Project Eden

[M Hunter]

For the last couple of weeks or so I've found myself to be generally more productive, upbeat and determined to accomplish something. The majority of these accomplishments have been more on a personal level which don't hold much merit in the eyes of others but either way I'm trying to do something with myself. I've sat in this room for going on 9 months now not doing anything other than lounging around on my arse and feeling sorry for myself. I've come to accept the people in my head are not my enemies and although at times they make life hard or put me down or get in the way of things if I give them the time they deserve they can be formidable allies.

I've been playing around with an idea in my head for a while now but I've come to decide that I'm going to build a world. As many of you know I train in lucid dreaming and out of body experiences. So far I've had some amazing experiences and now I'm moving onto bigger things. I'm going to build a world. A world I can find when I become lucid and return to when I want. I've entitled this Project Eden. I suppose I've named this after the Garden of Eden ,although an Atheist myself ,but I can always appreciate the concept.

I've started drawing out maps, building layouts using game engines like UDK as well as planing routes on how to get there. The moment I become lucid I will need to find possible portals. For example if I go through a door I will end up on the beach and if I go through a mirror I'll end up in the forest. The reason a mirror leads to the forest is because as a child my sister told me she went through my parents mirror and ended up in an enchanted forest.
There are several things I know I'm including in my world such as a house where all my voices/alters live so I can visit them as well as the house I daydream about where me and my daydream partner live. Also characters I have invented for stories will exist there as well. It will be a lot of work and I don't think I am advanced enough to do this yet but if I keep practicing and believing I will get there. Some of you my not think what I am doing is going to be good for me in the long run. If I build a world that's so good I may never want to wake up but I don't see it that way. I see it as when I'm awake I can focus on tasks that need to be done in reality but when I sleep I live in my daydreams and fantasies. 

I haven't a lot of drawings to show at the moment as everything is just rough drafts and sketches but I'll have more for you guys later.

[funkyowlsforever]

Mann you just reminded me to get a new dream diary!!! (ran out of pages awhile ago lol) Lucid dreaming sounds so fun and intense... I've heard it energises people for the real world better than normal sleep too!

[M Hunter]

I learned UDK at college although I've completely forgotten most of it. It's very annoying :P
I've never tried Source Engine.

[Jeremy Er]

Your learning the Unreal Engine tools? NICE! :d

I on the other hand am trying the Source Engine tools.

[M Hunter]

Well I'm on a forum for lucid dreaming and many of the advanced members have built their own worlds and the idea didn't really appeal to me at first but the more I started to think about it the more fun I thought the idea would be. It's keeping my mind busy and it's keeping me creative. I haven't been able to get there yet but I'm still trying.
As for a business for New Agers, I don't really know. I tend to keep away from New Age stuff as I'm rather skeptical about it and there's a lot of scamming involved, although I do find a lot of it to be interesting and I'm sure there are many genuine New Agers around.

[CreativeWriter]

This sounds really cool. Is this something you can turn into a business for New Age people. They would love it. Seems like already do this sometimes. I didn't think to blow the landlord up but I did yell at a demon once and make it cry during a nightmare. Also I called on a biblical charachter in another nightmare and he dispelled the demon. Dreams can get really wierd.

[M Hunter]

That all sounds pretty intense. So are these lucid dreams? As in you know you are dreaming and have conscious awareness? Or is it just a regular dream? Either way it sounds cool. If you're lucid you could have just blown up the landlord instead of going through the trouble of trying to sue him lol.

There are essentially two ways of getting lucid and thats either becoming aware you are dreaming whilst in a dream or falling asleep consciously so there's no lapse in awareness. The latter takes more training so I'm sticking with the former for the time being which means when I realize I'm dreaming I need to find a way to get to Eden, hence the methods listed in my post. I'll have full control of everything there and it will essentially be a dream world that I can live in. It's gonna take a lot of work to gain that much control though. 

[CreativeWriter]

Okay so Ihave a question about lucid dreaming.  For the last 20 years I've had a dream with the same setting like the kind of city you're talking about. I have a house and an apartment. There's a beach, I know the grocer, there's a park, the same neighbors have been there the past 20 years and they age in real time. I go to work, I have a car, I have a family and I know the area.  The situation changes but the city and people do not. As soon as I go to sleep the city is already there and I'm already  in it. Is that the same as you are talking about? I never had a name for it I just call it the city.

 

The last time I dreamed of this city I had gone back to check on my 3rd floor apartment number 301C and found out I'd been evicted for apartment abandonment. The landlord said I had not been to the apartment in 3 years so he re-rented. I took him to court and everything in this dream. I was hot about it and actually woke up tee'd off  in real life. My husband asked me why I woke up mad and I told him that my apartment was rented out and I was evicted for abandoning the lease. He said, "right, you're crazy" and he went back to sleep. Meanwhile I was ready to beat the landlord up over my stuff and the apartment.