Lauren's Lair: Here be dragons...

[Sephirah]

Back to my "dream" "past life" whatever, its in a collection of round houses. Strange we have a hill fort above where I was born and when they upgraded a junction the other side of the river from my flat they found round houses. Looks like this area was well populated back then, maybe that is why there is a Roman castle tump opposite where I went to junior school?

That's really cool, Davina. I can see where your interest in Time Team and archaeology comes from. Maybe there is something to it. And you are living something else from a long time ago. You can't really go anywhere in the UK without at least a Roman villa being a few metres below your feet. That's kind of the thing. Does the egg lead to the chicken or does the chicken lead to the egg?

Is there anything else about these dreams that is consistent? Other than yourself?

[Sephirah]

So... uh... I know this likely won't appeal to many people here. There are a lot less gamer nerds than there used to be, for some reason. But... this gives me huge goosebumps. It's slightly spoilery (the version with the dialogue is way more spoilery, but way more impactful... it always, ALWAYS makes me cry in a good way) If you haven't played but have any desire to play this then don't watch. But I think this is one of the best pieces of music ever made for a videogame and just in general... it always makes me feel a certain kind of way...

[davina61]

Yes treating someone with a poultice, a young person and her mother. From my gran parents when I had a sore that refused to heal a leaf from a mallow plant worked!

[Sephirah]

Yes treating someone with a poultice, a young person and her mother. From my gran parents when I had a sore that refused to heal a leaf from a mallow plant worked!

That's actually really cool. A lot of the natural healing has been lost, Davina you are an actual druid! Don't write it off, sweetie. I've seen enough to believe in reincarnation, you never really know. As Shakespeare said:

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

[Mrs. Oliphant]

When I was a young lass of grade school age, I had a recurring dream of being shot through the head on a battlefield. The dream was not a nightmare, merely a moment of darkness before floating above myself and noticing the helmet beside my body with a bullet hole between two silver bars. As I grew older, I interpreted the dream to intimate that I was a captain during the Korean War. Since I was born in October of 1951, I always thought of that dream whenever the topic or reincarnation came up. Who knows? As an aside, my father was determined to re-enlist shortly after the Korean War began but my mother had just learned she was pregnant with me and threatened to divorce my dad if he re-enlisted. Perhaps some anonymous captain dying on a forgotten battlefield saved my dad's life. Okay, that last was a bit of a reach.

[Sephirah]

Maybe, Anni. I think it's entirely possible. I watched this video a little while ago and... one of my favourite mivues is a movie called "Dragonfly" Starring Kevin Costner. Deals with this subject, although it is quite Hollywood.

Anyway... have a look at this.
This guy is mostly a sceptic and debunker of paranormal stuff:

[tgirlamg]

When I was a young lass of grade school age, I had a recurring dream of being shot through the head on a battlefield. The dream was not a nightmare, merely a moment of darkness before floating above myself and noticing the helmet beside my body with a bullet hole between two silver bars. As I grew older, I interpreted the dream to intimate that I was a captain during the Korean War. Since I was born in October of 1951, I always thought of that dream whenever the topic or reincarnation came up. Who knows? As an aside, my father was determined to re-enlist shortly after the Korean War began but my mother had just learned she was pregnant with me and threatened to divorce my dad if he re-enlisted. Perhaps some anonymous captain dying on a forgotten battlefield saved my dad's life. Okay, that last was a bit of a reach.

Annika...

I also had a re-occurring dream from about age 6 to around 13 about being killed in war... always the same short dream on a fairly regular basis of a painful hit to my chest in a muddy place at night... I used to be aware of the dream sometime when it started but, couldn't stop the inevitable conclusion... sometimes I would cry out from the painful end to it and my parents would hear me...

Onward,

A💕

[Mrs. Oliphant]

sometimes I would cry out from the painful end to it and my parents would hear me...

Oh, Ashley, what a traumatic dream to endure repeatedly. Assuming our dreams are somehow connected to past lives, I am fortunate to have passed so painlessly. And if they're not connected, I have difficulty determining the source(s) of the imagery. We didn't own a TV until I was five and my mother hated war movies (she loved westerns, though, so I suppose I could have transposed images). I was probably eight or nine the last time I remember having the dream. 

[Lori Dee]

I was never a huge fan of fantasy fiction (I'm a sci-fi geek). I was introduced to playing Dungeons & Dragons, and enjoyed that. We would have weekend marathons, playing non-stop from Friday night into early Sunday morning. I found and bought the complete collection of Tolkien, but I had a very hard time getting into it. Then I discovered Dragon World.

Dragonworld (August 3, 2011)
by Byron Preiss (Author), Michael Reaves (Author), Joseph Zucker (Illustrator)

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it opened my mind to fantasy fiction. I still find Tolkien hard to read, but I enjoy the movies.

