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Mebrithiel Ju'wien
Anshar Incorporated
#1 - 2017-04-13 00:36:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Mebrithiel Ju'wien
I woke up to the sensation of hot breath on my neck and a nail tracing my skull.

There was no-one there and I was in my bed. I knew I was dreaming still. The station was of Federation style but the lights were glowing a warm red, as if in warning.

I didn't feel threatened.

I drew my sheet around me and wondered from my bed to the comms screen but it was all static and hissing. My planets were on fire and my contacts list were all deceased... permanently.

I looked out to my ship but there was none there, so I turned towards the station concourse door.

It opened before me and I stepped on black sand and it seemed that the warm breathe of earlier may have been from this endless beach in front of me.

The sound of splashing waves was playing to a cacophony of wails and moans, and to my side I turned to see a sea - writhing and red; bloody tendrils trailed towards it from the tender warmth of the sand as it sloshed to and fro.

I felt no fear from this mass of writhing fluids and waded in near waist deep to feel the delicious liquid lap around my thighs. I could feel its heat close and tender, and I felt aroused.

But above me came the moans and wails from an endless black that stretched horizon to horizon. I could feel... fear? No. It was something between curiosity and in-trepidation. Great, endless power resonated from deep within this bottomless, bathophobic void. My heart beat quickened and I hesitated before reaching out to touch that sky.

And the sky-void reached back.

But here is the blood still and all the perfumes of Aridia will not sweeten this little rose ♥
Erica Dusette
Division 13
#2 - 2017-04-13 03:09:38 UTC
Interesting and vivid dream.

If it alarmed you perhaps try adjusting the environmental controls in your quarters.

I find my dreams are more frequent and lucid when the temperature is a little too hot.

Jack Miton > you be nice or you're sleeping on the couch again!

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Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#3 - 2017-04-13 03:37:15 UTC
O ... kay. Someone has darker dreams than I do.

(Also more symbolically unambiguous and consistent. Was this actually a dream?)
Doctor Valate
Delve Medical Services
#4 - 2017-04-13 05:39:34 UTC
Aha ! Dream interpretation. Well, that's quite a controversial field. Some people consider dreams to be prophetic and revelatory and so on, other people consider dreams to be your brain re-arranging memories while you sleep and things of that nature.

And other people consider dream interpretation to be complete bunk.

Out of academic interest though, have you ever dreamed about the following:

Flaming Skulls, that shout religious-sounding statements.
Horned, winged, four-armed demon women.
Being an asteroid that impacts upon an inhabited planet at several km/sec.
Talking slaver hounds.
Fighting Skeletons.
Giant space cephalopods.
Hatching from an egg inside the nest of a giant bird of prey.
A sense of being watched, and turning round to make eye contact with an enormous lobster several hundred metres in length.

Doctor Valerie Valate. Not to be confused with the other Valerie Valate.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2017-04-13 07:00:57 UTC
What few dreams I can remember tend to be either completely incomprehensible or involving megastructures populated by lifeforms whose organic and mechanical parts have so intertwined any distinction between the two is practically meaningless.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Kasuko Merin
Anshar Incorporated
#6 - 2017-04-13 08:38:40 UTC
Aria Jenneth wrote:
O ... kay. Someone has darker dreams than I do.

(Also more symbolically unambiguous and consistent. Was this actually a dream?)


Mebrithiel's been in with some of the more, ah, rarefied members of the Group. Who really knows how she works at this point?

Still works, though.

It was worth it. All of it. Every single second.
Yarosara Ruil
#7 - 2017-04-13 10:46:12 UTC
Dream journals are dumb.
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#8 - 2017-04-13 12:11:00 UTC
Your dream made sense and it is saying that you need to stop being awful.
Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
#9 - 2017-04-13 12:16:19 UTC
Ms. Ju'wien has had a premonition of the Blood Age, but in her mind the Blood Age is not a union of the Red and Gold, that is, of the Sani Sabik and the Amarr, but of the Red and the Black, that is, of the Sani Sabik and Sansha's Nation. The black sky in her dream represents the Sansha Hive mind, which is a of course not only a place of torment for those assimilated into it but also a source of power to which Ms. Ju'wien is attracted and which is in turn attracted to her.

