probably from, what... the other end of the galaxy. Bit big a distance to cross just to get into someone's dream.

[pencilpremonition]

You look pretty human for being from across the galaxy.

[She draws a few more horrorterrors into the air.]

[somegomad]

Hu-what now? ...ah, never mind. [It's not that hard to answer for himself.]

Well, you look like you might be from Gallifrey, but you're definitely not. [A shrug.] Some species look alike. Doesn't mean they are.

[pencilpremonition]

Really? That's so weird. I wonder how much else we have in common.

[Becca draws a house, which then swells up to full sized. She opens the door, and motions for him to come inside.]

Let's sit down and talk...it's not every night you get to talk to someone from another planet.

[somegomad]

...alright. Why not? [So he does enter, even if he's a bit wary, and once again tracks colour into the place like normal children would leave dirty footprints on the floor after playing outside.]

I'm Koschei, by the way. What's your name?

[pencilpremonition]

It's Becca.

[She settles in a comfortable chair by the fireplace. There's another chair, just as nice, right there for him.]