Dreams

[sajuukar]

Hmm, there was something in the i forums about game dreams and such that inspired me to start this thread... what's the coolest, funniest, or extreme dream in any way that you've had? I rememeber one of mine was quite... odd...

It all started in my school. From there I got on the airplane, and felt the accelerationg push me into my chair as it took off the runway, and we got to Mexico. There was a house there, and I asked where my cousins were. An old lady said that she split the house in two and that my cousins no longer lived there. I went outside to play with a little white dog the neighbors had, but then it got angry and started chasing me and barking. It got me and I woke up, except my leg didin't... it was asleep!

It's so wierd how dreams sometimes adapt to whatever is happening in the real world...

[SquidDNA]

Here's a recent one...

I was at home at an isolated farm, and my parents sent me out on an unusual errand at dusk. There had been an accident on the road somewhere, and it was my job to go there and wait until the police arrived. We already knew that the people involved were dead. I knew what I was looking for-- a long silvery-green pile of twisted metal with two dead people lying on the ground in the opposite lane. (Sounds more like a wrecked alien spacecraft to tell it now.) As I walked along the road surrounded by thick forest, it grew darker and darker, darker than I've ever known night to be. Soon I couldn't see anything-- I was completely blind, and I had wandered off the road and into the woods-- I could feel underbrush in every direction I reached. I was about to despair when a previously unknown traveling companion (a younger sibling? an elementary school friend? There was something *young* about him or her) Told me not to worry, that they could see something. I turned all around, looking, and I saw what looked like a tear or a rip in the darkness, and there was a soft, faint, white light illuminating the forest I could see in that direction. So I left the darkness and that segment of the dream was over.

[Walker]

If we aren't meant to now ask, "what happened next", then my arse is a cream puff.

[Tygre]

Once I had a dream involving Miss Kitty and jellybeans, but I won't get into that.

I don't often remember my dreams, but usually they are pretty random and occasionally funny. One of the best ones I remember that actually sort of had a plot is the following:

I'm in my middle school's small gymnasium. It has been transformed into a fancy restaraunt, with the tables and chairs and food and everything. There's a drink special which is some mixture of a dozen or so different liquids, didn't get the names because there was no language coming out of this, mainly lopsided emotions. So the lady on the next table buys one of these drinks, starts drinking the pink liquid out of the straw, gets a strange look on her face, and pukes through the straw. The drink and her puke mix, turn green, and splash onto her face dissolving it to the bone. (I got the emotions "funny, hungry, angst"). There's another guy at another table who buys the drink, drinks it even after the last occurence, and empties the bottle in one gulp. So, of course, he aquires the superhuman power to spew green acid out of his mouth. And, of course, he starts chasing me and some random middle-aged man. I think he was my dad, I'm not sure. We run away, and somehow we end up on the roofs of some warehouses and are jumping Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon style onto other buildings dodging the psycho's plumes of acid. (Emotion check: "envy, confusion, pride") Eventually he offs the old guy and the dream ends. Special effects were good for such a low-budget production.

Everything else is sex, food, or property damage, often a combination of several. (the preceding two were sex and food; food and property damage, respectively.)

[Murph]

I dreamt I had sex with a hot blond.

[Ben Tusi]

I once drempt that I was a cop, walking along the street, and all of a sudden, I heard shooting, so I call for backup on my radio, and seconds later, Police cars arrive and park around the area. I got together with a squad of cops, and pointed our guns at a store I heard shooting at. This guy came out, and he had a gun in his hand, and we all yelled at him to freese and put the gun down. He kicked me in the face, but we arrested him. We raided the store, and there was a SWAT team there too, suddenly, and we found this other guy wandering around, like we didn't exist. One cop bashed him in the back of the head with a nightstick, but he didn't so much as flinch. Than I woke up.

Edit: Bling bling! (http://www.dreamloverinc.com/dictionary.htm) Dream interpretation website.

[reki]

does anyone else find other peoples dreams really boring? every time someone tries to tell me about the amazing dream they had last night, i completely switch off (unless its about me, of course).

[YOU GO BOOM!!]

I was standing on a couch while the flying monkeys from the Wizzard Of Oz were flying around me chanting something about Oreos.

:monkey:

[sajuukar]

does anyone else find other peoples dreams really boring? every time someone tries to tell me about the amazing dream they had last night, i completely switch off (unless its about me, of course).
IMO, you have to pretend that you had that dream... dreams are usually cooler when you are actually going through them than when you tell them... some wierd chemical imbalence thing methinks...

