DREAMS.

[kyeugh]

I returned to North Carolina to see my friends; obviously there was a lot of hugging and "I missed you." At some point I went for a swim with my friend Parker (?) and we got to an island which was somehow the same place we started swimming from, even though we had been swimming straight the entire time.

I have weird dreams. They're not typically exciting, haha.

 

[Murkrow]

You know how some TV show episodes starts off with the characters doing something exciting and then after the theme tune it returns to the recent past and the next 80+% of the episode is showing how they came to be in the situation they were in at the beginning?

My dreams do that sometimes, except since they're dreams I either wake up before they come full circle or much more likely, it forgets it's supposed to lead somewhere and just does its own thing.

 

[Worst Username Ever]

I love it when dream me makes "logical" decisions.

We don't have any money? Better pretend I'm blind.
Someone else suggests we just eat at a restaurant and run away without paying when nobody's looking
Okay, but I better run away a bit after everyone else, because if I'm supposed to be blind, I wouldn't have noticed everyone ran away.

Oh yeah, dream logic, I love that.

Once (I think I posted about it earlier in the thread) I dreamt that I saw this sweater I wanted to win, but looking at the design I didn't really want it after all... But I still kind of wanted it, and to win it you had to win this game where you defeated 4 bosses. My solution? Only defeat 2 of them!

Anyway, a while ago I had a dream where I had bought chocolate pudding but had nowhere to store it... and later I forgot it in a hot car for a few hours. When I remembered it and got back to it, it had melted, and turned into some thin, brown/white-ish liquid. D:

 

[Murkrow]

Okay I've been having so many dreams recently it's ridiculous.

I love it when dream me makes "logical" decisions.

We don't have any money? Better pretend I'm blind.
Someone else suggests we just eat at a restaurant and run away without paying when nobody's looking
Okay, but I better run away a bit after everyone else, because if I'm supposed to be blind, I wouldn't have noticed everyone ran away.

So basically in this dream I was the child of a family who lived in Rapture from Bioshock. It was parent's evening at my school so we went there but there was nobody there, just a button which be pressed and then were teleported to the inside of a really small room. We could see out of the room but nobody was reacting to us so we thought it must be one-way glass. (it later turned out that from the outside it looked like a pillar with a bunch of newspapers stuck to it)
I then realised that we were on the surface (if you haven't played Bioshock, Rapture is underwater) and I got really excited. There was a door as well, with a sign on it saying this place was for observation and research on the surface, only open the door in emergencies. Well we opened the door anyway to have a look around but we accidentally left the door open and people were walking in. The best way to reduce the damage would be to close the door while there were people still inside. It's not like they could just open the door again like we did!
Then we realised that we didn't have any surface money so I did the whole pretend I was blind thing. The restaurant we went to gave us a bowl of fruit with a normal-looking strawberry or raspberry but I thought it looked weird.
Then we went somewhere where there was a roller coaster that had something to do with Krusty the Klown but I can't remember where he came into it. I did something while we were riding on it that caused the car to fall off of the tracks but lucky for us, roller coaster cars apparently float. We shouted towards the lifeguards that were nearby and they sailed towards us and hooked us to their boats. Then it turned out the boats were also part futuristic helicopter (the kind with four propellers at the bottom inside circles)
and they flew us out of the water.

EDIT:
Okay how is it even possible for a dream to have a plot twist I didn't see coming when I was the one having the dream in the first place? I mean it'd make sense if the story of the dream suddenly changed for no reason, but this plot twist actually made sense!

Okay so this one was basically an episode of the Modern Family. The old one (I can't remember their names) was asking the red haired one for legal advice and was showing him a website to back up his claims but he noticed that this website was using copyrighted images. Later on it turned out that there wasn't any legal trouble at all, they were just trying to trick the red haired guy into meeting with someone
I'm pretty sure more than that happened, but I can't remember.

