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Post by Gelquie on Mar 18, 2017 17:59:37 GMT -5
So I dreamed that I was accepted into a Masters program and had my first day there...
...At my old high school.
...With a whole list of classes given to me, including PE, that I had to go to, but hey, because I'm in the Masters program, I only had to be at school for less than 3 hours and thus get out early! ...Somehow, given how the classes were 35-45 minutes long and I had like, 7 of them. I wondered mid-dream how I was supposed to learn anything in that span of time.
But I wasn't the only one taking the program there. We had our own room built into the school that we all congregated into and the school was basically balancing a high school curriculum and a master's degree in... basically whatever we wanted.
...Thanks dream, but that's not quite what I had in mind. xD
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Post by Gelquie on Apr 24, 2017 16:45:57 GMT -5
So I had a dream about watching the Finding Dory movie and seeing it through the eyes of the main protagonist. ...I should first let you know that I have never watched Finding Dory. There's actually not a lot of Dory in it. In fact, it's only tangentially related to it at all! So if you're going in here to find Finding Dory references, you'll be disappointed, just like I think the hypothetical movie-goers would be! So the protagonist is some human guy who's part of some underwater company thing? And the 'movie' starts with him having never left the underwater building, since only certain people are allowed to swim out to the surrounding areas. The first part is just him walking around the building and talking to people about procedures that lead to him having a chance to swim out and explore for a bit.
So he does! ...Without any oxygen apparatus, and while I partially remembered that at first, it resulted in one choke before I decided "nah, I don't wanna deal with that". So I guess these people can just breathe underwater, because that's what my protagonist did. But he swam around and saw all sorts of sea life and coral and... I thiiiiink there were buildings? But small ones, and I think they had coral motifs. It was all beautiful, the sea blue and pristine. Oh, and on occasion, he saw Dory flit through his vision, nearly bumping into him a few times. As if the movie was going "oh, by the way, here's some Dory. Nothing happens with her, but here she is."
He goes out a few times more times and gradually does his own thing. Including building his own place out there, and... doing... things? ...that gradually cause the sea in the area to be more polluted. He also starts shaking down the fish residents to do his bidding or to just accept what's going on, and although he doesn't look intimidating at all, he manages to acquire an intimidating look and aura, and so no one really tries to stop him as he builds an underwater factory. He also gradually decides that he'll just stay out in his place in the sea and do remote work for the company, but ultimately be doing his own thing with his underwater factory. (Don't ask me what the factory is for. I don't know.)
Through the 'movie', he occasionally comes back to the company to report his findings, and as the movie goes on, everyone seems to be eagerly accepting what he's doing. A few more people even go out to check it out or help him! Though there's still a point where the protagonist goes to his underwater factory and goes "I will never leave!"
So all that's over the span of a few years. And at some point, he's settled in his factory, but then some big guy from the company comes over and talks him down about the sheer pollution he's bringing. By this point, the sea is more greenish and murky and there's occasionally human things floating around in it. The protagonist fights back, but then he's threatened to have his factory and way of life taken away.
So the guy decides, oh crap. He's done bad. He's going to have to go out to redeem himself. I think it's a combination of some semblance of morality but mostly it came from the threat of his factory and way of life being taken away from him.
By the way, all of this is most of the movie. He only goes out to redeem himself when the movie is almost over. Dory has only occasionally flitted into view in very vew moments all this time. Yeah, not a lot of Dory in this Finding Dory movie, is there?
So he goes out and tries to find ways to redeem himself. At some point, he finds a big fish caught in... fencing? And he decides that his first act of his redemption will be to get the fish out. So he does, and oh my! By getting the big fish out, he freed two other fish that were trapped by the trapped fish. One is some species I don't remember, the other... is Dory!
The protagonist waits for a thank-you, but Dory is confused, flits around, and doesn't really remember what happened because short-term memory loss. The protagonist waits, but Dory eventually flits of... And the protagonist moves on.
The protagonist swims away, but Dory now appears in his view more often. There's a point where he's thinking about following her to figure out what's going...
.....Aaaand this is the point where I think I ran out of material for the dream, thought "you know, I'm tired of being asleep", and... well, while I was kiiiinda curious where this would've ended, I ultimately decided "eh, I'm bored" and let the dream end like it wanted to. ...So that was Finding Dory! Not a lot of Dory, was there? Why did they even call it Finding Dory? I don't know, but this movie will never be released to DVD. Because it doesn't really exist. (I should watch the actual movie at some point. At the very least, it'll have way more Dory than this had.)