[Ben Tusi]

It's because dreams were a reality to YOU, but it's just chitter-chatter to other people.

[SquidDNA]

Reki has a point. :)

I often find my own dreams to be disturbing or unsettling, or somehow important or significant, but it's really just because of the emotional impact of the dream itself. Since it's a message half whispered by a sleeping mind to begin with, conveying it to anyone else is almost impossible. The feelings you experience and the impressions you gather are what motivate you to share it, but nobody else can really understand why its sigfnificant to you.

Except.. except I wrote a story once based on a dream I had in the middle of class one day in 11th grade or so, and in the eight years since then I've met two, possibly three people who understood without any explanation what I was trying to convey in that story, which was the sense of the dream I had. Have you ever dreamt that you saw Evil, but it wasn't going to harm you? It was just there, brewing, waiting, looking at you and smiling politely?

[Nesher]

Have you ever dreamt that you saw Evil, but it wasn't going to harm you? It was just there, brewing, waiting, looking at you and smiling politely?

All the time actually...kinda alters your perceptions of the world...of course, it won't always not harm...but it'll always smile politely.

[oneredpanther]

Having someone tell you about their dreams in an excited manner is like someone trying to convey the IMMENSE side-splitting hilarity of an utterly FANTASTIC joke they heard last night. Except the joke was in Cantonese. Oh, and they forgot the punchline too.

FAIL.

[Daggerhawk]

My strangest dream EVER.
Okay,so all I remember is seeing Misty
with some strage fungus growing out of her nose,which soon takes over her entire body. She then turns into a giant 50 foot furry four legged fungus monster that begins chasing me. I turn into GOKU
and start jump from rooftop to rooftop in what seems to be
the worlds largest suburbs,then the ground caves in, And I fight
the thing as MARIO. After beating it by slicing off its tail with a lightsaber. a room opens up to the east. This is where things get WEIRD.
Its a platform maze,with a wood and pine tree theme to it.
"We wish you a marry christmas" is playing like someone doubled
the tape speed,and it keeps getting faster and screechier.
BTW,im Ash now,and I cant quite reach the last platform,
so a chuck pikachu up there,he shocks a switch
on the platform, and a bunch lights saying marry christmas
go on. I then wake up,wondering what the HELL that dream could have meant!

[Beast]

umm??
OK this wont make sense:
Im walking to school for some reason, yet I take the taxi. I relise this and suddenly am in mcdonalds. Hmmm. I order a big mac then all of a sudden this big black sphere plows in and i wake up.
Thats just about all i can remember. But i mean, huh? wtfluff does that mean?:err:

[SquidDNA]

Most of the reported dreams here involve some sort of violent conflict. Is that typical, or just what we're inclined to bring forth as an example for some reason?

[sajuukar]

Wow, squid, that's a really good insight into the surreal world of dreams (your previous comment)... I guess the only true way to completely let someone else know about your dreams is to have them experiece it... maybe by mind meld, telepathic link, or a neural net merger.

And about the conflicts, as far as I have heard, this is true due to humans' natural aggresive tendancies. Humans naturally dream this way maybe to train themselves in case one day, when you walk out of your cave, you at least have a slim chance of survival againsed a saber toothed tiger attack...???

But I still see many of these dreams as hilarious.

Beast: Means that you are hungry. In fact, I recommend taking a basketball to Mc Donalds and telling them to turn it into a burger for you :D j/k

[oneredpanther]

hmmm you odd people.

just for the record, i have never recalled deaming of:

1. Falling
2. Swimming
3. Fighting
4. Dying.
5. Fucking
6. Eating
7. Posting AYBABTU on the boards.

oh yeah, and in the nearly twenty years I have been alive, I have NEVER ONCE IN MY WHOLE LIFE had a nightmare. Not even one single time. My friends gawp in shock at this, as they assure me that "normal" people get them like at least every six weeks or something.

I must just be damn lucky.... maybe I'll pay for this unwitting repression of fear later in life or something. har.

freakish.

[Tygre]

Daggerhawk, I can analyze that dream for you right now:

Your subconscious mind is attempting to convey to you the message that you really need to stop watching so much goddamn saturday morning TV and do something else. :D

This is a gaming community. I think that even if violence in games does not affect a person so that they know it, it may affect their subconscious, which then treats it as unimportant and dumps the memory through a dream. And the violence is a lot easier to remember than anything else that may happen.