The beginning of the Blood Age will of course follow the apocalypse of the current Golden Age; hence in Ms. Ju'wien's dream is the destruction by fire of planets and the death of everyone on her contact list. She is also correct that in the Blood Age the very seas will be of blood and a pleasure to the Chosen. She is wrong, of course, that Sansha's Nation has any role to play in the Blood Age, and I pray that she turns from the Black toward the Gold.
Jev North
Doomheim
#10 - 2017-04-13 12:49:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Jev North
Aria Jenneth wrote:
(Also more symbolically unambiguous and consistent. Was this actually a dream?)

From what I remember her telling me about it right after waking up, this is slightly cleaned up and a lot less rambly, but essentially truthful.

Doctor Valate wrote:

Out of academic interest though, have you ever dreamed about the following:
[...]
Being an asteroid that impacts upon an inhabited planet at several km/sec.
[...]

It's funny you should mention that. Not impacting so much as tumbling silently through the void, mathematically pre-destined to plunge into a thin, fragile biosphere somewhere down the line.

Nauplius wrote:
.. but of the Red and the Black, that is, of the Sani Sabik and Sansha's Nation..

Old man Kuvakei has as much claim on the element of Void as your mother does. That one properly belongs to us -- just us.

Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2017-04-13 13:33:41 UTC
Jev North wrote:


Nauplius wrote:
.. but of the Red and the Black, that is, of the Sani Sabik and Sansha's Nation..

Old man Kuvakei has as much claim on the element of Void as your mother does. That one properly belongs to us -- just us.


The Void is her own, and we are but mariners plying our trade amongst her tides and currents.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#12 - 2017-04-13 13:50:17 UTC
Elmund Egivand wrote:
The Void is her own, and we are but mariners plying our trade amongst her tides and currents.


Depends on what you see Void as being. Not everybody's traditional element system is set up the same....
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2017-04-13 15:00:01 UTC
Aria Jenneth wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
The Void is her own, and we are but mariners plying our trade amongst her tides and currents.


Depends on what you see Void as being. Not everybody's traditional element system is set up the same....


Well, for my Clan, the Void is a place with its own spirit. Like the Regolith. Or the Mountains or Plains or Steppes.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#14 - 2017-04-13 15:42:06 UTC
Elmund Egivand wrote:
Aria Jenneth wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
The Void is her own, and we are but mariners plying our trade amongst her tides and currents.


Depends on what you see Void as being. Not everybody's traditional element system is set up the same....


Well, for my Clan, the Void is a place with its own spirit. Like the Regolith. Or the Mountains or Plains or Steppes.


In ours, it's an element, like earth or water, associated with spirit, energy, creativity ... it's considered the "highest" element. It's also the hardest to describe properly. There's some of it in everything, though.
Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#15 - 2017-04-13 16:00:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Persephone Alleile
As a follower of the Ida I find a lot of significance in dreams, they can provide a window into the workings of the unconscious mind which can be invaluable on the path of self-discovery.

There's definitely some interesting symbolism at work here. The red lights and warmth evoke a primal atmosphere reminiscent of the womb. You are in your captain's quarters, a place of sanctuary for us capsuleers and you mention that you felt safe there. Yet you are isolated. You have no ship, your contacts are all dead and the planets are on fire. There are no connections to the outside, this hints that you are deep within your own psychological framework exploring some aspect of your own psyche.

Next you come to a beach on great sea. Large bodies of water in dreams often represent one's emotions. You experience this sea as "writhing and red." This to me seems to suggest that there are some strong emotional currents at work. You also mention a trail of red leading into the water, like something was dragged in there and submerged, maybe a repressed memory or some buried thought that is agitating the waters? You don't seem disturbed by this though, in fact you seem to embrace it, become aroused by it.