You know how some TV show episodes starts off with the characters doing something exciting and then after the theme tune it returns to the recent past and the next 80+% of the episode is showing how they came to be in the situation they were in at the beginning?

My dreams do that sometimes, except since they're dreams I either wake up before they come full circle or much more likely, it forgets it's supposed to lead somewhere and just does its own thing.

The dream started off with Doctor Cox from Scrubs (which I haven't even watched in probably over two years) getting drunk with some girls but then he realises this must be a dream! He forced himself to wake up and it turns out he was sleepwalking in someone else's house and tied everyone up and they were really scared of what he was going to do. There was also someone driving around on a mobility scooter that was really more like a giant vacuum cleaner but we didn't get to know much about that before it changed to be back in time to show us how he got into this mess.

Back in time, me and my family were taking a walk. Not much happened. We had to walk around a really big hole (a piece of ground were there wasn't any gravel) so we had to tiptoe and make sure the dog didn't fall in.



I had like, three other dreams this week the latest of which made me decide to actually describe them in this thread but since I didn't post what tropes they used in this thread before, I can't remember them :(
I'm pretty sure my latest one involved me finding plot holes in the dream's story though.

 

[sv_01]

I had a dream where there were some agents that were a bit similar to the creepy dudes from the Rings of Akhaten, but maybe thinner and less like cyborgs stuck in the industrial revolution. People called them "Black Jacks". There was one guy who sometimes got captured by one of them. He was then interrogated by another one in front of their boss, who looked like a metal ape. The man always screamed that there's a metal ape. That summoned the escort Jack, but the boss and the interrogator Jack left in the meanwhile. The escort Jack didn't know what his boss looked like, and he was always like "what are you talking about, there's no metal ape in here". So he slowly became somewhat scared of his mark and was creeped out when he had to take him to the interrogation.

 

[Babelbob_Ninjafish]

I have been having weird dreams instead of no dreams.
So it was Christmas eve. Downstairs saw a spider monster like creature. I rushed up the stairs and went to my room. i looked out my door and saw zombies. One time some wood fell from my bed. dream me used it to kill the zombies. Then i saw this tarot card creature, killed it because i thought it was a zombie. then i saw my family as zombies, then weird pictures and then, i wake up.

 

[Dar]

The other night I dreamed my best friend was being raped. I have no idea why.

 

[Babelbob_Ninjafish]

When i was very young i had this dream where i as at the back of a Walmart in a swamp, there where people rolling around in hamster balls. i was cell from portal on top of a garbage pile and suddenly a black cat appeared and told me it was a dream. i then wished i was awake and i woke up.
Never had a dream with that cat again...

 

[Murkrow]

I had a dream that I was Edward Snowden and I was living in Yorkshire for some reason and to stop the police from finding me I went to Ritsu from K-ON!'s house (who in the dream was my best friend and cousin) to park my car, and parking my car there involved switching our Tumblr avatars with each other.


EDIT: Does anyone else's brain start sort of dreaming before they fall asleep? I don't mean hallucinating or anything, I mean it starts to conflate things in your mind that aren't even related which I guess is sort of what happens when you dream.

Like the other day I was trying to remember Pokémon names that are palindromes. "Eevee, Ho-oh, Girafirig..." I knew there was at least one more so I was laying there gong
"Palindromes... spelled the same backwards... symmetric... complex conjugate... symmetric in the real axis... like the mandelbrot set... looks a bit like Alomomola..."

"...!!!"

 

[Karousever]

Like the other day I was trying to remember Pokémon names that are anagrams. "Eevee, Ho-oh, Girafirig..." I knew there was at least one more so I was laying there gong
"Anagrams... spelled the same backwards... symmetric... complex conjugate... symmetric in the real axis... like the mandelbrot set... looks a bit like Alomomola..."

"...!!!"