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Post by Thorn on Apr 24, 2017 17:26:58 GMT -5
So I had a dream about watching the Finding Dory movie and seeing it through the eyes of the main protagonist. ...I should first let you know that I have never watched Finding Dory. There's actually not a lot of Dory in it. In fact, it's only tangentially related to it at all! So if you're going in here to find Finding Dory references, you'll be disappointed, just like I think the hypothetical movie-goers would be! So the protagonist is some human guy who's part of some underwater company thing? And the 'movie' starts with him having never left the underwater building, since only certain people are allowed to swim out to the surrounding areas. The first part is just him walking around the building and talking to people about procedures that lead to him having a chance to swim out and explore for a bit.
So he does! ...Without any oxygen apparatus, and while I partially remembered that at first, it resulted in one choke before I decided "nah, I don't wanna deal with that". So I guess these people can just breathe underwater, because that's what my protagonist did. But he swam around and saw all sorts of sea life and coral and... I thiiiiink there were buildings? But small ones, and I think they had coral motifs. It was all beautiful, the sea blue and pristine. Oh, and on occasion, he saw Dory flit through his vision, nearly bumping into him a few times. As if the movie was going "oh, by the way, here's some Dory. Nothing happens with her, but here she is."
He goes out a few times more times and gradually does his own thing. Including building his own place out there, and... doing... things? ...that gradually cause the sea in the area to be more polluted. He also starts shaking down the fish residents to do his bidding or to just accept what's going on, and although he doesn't look intimidating at all, he manages to acquire an intimidating look and aura, and so no one really tries to stop him as he builds an underwater factory. He also gradually decides that he'll just stay out in his place in the sea and do remote work for the company, but ultimately be doing his own thing with his underwater factory. (Don't ask me what the factory is for. I don't know.)
Through the 'movie', he occasionally comes back to the company to report his findings, and as the movie goes on, everyone seems to be eagerly accepting what he's doing. A few more people even go out to check it out or help him! Though there's still a point where the protagonist goes to his underwater factory and goes "I will never leave!"
So all that's over the span of a few years. And at some point, he's settled in his factory, but then some big guy from the company comes over and talks him down about the sheer pollution he's bringing. By this point, the sea is more greenish and murky and there's occasionally human things floating around in it. The protagonist fights back, but then he's threatened to have his factory and way of life taken away.
So the guy decides, oh crap. He's done bad. He's going to have to go out to redeem himself. I think it's a combination of some semblance of morality but mostly it came from the threat of his factory and way of life being taken away from him.
By the way, all of this is most of the movie. He only goes out to redeem himself when the movie is almost over. Dory has only occasionally flitted into view in very vew moments all this time. Yeah, not a lot of Dory in this Finding Dory movie, is there?
So he goes out and tries to find ways to redeem himself. At some point, he finds a big fish caught in... fencing? And he decides that his first act of his redemption will be to get the fish out. So he does, and oh my! By getting the big fish out, he freed two other fish that were trapped by the trapped fish. One is some species I don't remember, the other... is Dory!
The protagonist waits for a thank-you, but Dory is confused, flits around, and doesn't really remember what happened because short-term memory loss. The protagonist waits, but Dory eventually flits of... And the protagonist moves on.
The protagonist swims away, but Dory now appears in his view more often. There's a point where he's thinking about following her to figure out what's going...
.....Aaaand this is the point where I think I ran out of material for the dream, thought "you know, I'm tired of being asleep", and... well, while I was kiiiinda curious where this would've ended, I ultimately decided "eh, I'm bored" and let the dream end like it wanted to. ...So that was Finding Dory! Not a lot of Dory, was there? Why did they even call it Finding Dory? I don't know, but this movie will never be released to DVD. Because it doesn't really exist. (I should watch the actual movie at some point. At the very least, it'll have way more Dory than this had.) Have you seen The Lorax though? Because it does sound a lot like an underwater version of that! xP
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Post by Gelquie on Apr 24, 2017 17:36:02 GMT -5
So I had a dream about watching the Finding Dory movie and seeing it through the eyes of the main protagonist. ...I should first let you know that I have never watched Finding Dory. There's actually not a lot of Dory in it. In fact, it's only tangentially related to it at all! So if you're going in here to find Finding Dory references, you'll be disappointed, just like I think the hypothetical movie-goers would be! So the protagonist is some human guy who's part of some underwater company thing? And the 'movie' starts with him having never left the underwater building, since only certain people are allowed to swim out to the surrounding areas. The first part is just him walking around the building and talking to people about procedures that lead to him having a chance to swim out and explore for a bit.