You step into the water and then you experience an infinite void above you. Voids can represent the unknown, what this means for you largely depends on how you react to it. You are not afraid, which suggests that you are not adverse to taking risks. The power you feel from the void is your own personal potential, waiting for you beyond. You embrace it and it embraces you.

I hope this amateur dream analysis makes some sense.

Aria Jenneth wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
Aria Jenneth wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
The Void is her own, and we are but mariners plying our trade amongst her tides and currents.


Depends on what you see Void as being. Not everybody's traditional element system is set up the same....


Well, for my Clan, the Void is a place with its own spirit. Like the Regolith. Or the Mountains or Plains or Steppes.


In ours, it's an element, like earth or water, associated with spirit, energy, creativity ... it's considered the "highest" element. It's also the hardest to describe properly. There's some of it in everything, though.



Where I come from the void was traditionally seen as the womb from which all creation is born. The great and fertile mother for whose affection many suitors vie (the potent stars that give us light and make life possible).
Doctor Valate
Delve Medical Services
#16 - 2017-04-13 16:35:36 UTC
Jev North wrote:

Doctor Valate wrote:

Out of academic interest though, have you ever dreamed about the following:
[...]
Being an asteroid that impacts upon an inhabited planet at several km/sec.
[...]

It's funny you should mention that. Not impacting so much as tumbling silently through the void, mathematically pre-destined to plunge into a thin, fragile biosphere somewhere down the line.


Fascinating. Were you able to identify the target of your celestial rampage ? Or was it just a vague feeling of ruining someone's day a long way in the future ?

Doctor Valerie Valate. Not to be confused with the other Valerie Valate.
Che Biko
Alexylva Paradox
#17 - 2017-04-13 16:45:50 UTC
I had a lucid dream, some years ago. I based a short story on it and published it: Nightmares

Coordination Channel for Consolidated Space Rescue Cooperation

Open Letter to the Aidonis Foundation Directorate
Casserina Leshrac
Sanguine Illuminations
#18 - 2017-04-13 18:45:44 UTC
Nauplius wrote:
Ms. Ju'wien has had a premonition of the Blood Age, but in her mind the Blood Age is not a union of the Red and Gold, that is, of the Sani Sabik and the Amarr, but of the Red and the Black, that is, of the Sani Sabik and Sansha's Nation. The black sky in her dream represents the Sansha Hive mind, which is a of course not only a place of torment for those assimilated into it but also a source of power to which Ms. Ju'wien is attracted and which is in turn attracted to her.

The beginning of the Blood Age will of course follow the apocalypse of the current Golden Age; hence in Ms. Ju'wien's dream is the destruction by fire of planets and the death of everyone on her contact list. She is also correct that in the Blood Age the very seas will be of blood and a pleasure to the Chosen. She is wrong, of course, that Sansha's Nation has any role to play in the Blood Age, and I pray that she turns from the Black toward the Gold.


I'm of the inclination that Meb's dreams subjects itself to its own intrepretation.

It could mean the following. However given over to the nature of Blood and it's ties to awaken passion I suspect it would be something far more primal.

Needless to say I have had similar dreams with similar outcomes. The call of Blood is more than some foolish notion of a "want". But a drive and thirst that should be sated.

We stand at the Abyss, drawing the Patterns of Fate - Casserina Leshrac, Savant, Sani Sabik.
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#19 - 2017-04-14 01:55:29 UTC
Obviously it's "that time of the month". No further speculation required.

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
Kazuma Ry
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#20 - 2017-04-14 04:34:50 UTC
Madam Ju'wien,

It would be best that you seek out a Priest and Therapist to talk too. A dream of this nature might mean both your mind and soul need help that only those 2 can provide.

~ Kazuma Ry
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