I think the statistic was that most Americans have about 4 REM dreams a night...it's a memory dump that sometimes isn't in a pattern that can be recognized as a dream.

[Noname_MiB]

I died in my dream and kinda stayed dead for like 15 minutes (i couldnt think i was more of a spectator who could hear, see, and notice the assage of time but thats pretty much it)

We were all out on l a field and we were just having fun and playing games on a LAN that was setup in the field (dont ask how, involved breaking several laws of physics). Then all of a sudden everyone starts rushing to the trucks (we all had trucks for some reason). I look up and i see this massive fireball hurling through the sky at us. This thing took up like 1/3 of the sky and its streak was very awesome (the meteor streaks in Armageddon were nothing compared to this). So i run to our truck and were like hulling ass (in the same reason thet the meteor is heading... for some strang reason). We're pretty much paralleling this thing, its off to our right. Then all of a sudden the sky turns firey red and moments later the meteor nails the ground with an earth-shattering kaboom (no pun intended) and an inferno began engulfing everything in its path, our crap truck barely out-running it. Eventually the inferno catches up with us and begins licking the back of the truck, slowly moving upward. All the while theres hundreds of little burning rocks being hurtled at us from the impact. The inferno all of a sudden picks up speed and over takes our truck in a millesecond. I feel my skin burning off and see my skeletal arms grabbing at the back of the truck and then pan out to see my skeleton flying in the air desperately grabbing onto the back of the truck until its incinerated. Cut to secret military base. Focuses on a map of the world showing the ice caps flashboiling and all the land masses being covered by water. General in the distance mumbles something to the extent of "God save those souls..." and then after i pan out and see the actual world as it now is, a water world.

[Tygre]

the meteor nails the ground with an earth-shattering kaboom (no pun intended) and an inferno began engulfing everything in its path, our crap truck barely out-running it

Well, that would tell me it was a dream then. I hate when they do that in movies...characters outrun or drive away from a nuclear explosion or a meteor strike. Yeah right. At least you actually died, it just took a hell of a lot longer than it should have.

Too bad none of my dreams have expensive special effects like that.

[Daggerhawk]

Tygre,while your at it...
Perhaps you could explain that dream I had about the Acid spewing roasted chicken? (I was actually afraid to open the fridge for a little while after that!)

[Tygre]

Most likely a repressed childhood trauma, perhaps brought on by one of your parents or relatives force feeding you roast chicken, upon which eating too much you regurgitated, possibly burning your hand. Vomiting suggests a cleansing of bad feelings or karma, therefore you should make up with any family members or chicken farmers you may have upset.

[SquidDNA]

Tygre, it may merely be that since we are gamers and thus "violence oriented" we are more likely to report dreams concering violence when really our dreams aren't any more or less violent than the norm. Excluding freaks like One Red. ;)

Seriously, I almost never dream about anything explicitly violent.. at worst there's just a sort of menace from something which is either repulsive and / or threatening.

[Koshy]

THe most interesting dream I ever had was.

I was in this huge room the cieling was easily30 feet high i remember looking toward an opining window (not normaly opening the were huge sheetsof metal sliding up and down from the glass windows wich were in the shape of ovals) I remember there being a waterfall type thing off to one corner of the room covered in plant growth. The entire room was a beutiful white.It appeared to be a living room area with the kitchen and tv in it they were at different ends of the room to each other the tv area had a dark but clean blue carpet in a quarter of a circle. I remember going into he water fall and seeing tha it was a Library in a pocket behind the waterfall. Then i walked back down to the the main floor area where I noticed something out of the window (this was also when I noticed that this room was located on the moon as the earth had sliped into veiw while i was in the library) The windows had almost finished opining. It was a shiny metalic object floating in space I was headed over to the window to take a closer look but I heared someone calling my name I turned around to see a woman siting next to a baby playpin holding a baby (when I sawhere I felt familier to her) I began to walk to the next room were they were and thats when i woke up.