So he does! ...Without any oxygen apparatus, and while I partially remembered that at first, it resulted in one choke before I decided "nah, I don't wanna deal with that". So I guess these people can just breathe underwater, because that's what my protagonist did. But he swam around and saw all sorts of sea life and coral and... I thiiiiink there were buildings? But small ones, and I think they had coral motifs. It was all beautiful, the sea blue and pristine. Oh, and on occasion, he saw Dory flit through his vision, nearly bumping into him a few times. As if the movie was going "oh, by the way, here's some Dory. Nothing happens with her, but here she is."
He goes out a few times more times and gradually does his own thing. Including building his own place out there, and... doing... things? ...that gradually cause the sea in the area to be more polluted. He also starts shaking down the fish residents to do his bidding or to just accept what's going on, and although he doesn't look intimidating at all, he manages to acquire an intimidating look and aura, and so no one really tries to stop him as he builds an underwater factory. He also gradually decides that he'll just stay out in his place in the sea and do remote work for the company, but ultimately be doing his own thing with his underwater factory. (Don't ask me what the factory is for. I don't know.)
Through the 'movie', he occasionally comes back to the company to report his findings, and as the movie goes on, everyone seems to be eagerly accepting what he's doing. A few more people even go out to check it out or help him! Though there's still a point where the protagonist goes to his underwater factory and goes "I will never leave!"
So all that's over the span of a few years. And at some point, he's settled in his factory, but then some big guy from the company comes over and talks him down about the sheer pollution he's bringing. By this point, the sea is more greenish and murky and there's occasionally human things floating around in it. The protagonist fights back, but then he's threatened to have his factory and way of life taken away.
So the guy decides, oh crap. He's done bad. He's going to have to go out to redeem himself. I think it's a combination of some semblance of morality but mostly it came from the threat of his factory and way of life being taken away from him.
By the way, all of this is most of the movie. He only goes out to redeem himself when the movie is almost over. Dory has only occasionally flitted into view in very vew moments all this time. Yeah, not a lot of Dory in this Finding Dory movie, is there?
So he goes out and tries to find ways to redeem himself. At some point, he finds a big fish caught in... fencing? And he decides that his first act of his redemption will be to get the fish out. So he does, and oh my! By getting the big fish out, he freed two other fish that were trapped by the trapped fish. One is some species I don't remember, the other... is Dory!
The protagonist waits for a thank-you, but Dory is confused, flits around, and doesn't really remember what happened because short-term memory loss. The protagonist waits, but Dory eventually flits of... And the protagonist moves on.
The protagonist swims away, but Dory now appears in his view more often. There's a point where he's thinking about following her to figure out what's going...
.....Aaaand this is the point where I think I ran out of material for the dream, thought "you know, I'm tired of being asleep", and... well, while I was kiiiinda curious where this would've ended, I ultimately decided "eh, I'm bored" and let the dream end like it wanted to. ...So that was Finding Dory! Not a lot of Dory, was there? Why did they even call it Finding Dory? I don't know, but this movie will never be released to DVD. Because it doesn't really exist. (I should watch the actual movie at some point. At the very least, it'll have way more Dory than this had.) Have you seen The Lorax though? Because it does sound a lot like an underwater version of that! xP I've only seen reviews of it. xD And while I haven't read the book, I have watched the 70s cartoon version (it's on youtube), so I know the jist of the plot. You're right, it does seem like an expy of a Lorax plot, without a Lorax character (unless... is Dory supposed to be the Lorax? Cause she did a pretty bad job at it.) and with a different direction of the later parts of the plot... (Spoilers for being specific.) As while in the Lorax story, the last tree is cut down and then everything Awful until someone really cares enough to grow a new tree to try to make better an awful future. While in this dream, the protagonist realizes it before it gets entirely to that point and tries to figure out how to avoid this future from an already bad position.
...Even if it's under the motive of "I don't wanna lose my companyyyyy D= ", but I find that interesting, actually, as that can give room for growth as they maybe come to see the morality of it.
