I've been having a re-occurring dream or I guess you could say "episodic" dream.
The reason that I mention it is that it has some very bizarre properties for a dream.
>It generally takes place in ruins of a temple, city, church, etc.
>Multiple people are in the dream
>There is a period before you fight that you can talk with other people
>The first time you have the dream, you can't remember most of it
>The first time you have the dream, the thing you can remember most is a feeling of "suffocation" and "dying", extremely vivid, but not much else if anything at all
>While you're in the dream, you can't remember your real name, and instead use some strange dream name
>While you're awake, you can't remember the dream name
>Everyone in the dream is aware that it's a dream, but cannot do the things you can usually do in a lucid dream
>Instead, everything follows a rigid logic
>Tokens with bizarre symbols can be redeemed for specific powers, stuff that's usually taken for granted in lucid dreams requires these tokens
>For example there's flight, increased strength, etc. of various qualities and time limits.
>Tokens for changing your physical appearance can be found. They're pretty rare and I've yet to use one for its intended purpose.
>The dreamers are made to compete with one another, sometimes in teams and sometimes individually
>Most of the time you're fighting monsters, but sometimes it takes the form of tests of courage, or one-on-one duels
>You are able to summon a weapon, which usually takes form unconsciously
>Some people get really flashy weapons like guns or even multiple weapons
>Mine is a simply functional bastard sword that's outclassed by almost every other weapon
>Inside the dream, you are being watched over by some sort of demon that you can consider your "supervisor" or "buddy"
>Sometimes they'll fight for you but most of the time they just give bad advice, at least in my case
>There's a possibility of starting out with a strong demon, but I got a feminine imp that is weak and infuriatingly snarky
>There's a possibility that you won't get a demon at all
>Most people without demons die pretty quickly
>Apparently if you have an entertaining/warped personality you're more likely to be brought back
>If the demons take a liking to you, they may give you gifts
>You can bribe the demons with tokens for advantages in battle
>You can bribe the demons with the lives of your team-mates
>After you die in the dream, you don't return to the dream >You can kill/damage your team-mates but only if they give you a reason to hate them. If you bear no ill will, you can't kill them.
>The greater your rage, the more powerful your strikes
>Normalfags die pretty quickly, and I've learned to accept this instead of trying to save them
>Old people are generally more powerful than young people. I get the sense that some have been experiencing this dream for a very long time.
>Time is warped in the dream, it can go on for entire days but you'll only have slept for 10 hours.
>There is usually a "winning condition" in addition to simply surviving. If you reach this condition you retain the tokens you've collected, otherwise you lose them.
So far I've been very lucky, I haven't been selected for any one-on-one duels, and narrowly avoided death on 2 occasions. The duels as it stands are hearsay, actually, as I've never experienced them. Another rumor is that the demons in the dream eventually manifest themselves in the waking world similar to a tulpa. The dream itself is pretty rare, I've had it only five times although it started happening mid-2015.
I'm also posting to inquire if perhaps anyone else has shared this dream. I have no idea what the scale of this dream may be, but am interested in whether it is affecting other people at all or if it's simply an elaborate construction of my warped psyche.
In the case of the latter, how would you interpret such a dream? I'm starting to worry that I may be a little insane. It reads like a shounen manga/anime, so I'm leaning towards the assumption that it's not a "real" thing, if you know what I mean.
If it is real, is there any type of exercise that I can do to gain a more powerful psyche? I have a sneaking suspicion that your strength in the dream is related to your level of imagination and ability to conceptualize things.
In case you were wondering, the strongest contestant I have seen so far has 2 pistols as his weapons and no demon. I would normally expect guns to be beyond the realm of possibility in a regular dream. Thankfully I was on the same team as him. He's a pompous, smug asshole but he's competent which is all that really matters as far as I'm concerned. He didn't answer a single one of my questions, though.