You are confusing anagrams with palindromes. Anagrams are words that are formed from mixing around the letters of a word or phrase to make another. Such as the popular anagram from Harry Potter, "Tom Marvolo Riddle - I Am Lord Voldemort"

Whereas a palindrome is exactly what you thought an anagram was :P Hope I didn't come off as...snarky or anything, just trying to help! :)

 

[Murkrow]

You are confusing anagrams with palindromes. Anagrams are words that are formed from mixing around the letters of a word or phrase to make another. Such as the popular anagram from Harry Potter, "Tom Marvolo Riddle - I Am Lord Voldemort"

Whereas a palindrome is exactly what you thought an anagram was :P Hope I didn't come off as...snarky or anything, just trying to help! :)

Sorry, I knew that. I was just tired since I'd just got up :P
(best time to recall dreams, after all)

 

[Hiikaru]

EDIT: Does anyone else's brain start sort of dreaming before they fall asleep? I don't mean hallucinating or anything, I mean it starts to conflate things in your mind that aren't even related which I guess is sort of what happens when you dream.

Like the other day I was trying to remember Pokémon names that are palindromes. "Eevee, Ho-oh, Girafirig..." I knew there was at least one more so I was laying there gong
"Palindromes... spelled the same backwards... symmetric... complex conjugate... symmetric in the real axis... like the mandelbrot set... looks a bit like Alomomola..."

"...!!!"

That's normal! I know about two different factors for this. One is that when your brain isn't receiving much external stimulation (or: your brain is bored), your brain activity drops by like 5% total and then brain activity in areas responsible for hypothetical situations, empathy, and memory goes way up. This can happen during an activity like falling asleep. So that causes you to do things like form connections between random things! I do that same kind of thing while waiting for someone, in the shower, or trying to sleep.

(also! When your brain is way too bored, you actually will hallucinate. There's a thing called the "ganzfeld effect" where you induce this by blocking out your senses.)

Here's a source that talks about boredom and brain activity: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Schuessler-t.html?_r=2&

Also a really good video on boredom by Vsauce: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwd25JV-jnU (it talks about the brain activity thing and the ganzfeld effect)

And, as for "start sort of dreaming before they fall asleep" when you don't get enough sleep, your brain starts REM sleep (dreaming sleep) really quickly and you can have dream-like experiences while partly awake. I'm pretty sure I read about this in Lucid Dreaming for Beginners (link!). I own the book but I I have no idea where it is, so I can't check to see if it has more details on that. You might notice this happening when sleep-deprived, though. And severe sleep deprivation also causes hallucinations (which can happen after as little as three days without sleep according to asapSCIENCE).

 

[Byrus]

I've been keeping a dream diary recently and turning some of the more cool and horrifying ones into short stories. Just gonna copy and paste this vaguely interesting one I had recently

Spoiler: fucking parasites man

I was at a place that looked somewhat like an archaeological dig site. There were also a lot of half-ruined buildings around, while others looked like they were in the process of being built. There was one building that looked like an old-fashioned villa with the front half of it completely missing, leaving the interior exposed. There was a large pool in front of it, and while the water in it was crystal clear, the tiles and area around it were all broken and dirty.

There were people there that had gone swimming in the water and were infected by unusual parasites. Some archaeologists were trying to explain it to me. They showed me a vision which explained that these organisms used to infect trilobites, but when the trilobites went extinct, they began to move onto other animals. They gradually drained their host of resources over a long period of time, and moved onto the next one when the animal finally died. Eventually, however, they became dormant, existing harmlessly in the body of their host as microscopic specks. They have remained dormant for millions of years, managing to remain alive inside the bones of long dead animals.

The archaeologists explained that the parasite had finally become active again due to the bones being unearthed. One of them brought me into a room with an x-ray, with the scan showing the parasite inside a person. The parasite initially appeared on the scan as a tiny squirming speck, but it was starting to split off into multiple specks, which were gradually growing bigger. As doctors began to rush in, I saw the parasites begin to transform into something which resembled a tiny lizard with stick-thin limbs. They writhed around horribly inside the person’s chest and stomach, their legs and tail stretching like elastic.