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Post by Twillie on Apr 26, 2017 9:38:01 GMT -5
So, there's this adult action/comedy film called Machete, and it has a sequel, Machete Kills. I've never seen the first one, but have watched parts of the sequel after accidentally discovering it online through a Lady Gaga music video. She's actually also in the film, which is of course what got me curious x) Watched maybe the first ten minutes before I paused it and never got around to playing it again, but last night I had a dream that I watched the movie in full. Except this time, it was an animated musical starring (and possibly written by?) Lady Gaga.
Not sure how much I should really describe it here, but in short it started out as something of a mix between Showgirls and A Handmaid's Tale before gradually turning into more of an urban scifi, but it was always a huge, cheesy opera x) I just really wish it was a movie now because I would watch it so much xD
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Post by PFA on Apr 27, 2017 12:44:48 GMT -5
I had this dream where me and a bunch of other people were at this... building? I'm pretty sure it was a LARP in the dream, but idk if story-wise it was supposed to be like a permanent living space or just a temporary thing. Anyway, we were there, and there were these creepy caretaker people there who were leading us around to these different activities and things to distract us from finding out THE TRUTH. So of course, our goal was to try and evade the caretakers long enough to get into the forbidden parts of the building and find out what was going on. I'd managed to find a key and get into a small closet thing, where I found these strange journal entries that had been stashed away in there. There were a bunch of them and they were out of order, so I started skimming through them to try and get an idea what was contained in them. As I was doing this, Lizzie showed up with some guy idk who it was, and they asked me what I'd found. I explained to them that, from what I could glean, the journal entries described a young girl who had become enamored with this mysterious new boy who had come to this probably living space where we were staying. But then the guy turned out to be some kind of psycho killer, and probably killed the girl or something. But before I could get much more information, one of the caretaker people found me and creepily informed me that I was "not supposed to be in here " before dragging me outside, where another caretaker (who I think was played by my RL uncle?) started pushing me cheerfully but forcefully to another activity. And that's when I woke up!
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Post by Coaster on Jun 3, 2017 16:27:55 GMT -5
This one seemed rather long but also kind of demarcated into distinct-ish sections so I'ma start with the first "section" that wasn't too covered in old-dream-fuzz to remember
1. "Bullet Gym"
So apparently I was on some kind of odd class trip/army mission hybrid thing? There was basically a school gym but on one end was a wall full of essentially Bullet Bill cannons (minus the face/arms) which we had to take out by firing our tiny pistols one shot at a time from behind our protective wall which it turned out was also full of motion-sensitive shooters, so we had to move extra-slow or else we would get fired at by our own barricade (or dodge out of the way when an entire wall of small missiles readied itself). We made some slow headway but the biggest problem was that we couldn't see the wall with our tiny pistols while firing, and the far wall would fire at us if we were visible. So I went out the back door of the gym through an area that I must have visited in dream-world before because there was like an HM sort of thing (yes, random Pokémon mechanics insertion) that gave people a sort of shield that was translucent in the center, which was perfect because then we could see what we were shooting at while still being protected. I provided this to the teacher/captain/whatever? and was commended because that was exactly what we needed. There was a brief intermission where the evil opposing general/politician person made a brief appearance and it seemed like he asked their side to increase the firepower or something, and I was told by our captain/teacher to go look for anything else that might be helpful; after a few more trips around the halls there was nothing else of interest, but by the time I got back to the gym area, the opposite wall and our barricade were all destroyed and our team was celebrating our victory, so I was like cool, now what?
2. "Sky Warehouse"
After that it seemed we were on to the next step of the mission which seemed to turn more into a scavenger hunt; we all went into this huge warehouse/hardware store type thing, which was laid out such that there were no shelves, but rows and rows of metal cylinder bars which all the merchandise hung off of (kinda like a clothes rack), and these kind of stacked higher and higher like branches until they went up to the open ceiling above. So, our class/group had to climb up to the top to find the racks where we could find these specific gasket things were (as each of us were given a specific part number to look for; I think mine was like U4-02 or something). We did so, but I had trouble finding mine; it turns out it was in a sort of different section and wasn't actually a gasket but some different part (which it said, in those exact words, on the package itself), so I was like, oh. cool. But I was still nervous because a bunch of boys in the class were messing around and shaking the racks and stuff, and it was like, dudes, these are kind of unstable and we're very high up, plz don't. Captain agreed and we all made our way back down to pay for these parts and move on to the next step. On my way down, though, it turns out I was a fair ways behind everyone else, because another large group came in between them and me and had to pay for stuff at the same time. In the meantime I looked around and leafed through some illustrated books and paintings and such which were apparently supposed to foreshadow something according to dream-logic. By the time I finally got to the register, it was clear I was way behind my class and they were already through the next step and such (a plane also took off nearby, which I was afraid everyone else might be on, in which case I was basically stuck). I asked the cashier what kind of hint/step was given to everyone else and they gave me a couple of receipt/certificate/paper things which had very cryptic and frankly unhelpful clues, except that they had a business name and address at the bottom which was definitely not the place I was at because it was like Lancasters' Star Tea or something like that.