[Noname_MiB]

Well, that would tell me it was a dream then. I hate when they do that in movies...characters outrun or drive away from a nuclear explosion or a meteor strike. Yeah right. At least you actually died, it just took a hell of a lot longer than it should have.
hehe yea i realize that no car could outrun a shockwave (or inferno-shockwave hybrid thingy)(how fast does a shockwave go btw?), but i was too tired to care ;)

[SquidDNA]

Shockwaves typically travel at the speed of sound through the medium. That's the technical definition of a shockwave-- it's a compressional wave, not a shiny wave of burning plasma or what have you. I dont think there's a technical term for the shiny burning plasma wave, or if it even really exists outside of science fiction. (Please inform me if otherwise.) This is to differentiate between the edge of the fireball-- which is hot debris from the explosion, and there's certainly no reason that the hot debris caused by an explosion can't go faster than sound, but if it's expanding gas, then it seems somehow unlikely in my vague intuition of physics.

[Daggerhawk]

Koshy,I simply have to bring up the possibility that might be a seqence from a future life of yours. Very interesting.

[Tygre]

I was watching Tech Of: A Bomb the other day. Squid's got it pretty well. I'm not sure if it's impossible for an expanding glowy plasma shockwave, but it seems unlikely. The only way you'd see it is if it's an explosion on some dirt or dusty ground...then you can see the dust being kicked up as the shockwave hits it. Or perhaps in a thicker medium, denser air or water or something would show a ripple effect. The shockwave for one of the explosions they described was traveling a bit over the speed of sound...around 800 mph. Fireballs are cool. Those ones on daisycutters and nukes are frickin' beautiful, but it makes me slightly angry that some of the coolest stuff in this world is only used to kill people.

Explosions in sci-fi movies in space have always been pretty unrealistic.

[SquidDNA]

If you look closely enough (with a high-speed camera pointed in the right place) you can see the ripples in the air from shockwaves. Also, I remember seeing a grainy video form an aircraft that had dropped a daisy-cutter near a bridge during the Gulf War. You could see the shockwaves ripple through the field of tall grass, in real time.

I was thinking about the A-bomb stuff when I was posting.. that footage of the houses in the tests never made sense when I first saw them, but thinking about it now I can understand-- in slow motion, there's the flash of reflected light, and parts of the house start flying away from it (including towards the bomb blast) because it's suddenly heated from the flash of the bomb, and then once the shockwave hits the whole things blows over away from the bomb blast. Weird stuff.

[Tygre]

If you watch the entire video, it gets even more interesting because after the house/bus/object has been blown away from the explosion, the sun-temperature air around ground zero cools back down a few thousand degrees and compresses again, making a vacuum. Freaky freaky.

Ever see the footage of the last underwater one they detonated at Bikini Atoll? They set up a few empty frigates close to it there...those things dissolved like frickin' Alka Seltzer. I think it was more powerful than they thought and a few guys got radiation poisoning.

Back to dreams though, one of the few dreams i remember from back in the day as a child was riding what seemed to be an exercise bike set up in front of a closet. Then suddenly the closet opened and I fell into the hole that was inside it.
I also remember a dream in a desert setting that looked like the Roadrunner cartoons. There was some woman with a scorpion tail chasing me in a red wagon. Yeah, ok.

[Walker]

Yup, you can see shockwaves. You can feel them too, but I guess you knew that.

Hehe, I remember a couple of years ago I was at some fair somewhere, and they'd hired these cowboy-actors out to do a show, it was the centrepiece of the fair.

When the time came for the "entertainment", it revolved around a mock-up bank or jail or something in the centre of a big safety ring, around which was the audience. After various *hilarious* attempts at breaking in, they resorted to a barrel packed with explosive (that was the idea; they would blow the barrel with a percussion charge or something, the bank was rigged to fall down or whatever, and they could get whatever the f*** was inside and finish the damn show).

Except either they were amateurs, or someone set them up, literally, the bomb - the barrel was way overpacked, and the actor dudes were way too close. It blew the bank to wooden shreds and the guys were blown sideways. It was sort of obvious that it wasn't meant to happen, because they didn't get up until some hero types went and dragged them away. Most of them spent the rest of the day wandering around like imbeciles, but the guy who'd been inside the fake bank had to be helicopter'd away.

Anyway, the point is, the shockwave from that barrel was perfectly visible. There was lots of smoke from barbecues and stuff, and you could see it expand through the air faster than you could blink, out of the ring and across the audience, flapping the awnings as it passed and dissipated behind us. Kids at the front of the audience started crying because their ears took a bashing when it passed over. You could feel it on your skin - imagine feeling in an instant like youve just been standing in a fresh wind.