The doctors eventually rushed the patient outside for an “emergency procedure”, taking them to the front of the pool. They shoved a tube down the person’s throat with what looked like a funnel on the end, and the person began gagging. Parasites began to pour out of the tube in a flood. The doctors brought a human corpse over and shoved the other end of the tube into its mouth, allowing the parasites to crawl into it. I remember getting agitated and angrily asking what good that would do, before running away towards the dig site. I wanted to find the right cure.

I'm paraphrasing some of what happened because dream logic muddled a lot of the details of how the parasite infected the host. Probably not scientifically accurate, but asking that kind of thing from a dream is a little much.

I seem to have a lot of dreams/nightmares about parasites and diseases. Could this be related to any of the movies and books I read and watch? ....nah. (seriously though, the body horror genre is the best kind of horror)

 

[Kung Fu Ferret]

Back in 2008-2009, I had a dream of a future Pokemon generation, and there was this Dark/Ground Pokemon with an uncanny resemblance to Sandile. No joke.

 

[waffledoctor87]

I once had a dream where I beat Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie in a game of Trivial Pursuit. I was my OC King Dark Blaze

Spoiler: description of OC

Basically imagine Queen Chrysalis with orange instead of teal. (if it matters, he's married to her also) The holes in his legs and horn are also filled with magma and he generally looks like he was made of cooled lava... which he was

and I was partnered with Queen Chrysalis. In another dream, my actual family and I went on vacation... but Sweetie Belle was there. I distinctly remember her last words before I woke up...

Am I going to get my cutie mark in vacationing?

 

[Scootaloo]

I had a dream where a few people from the marching band I'm in was performing at a humongous elementary school somewhere (I have no idea what the school was) and it was me and 5 other flutes and some colorguards, along with people in the other sections. I was the MC of the event for some reason and the whole performance was being broadcasted on television. After one of the songs, Misha Collins appears out of nowhere and started talking to my friend and I. (I suppose I dreamt Misha was there because my friend has been talking about and watching Supernatural constantly.) That's all I can remember; it was a pretty cool dream.

 

[Vholvek]

This happened a little while ago (like a month ago, on Christmas Eve!) but it's really long, so let me sum it up; Where do I start? I was with my youth group from Church, and then we went on some field trip, and we stayed in a hotel. Our hotel set on fire, and my grandma started taking pictures of it with my DSi... And all of the firefighters were gay and started spraying each other with hoses with no clothes on. Then, I became naked, as for some reason I do in all of my dreams. So, I ran 25 miles naked to my house, but halfway there, I saw an abandon plaza of closed stores. There was a floating piece of caution tape, held on by fishing line. I was confused, so I followed it, and at the end there were two black guys with handguns. I tried to run, and act I like I saw nothing, but they saw me and chased me, all the way up to some steel pipe. Apparently, this is where they were chasing me to. I scrambled up the pipe, and at the top, there was a river with a fork about fifteen feet away. I jumped in and started swimming, and turned right. I ended up at an African American concentration camp. There was like one white kid, and they were all playing basketball. He saw my DSi, which I suddenly had in my hand, and he told me, "if you wanna keep that, go to the fight club." I had no idea what the fight club was, and I kept asking him, but he just acted like I wasn't there. That had absolutely no effect on the story. Anyways, I managed to escape by shaping a stick into the key and leaving. I ran home, and saw my family was dead. I weeped, and then I grabbed a bag. I got three DSis (I have no idea why) and my knife, some money, and clothes. I opened the door, and some white guy with a huge beard and Mr. T was there. I instantly knew they were re-kidnapping me, and I asked, "Why are you doing this to me?" And the white guy said, "Because I can." I woke up (why was I sleeping?), and I saw I was in a tent with Qvalador and the white guy. I was tempted to stab him, but instead, I asked, "Did I fall asleep by myself, or did you knock me out?" The white guy told me he knocked me out. I was really angry, but I unzipped the tent, and he let me. Outside, I saw we were on a wooden raft, on that same river. Mr. T turned right, and the white guy got enraged. Mr. T asked what was wrong, and the white guy yelled, "This is the way to the military base, you black fool!" And he ripped up the floorboards and slit Mr.T's throat. He attempted to make a run for it when we hit the shore, but he got sniped. Me and Qvalador came out of the raft with our hands up. We laid on our faces, then a guy with the biggest friggin gun you could imagine. He asked us what our status was, and I said two confirmed survivors (me and Qvalador), and two confirmed kills (bearded white guy and Mr. T). He nodded and helped us up. He called for "Sabrina," and a really hot chick covered in ammo and guns walked up and told us about recent terrorist kidnapping and hostage scenarios. I told her me and Qvalador were part of these, and all she said was, "Aren't you special? Shut up, and let's get to buisness!" I told her, if she provided weapons, ammo, transportation, and mercenaries, we would take 'em out for her. She agreed, and we went up a mountain in a jeep. Qvalador sniped some guy in a turban that was at a motel. THE END. Is any of this symbolism?