3. "Paper Fortune Teller"
So I kind of wandered through the streets (which was kind of sketchy because it was nighttime and there were some not-so-savory people trying to stop me periodically for. not-good things) until I managed to find a Lancasters' something-or-other (definitely not tea), but it was a lead, so I went around the side and to a bit of an alley and found the Star Tea shop. It seemed deserted initially, save for some very hippie/witchy-looking merchandise, but I went around the corner and where in real-life circumstances there would be some kind of "Employees Only" closed door, instead it was a wide open entryway to what seemed to be the proprietors' living room, and it turned out they were an old couple in their bathrobes, sooo that was mildly disturbing. But since it was the place I was looking for, I offered the receipts to the lady and asked if she could interpret the clues on them to find out where I should go. Key words on the receipts supposedly corresponded to numbers (which ended up being 13 28), so my initial thought was there was something to do with time travel, and that the rest of the class went to the next mission on some magic school bus type time machine, while I had to find a DeLorean and dial in the name and location myself. But it turns out that part was a complete red herring, because in fact, I needed to just find a giant prop Mawile farther down the street at that address (I was at 1432 roadname or something, and needed to go to 1328) and get eaten by it. So I did and there was a sort of Alice-entering-Wonderland kind of slide and I ended up somewhere.
4. "DIDNEY WORL"
So either I'm in a completely unrelated place from the rest of the class at this point, or they all turned into Disney characters and don't remember where they are. Apparently at this point I've taken on the avatar of Mickey Mouse who, as we know, is basically Disney God. So I go around this small area and try to talk to a few characters, notably Timon, Pumbaa, and Young-Simba--but the lattermost is confused and annoyed because Young-Nala is there, and I'm like wait, this doesn't happen in the movie, maybe this is plot-related and I need to fix the Disney stories somehow? Anyways, I head into the next area (passing by a tiny cottage which apparently has the Seven Dwarves in it, with the aforementioned Lion King characters being in their yard), and end up coming out into a big valley area which seems to be basically a small under-development happy Disney fun land, as there are a couple buildings which are definitely themed after Disney princesses and the like. I go a little down the hill and there's Epic Mickey Castle building so I'm like, cool, this seems like a safe area! I go into one of the other nearby buildings and Elsa's there and we hug each other because yay for peaceful village I guess? And we talk briefly about I don't know what, and then I head out again and see if I can find other Disney Princesses who might need their stories resolved. Thankfully as Disney God Mickey I can fly around Minecraft-Creative style, but since I'm not to keen on going Under The Sea to see if Ariel needs help, I look around the foresty area nearby and spot Beast being kinda feral in the woods; I go to the nearest building that's farther out of the way from the village and come across a narrow tower where Belle is. We also hug for some reason. It seems that Beast has followed us from the forest, which is probably a good thing, because this part of the mission is to get Belle and Beast to unite. But maybe not while he's in such a bad mood, which is why we need to run him up and down the tower stairs until he gets tired out and then convince Belle to befriend him while he's in his right mind. We do so (tediously) and then I head back to the village.
5. "why are we racing"
Disneyness abruptly stops and I become the passenger in a very realistic high-speed race in a pickup truck (I guess driven by captain from earlier?) against an AI-controlled green minivan that captain is very contemptuous towards. For a while it's just a standard race but then it briefly becomes a footrace because we need to go back to that tall hardware store and get a thing, except this time we get Mewtwo Teleport powers and can get it really easily, and then the race continues except we almost went the wrong way but then noticed the minivan went the other way, and it turns out, it's surprisingly easy to pass because it's in easy mode or something. I wake up around the middle of the second lap where for some reason I'm in the bed of the truck and need to hold on as it goes high-speed down a hill.
