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Chopstick Hero!!
16 years ago
I had an ... interesting ... dream last night.
It was about a video game. The point was to see how effectively you could use chopsticks. Think of it as Chopstick Hero™: instead of a regular controller, the user interface was a pair of wireless chopsticks.
I've always been told that with chopsticks, style and technique are secondary to actually getting the food from dish to mouth. That's how the game was scored: by the quantity of food you could scarf down in a given amount of time. Different kinds of food were easier or harder to handle, just like real life. The courses weren't just limited to Asian cuisine, either -- so long as it was in bite-sized pieces and "chopstickable", it was evidently fair game.
Now, flailing around with chopsticks in mid air wouldn't have had much tactile feedback (or much challenge), so for every onscreen dish, we had a dish of real food in front of the controller. That might just have been the way we were playing it, though.
(Don't ask me who "we" were. I just know I wasn't the only one there. I think I was the only one actually playing, but I always had a fresh dish in front of me for each round.)
Yes, loyal readers, expanding bellies were part of it. Why else would I be posting about it? The bigger your belly on-screen, the better your score. (I don't think anyone will be surprised to learn that my on-screen avatar was a cute little cartoon bat.) Of course, with real food involved, I was filling up nicely off-screen, too.
I was doing all right in the first few rounds, but nothing exceptional. Finally, I realized that nothing said I had to eat politely, and instead of leaving the dish on the table, I picked up the bowl in one hand and started just shoveling the contents in with the chopsticks in the other.
Unfortunately, just as I'd gotten the hang of it, and was settling in for some serious scoring, I woke up.
I was just about finished with the round, too. It was ravioli! I love ravioli!
I don't often get these dreams -- once every few years, maybe.
I want more!
It was about a video game. The point was to see how effectively you could use chopsticks. Think of it as Chopstick Hero™: instead of a regular controller, the user interface was a pair of wireless chopsticks.
I've always been told that with chopsticks, style and technique are secondary to actually getting the food from dish to mouth. That's how the game was scored: by the quantity of food you could scarf down in a given amount of time. Different kinds of food were easier or harder to handle, just like real life. The courses weren't just limited to Asian cuisine, either -- so long as it was in bite-sized pieces and "chopstickable", it was evidently fair game.
Now, flailing around with chopsticks in mid air wouldn't have had much tactile feedback (or much challenge), so for every onscreen dish, we had a dish of real food in front of the controller. That might just have been the way we were playing it, though.
(Don't ask me who "we" were. I just know I wasn't the only one there. I think I was the only one actually playing, but I always had a fresh dish in front of me for each round.)
Yes, loyal readers, expanding bellies were part of it. Why else would I be posting about it? The bigger your belly on-screen, the better your score. (I don't think anyone will be surprised to learn that my on-screen avatar was a cute little cartoon bat.) Of course, with real food involved, I was filling up nicely off-screen, too.
I was doing all right in the first few rounds, but nothing exceptional. Finally, I realized that nothing said I had to eat politely, and instead of leaving the dish on the table, I picked up the bowl in one hand and started just shoveling the contents in with the chopsticks in the other.
Unfortunately, just as I'd gotten the hang of it, and was settling in for some serious scoring, I woke up.
I was just about finished with the round, too. It was ravioli! I love ravioli!
I don't often get these dreams -- once every few years, maybe.
I want more!
Well, then you'd better learn to control them. It's more reliable than trying to incubate the scenarios. And it's more of a long term investment to learn how to control dreams perfectly, but the journey isn't really boring, and some people just seem to have a knack for it. You just need to know that you're dreaming, when you're dreaming, which gets much easier with regular practice.
It's an option out there if you really wanted it. You could even be the bat, which I think is pretty cool.
... this may be entirely the wrong kind of motivation, but if I've learned anything over the years, it's that the "wrong" kind of motivation is often the most EFFECTIVE kind!
Any good suggestions on reference material? Lucid Dreaming for Dummies, perhaps?
I don't know about good reference material. I own two books on it, but I could never read them through all the way. I didn't even buy them. I just frequent a dedicated website and keep a dream journal on it. I'm pretty sure anything would be helpful, but, I would personally avoid anything that gets spiritual, because I believe those make assumptions about dreams that cannot be proven.
I try to follow that philosophy in just about everything I do.
What do you think you would do? I'm pretty interested in that.
I should note that the major recurring element in His Official Capacity is a series of lucid dreams of that nature.
... at least, the protagonist thinks they're dreams ...And... "excitement" is one of the things that can wake you up, but it doesn't have to. Be wary of it, and try to keep the dream stable.
I'd like to know if you ever make it happen♪
Yes, the stories are marked "Mature". The content isn't much different than the general-audience images I've posted; somehow, though, it just seems more explicit when it's text.
I seem to be making headway on the first step in lucid dreaming: remembering my dreams. That's still erratic, but now that I'm making a point of trying, more of them are coming back to me in the morning.
I don't really like my icon, but it doesn't clash with the background very much. Yeah, I'm 17, so I can't view "mature" pages, but I wouldn't if I was 18 either. I can imagine the exact way you wrote those stories factored into the decision to label them mature.
Have you been doing any reality checks? The easiest method to have LDs is just to constantly chek if you're dreaming, a lot of the day, the more the better. Always know how you got somewhere. You could probably have them regularly in a very short while if you could keep it up. Most don't, but for no good reasons.