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[merlinastrice]

Out of morbid curiosity: did anyone else's moment include a castle or dragon of sorts?

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[darkforcerising]

No castle. What does your memory castle look like?

[merlinastrice]

I've been trying to find it all over google and can't bloody find it! I'm not an artist either.

[darkforcerising]

Any other clues in your memory that might help you find it?

[merlinastrice]

Not really. It was an open field? There was a knight? I'm not sure, there was a pile of armor and blond hair, I think, he was at a distance.

[darkforcerising]

Hey, that is a clue. You know at least it's European.

[merlinastrice]

True, I suppose. Context clues of that sort would tell us that it's definitely not up in Scotland - it was green but not the kind of green like it is over there.

[darkforcerising]

I've never been to Scotland. Internet says that checks out. I didn't know it was that green.

So not Scotland. Not a lot but it's something, right?

I'm still in the same room in my memory and there are no windows.

[merlinastrice]

You should see Ireland. We went there on holiday once.

[darkforcerising]

Is it very green?

[merlinastrice]

Green as far as the eye could see. When it's not raining.

[darkforcerising]

That is the opposite of Arizona. Tan for as far as the eye can see, and no rain.

[merlinastrice]

I hope you can imagine my shocked face.

[darkforcerising]

I have a pretty good imagination.

Sorry this is stressing you out.

[ashenscipher]

You saw a castle?

[merlinastrice]

And a dragon

[ashenscipher]

But dragons aren't even real!

[merlinastrice]

Exactly! You see how maddening this is?!

[ashenscipher]

How can that be a past life memory is dragons are fiction?

[merlinastrice]

That's what I'm saying. Dragons are fiction. There's no such thing.

[ashenscipher]

So logic says this is not a memory of a past life.

[merlinastrice]

Oddly, it just doesn't feel like a past life of any sort.

[ashenscipher]

I agree! There is something about the memory that feels more present. Like another life. Not a past life.

[merlinastrice]

Exactly! Which is mad because we're living THIS life.

[ashenscipher]

So are we living two lives at once?

I wish now that I'd taken more physics at Uni.

[merlinastrice]

I never lettered in physics. It can't be that we're living two lives.

[ashenscipher]

Would you rather believe it is a past life?

[thehellisbucky]

Wait. A dragon? Like a komodo dragon?

[merlinastrice]

More like...a giant gold colored one that has wings and claws and breathed fire.

[thehellisbucky]

Wow, that's different. What was the context?

[merlinastrice]

You're telling me.

It was like...I was talking to it and it understood me and I understood it. Like there was some...strange power I had.

[thehellisbucky]

That's both badass and terrifying. Have you seen this dragon outside of your memories?

[merlinastrice]

Never! There's cartoon dragons I've seen but nothing like this!

[temptationaccomplished]

No, but mine did feature dinosaurs...of a sort.

Perhaps if you can describe the castle, we might be able to locate it. Any notable geographical or architectural features?

[merlinastrice]

Dinosaurs?

I've tried googling it and there's just so many bloody castles everywhere.

[temptationaccomplished]

Statues of dinosaurs, from what I can gather. And not very good ones at all. I'm not entirely positive, but considering my conversation partner was also British, it may be located somewhere there. A lovely librarian suggested the Crystal Palace Park after a search.

Goodness, yes, there's far too many to count. Anything of note you can describe? Turrets? Moats? I can't say castles or architecture are in any way something of a specialty, but I do specialize in art. Perhaps with some description, I could roughly narrow your search in terms of time-period or region. Or I might consult a colleague.

I'm not sure what it means, however, if you're having visions of a fantasy setting. An actor, perhaps?

[merlinastrice]

No moats that I could see. There may have been a turret. My attention in this memory seems to have been on the great bloody dragon before me. I certainly wasn't acting.

[missingache]

Mine was in a city where some of the buildings were sideways.

Dragons would have been cooler.

[merlinastrice]

Sideways buildings?

[missingache]

Yeah. The buildings I was standing in front of were sideways, some upside down.

[merlinastrice]

Sideways?!

[missingache]

It was weird. I can't describe it more than that.

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[howkickassiam]

Dude, I was in outer space wearing biomechanical body armor.

[merlinastrice]

Outer space. With biomechanical body armor?

[howkickassiam]

I know it sounds crazy, but all of this is pretty crazy, you have to admit

[merlinastrice]

Beyond crazy! But how could it be crazy if so many of us experience it?