If Your Dreamscape Was About to Die... What would YOU do?

What if Godzilla was tearing your dreamscape apart building by building? What if the Blob was gobbling up your dream characters? What if a meteor was crashing down towards the Earth and only you could save it? What if a giant mole rat the size of the Chrysler building was chewing its way down the middle of your dreamscape, threatening to split it in two!?!?

In other words, as the subject title says, if your dreamscape was under attack or doomed in some way–how would YOU save it? How would you play the hero? Or would you play the villain and destroy the doomed dreamscape before time runs out? Or if you’ve already experienced a dreamscape under attack, how DID you save it or doom it?

To make things real interesting for everyone, here’s how to respond:
1) Describe a dreamscape you’ve seen, or describe a dreamscape you want to enter in a dream in the near future.
2)Describe a way you’ve seen a dream of yours fall apart, or make a creative scenario that you wish you could have.
3) And ultimately describe how you’d save the situation or doom it! Dun dun duuuun

Remember, it can either be a dreamscape that you’ve encountered and saved/doomed, or a dreamscape that you wish you would see in the near future and save/doom. This way everyone can participate and just have fun :smile: and hey, it might help with those who like to use autosuggestion and the like for when they go to sleep the next night!


I’ll start with a dreamscape of mine that I had discovered a long while back.

Dreamscape:
Arturo, a persistent dreamscape of mine that’s been around for a good while now. I visit it every so often just to admire the underwater city and the interesting sea life that exists all around it. Over time the city’s grown to about fifteen kilometers across the sea bottom, and the city sectors are safely sheltered in containment bubbles as big as small towns, each containment bubble is connected by tunnel networks and enormous blast gates. This city is actually just a part of a single incredibly large organism that’s grown around the city foundation. The creature itself was the inspiration for the name of the dreamscape–Arturo. Just because it’s huge though, doesn’t mean it’s dumb–what ever kind of creature it is, Arturo was mighty intelligent when it came under attack.

The Scenario:
It was after a few visits that Arturo suddenly came under attack by another city, which also rested on and within another one of these enormous city-sized creatures. Super submarines that resembled squid and cuttlefish, a whole fleet of them, attacked with torpedoes and laser weapons; two containment bubbles had collapsed before things got better.

Solution:
Well, actually I didn’t do much, Arturo actually destroyed the fleet with enormous octopus-like tentacles that were miles in length and wider than a city block. As far as my personal involvement went, I was able to destroy a few of the submarines with energy blasts as well as teleporting into the vehicles and killing the crew.

0.o That sounds crazy, Cube. Your dreams are always so fantastic. Mine seem really dull in comparison. :meh:

In any case:

I haven’t got a chance to explore this city while lucid, yet, but I have seen it throughout the years in my ND’s. It’s a kind of cultural city, like Paris or Rome. Almost every time I’ve been there it’s been night, so I imagine that the night life is something to be admired. There are many bistros and restaurants too, so the food must be pretty good. But, like I said, I don’t know much about it and need to explore it when I have the chance.

It seems like to me that one of the problems I’ve had with LD’s is that my DC’s are very…discouraging. I have a habit of telling DC’s that I’m lucid, and they always disapprove or are indifferent. I can imagine myself exploring this city but then every DC either just staring at me or seeming almost robotic or dead.

In order to fix this, I’d prolly talk to them and convince them that lucidity was a good thing and that exploration is critical to growth. I’d talk to the city counsel and get them to start a campaign to persuade the city folk to talk to me and to accept their situation.