 

[sv_01]

So in my dream, I was reading an old-looking book about a girl named Susan who lives in Tokyo and lost one of her pet vultures. Then I visitd my friend (not from real life) who was playing a video game. First it was a mouse maze with the character being a computer mouse and dragging the cable behind it. Then it turned into a game about a girl going through a cold place and avoiding snow monsters. And then I was that girl. Sometimes they got me. At one point, I thought I was at the end, but then a girl creature made of darkness appeared and grabbed me, and I guess that was the bad ending because I couldn't run from her anymore. I couldn't even use the portals. But after some time, I realised that I kind of liked the bit where I got caught by the enemies. I think I started teleporting to other more or less snowy lands at some point. Once it was slightly warmer and there was a white sun with a face. And later, I got rolled up into a snowball. When I woke up, part of my blanket was off.

 

[Murkrow]

A lot happened in the dream I had last night. I can't remember all of it and I can't remember what it was about before my brain retconned it all at the end.


Basically things were (relatively) normal until the end when it turned out I was watching a youtube review for Octodad.
At first I was in a shop that you needed to pay to get into in the first place, and the entry fee was really really expensive, and then a load of fog appeared and when I walked through it I was suddenly in a playground. (this part was probably based on the episode of Pokémon I watched yesterday when Anthea and Concordia walked took N through some fog and were suddenly somewhere else) The playground was all dark and gloomy, kind of like the one that's at the beginning of route 14 in X and Y. The path at the end of the playground lead down to a beach.

I messed around on the beach which was a bit gloomy and the sky was overcast, and I met someone who was playing a weird game of connect the dots in the sand by sliding around the place and seeing how many dots she could connect in one slide.

Anyway eventually we walked back up to the playground and then it started being a youtube review for Octodad. It turned out that I was Octodad the whole time and the person I met was Octodad's wife. Note that even though my brain decided this was the case all along, it didn't change the fact that I wasn't an octopus until now. The youtube reviewer said "this bonus level that appears if you mess around in free play long enough and walk through the fog that appears is for stupid people who don't grasp the game's subtleties enough to realise that Octodad actually isn't an octopus and it's just a coping mechanism. This level just shoves that in your face, though that said, it isn't a bad level."

I then remembered the previous levels of the game (that don't exist) of the same playground and beach but really bright and colourful and happy, and you're playing as an octopus. In the dark and gloomy playground, Octodad's wife started kissing someone else who either arrived on a parasail or flew away afterwards with one.

 

[Byrus]

I had a dream that I was David Hasselhoff, and I discovered a glue that allowed me to freeze and rewind time by rubbing it on my arm. Also, I was trying to revive my career but my cousin was jealous and wanted to kill me or something.

I don’t remember much more than that.