[Mrs. Oliphant]

I still find Tolkien hard to read,

As do I, Lori. But I am willing to give the trilogy another chance. The movies were entertaining and no doubt deterred me from reading past 'The Hobbit'. So, as Janis Joplin might say, 'I must make amends.'

[davina61]

A lot of that was based around where I live as he was a teacher at Malvern collage.

[Sephirah]

Annika...

I also had a re-occurring dream from about age 6 to around 13 about being killed in war... always the same short dream on a fairly regular basis of a painful hit to my chest in a muddy place at night... I used to be aware of the dream sometime when it started but, couldn't stop the inevitable conclusion... sometimes I would cry out from the painful end to it and my parents would hear me...

Onward,

A💕

That is horrible. For both of you. I have never had a dream about being fatally shot and wow I never want to. That must be so jarring. I have been shot, a long time ago in the military. Although it was only a graze and decidedly non-life threatening... and an accident. I can't even begin to imagine what that must feel like.

I was never a huge fan of fantasy fiction (I'm a sci-fi geek). I was introduced to playing Dungeons & Dragons, and enjoyed that. We would have weekend marathons, playing non-stop from Friday night into early Sunday morning. I found and bought the complete collection of Tolkien, but I had a very hard time getting into it. Then I discovered Dragon World.

Dragonworld (August 3, 2011)
by Byron Preiss (Author), Michael Reaves (Author), Joseph Zucker (Illustrator)

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it opened my mind to fantasy fiction. I still find Tolkien hard to read, but I enjoy the movies.

Yeah I totally get this, Lori. Tolkien is very hard to get into if you read the Lord of the Rings books. The first, I would say forty percent of the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring, is extremely slow and meandering. And contains a lot of stuff they just cut out of the movie entirely. You start to wonder if there's even a point to it. Stuff that really is only worldbuilding and lore related. I can see why they cut it out of the movie. It does gather pace... but that doesn't do much to help someone who isn't really interested after the first two hundred or so pages, lol.

The thing I'm probably most sad about is that they also cut most of the poetry and songs out of the movies, too. Again I can see why. If they kept everything in, each movie would be double the length of the extended editions and there probably wouldn't have been enough money in the world to shoot them.

I will have to look into Dragonworld. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the DragonLance series of novels. They were set in the Forgotten Realms world, which is what a lot of DnD is set in. It was kind of like a campaign in book form.

I don't know what it is but there are very few sci-fi works I can get into. One notable exception is the "Culture" novels by Iain M. Banks. But I think that's only because in that universe, people can (and do) change their gender and sex at will. And one story is about this guy, who became a girl to have a baby, then changed back again. I read this before I came out and it utterly fascinated me.

Yes treating someone with a poultice, a young person and her mother. From my gran parents when I had a sore that refused to heal a leaf from a mallow plant worked!

There is so much knowledge lost to the world about natural things that worked for thousands of years. And only very few people alive who still know about them, all over the world.

...

In boring Lauren real life news... it's been obnoxiously, unbearably hot here in my little corner of the UK. And is set to hit 29 Celsius (84 Fahrenheit) this weekend. I'm dreading it. My house, like very many houses in the North of the UK, is full to bursting with insulation because traditionally it's been rather a lot colder and our government would rather have people living in house sized arctic sleeping bags than pay them to put the heating on. So my house is like an actual oven most days and it's excruciating. Did I mention I hate Summer?

Oh, and I got to travel on one of the fancy new all-electric buses that have been rolled out where I live. They're very cool! Very quiet, and very accommodating as far as disabled access goes. Although I don't have the faintest idea how you'd power a double-decker on batteries. They must have veritable armies of Duracell Bunnies on treadmills underneath them.

Travel for me, even just locally, is normally quite complicated and awkward. But this was nice.

[Lilis]

Thunder • Imagine Dragons

[Sephirah]

I have listened to that three times now. Thank you so much, Lilis. The arrangement gives me goosebumps.

Girl you are special. You just get people. Thank you. <3

This song makes me think of you.



You are absolutely beautiful. The world is a better place because you are in it, @Lilis. <3

[Lilis]

This song makes me think of you.

You are absolutely beautiful. The world is a better place because you are in it, Lilis. <3

Love it! 💗

Added to my playlist, thank you, Lauren.

You're beautiful too... 💋


~ Lilis 🫂

[Sephirah]

Love it! 💗

Added to my playlist, thank you, Lauren.

You're beautiful too... 💋


~ Lilis 🫂

Love you, honey. <3 I wish for the very best for you and your potential bae. You make me better than I am, Lilis. You deserve to be happy. <3

[Lilis]

Love you, honey.

Love you too... 💋

[Sephirah]

That is an epic image. I wholeheartedly approve!