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Post by Gelquie on Jun 14, 2017 17:00:17 GMT -5
Last night, I dreamed it was my first day in the master's program. I had just moved in and was all settled in my abode, it was time for my first day!
Except I forgot to do everything required for it. Forgot to submit forms and do administrative things before the first day of school, so I had to rush to do all that.
And then I got my cubicle assignment and went to it, only it wasn't really cubicles; just a general outer wall and then inside are some tiny tables where some grad students were sitting, and I had my choice of "cubicle"; aka, one of the tiny tables. I was thinking "well, maybe I can put up more walls myself". For some reason, I didn't question this dream logic.
Then while doing all the administrative work, I realized that oh no, I was going to miss my class! Except I didn't know where it was or what time it was supposed to take place! Rather than ask anyone about it or take time to try to find my schedule, I proceeded to walk from administrative place to administrative place doing various tasks while continuously fretting about my class. Then I was walking away and thinking "what if I'm missing my classss, what if I missed it entirely?" and then began to worry about screwing up at grad school already.
And then I woke up and remembered that I wasn't actually in it yet, the cubicles were actual cubicles (I've seen them), and that I'm actually pretty good about remembering my schedule and going to classes.
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Post by ♥ Azzie on Jun 16, 2017 10:46:11 GMT -5
I had a dream we were all playing minecraft, but it had a story to it- you had to overcome these bad guys and surmount the odds to build a big sanctuary, then find a way to keep it warm because the sanctuary was built in the icy mountains. The way to get the best ending was to ask for help at a shrine thing, and a spark of pure warmth would fall from it. You were then supposed to take this spark and place it on a flower that sprouted in the sanctuary, but it would only work if everyone who'd ever logged into the server had placed at least one block before that. We had all built this beautiful sanctuary, a big underground park with secret hiding places and trees, but there were a few people from another site who had been on the server once and never again, so a lot of the dream was spent trying to get them to come on and place a block. One girl I contacted, I remember, said "I'll do it when I have time. Oh, but let me tell you about my new boyfriend!" And carried on and on. I don't remember much else except that there was a cat mafia among the bad guys who tried to attack us because we found them out.
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Post by PFA on Jun 17, 2017 23:36:06 GMT -5
OH YEAH I had a dream where I was playing a cross between Final Fantasy and Pokémon, where the world and enemies were all Final Fantasy-esque, but I also had a team of Pokémon. IIRC I had like a level 1 Cleffa and the rest of my team was around level 20, so pretty early in the game. Except that I was also playing a "randomized enemies" hack, so my weak team ended up getting trashed by a high-level boss \ o /
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Post by ♥ Azzie on Jul 18, 2017 12:39:23 GMT -5
I had a very strange dream that involved some kind of secluded building filled with various people who were in hiding for different reasons. I think some of them were training to become apprentices/heirs to this friendly alien queen person, and there were some other aliens down the hall, and I think possibly it was fae down another hall? Anyway it was pretty chilled out at first but then someone decided to host a party, and in the resulting commotion some bad guys got in. It wasn't immediately apparent but some of the party decorations started getting dangerous, and these giant mascot costumes started showing up and the people in them were trying to do something that would let them take over the building. I think they wanted to use this building full of strange people as a base of operations. By the time the party actually started they had locked mostly everyone in the party room, and the few who actually knew something was up (aka the ones who'd gotten stuck in the party traps while trying to set them up) were trying to escape. I was one of the fae-people and I ran out of the building in the commotion, but these people were scary competent. As I was running the ground in front of me started bulging and this huge flying machine that acted like a claw-game claw erupted out of it. I ran, but the thing was much faster than me, and it picked me up and flew me back to the building, where they lost track of me once again. But this time I had an idea; I ran into the room where all the other people who knew the truth were hiding, leading the bad guys right there. A couple of the rebels managed to lock the door behind them but they didn't notice, they were too excited about having everyone who resisted them in one place. They immediately started gripping everyone by the wrists, which put them under mind control and turned them into giant suit-people. When they got to me, I still turned into a suit-person (I believe I was a giant banana for some reason) but the mind control didn't work, because I had "a burn on my mind" whatever that meant. It also broke the mind control on everyone else, but the bad guys didn't realize any of that. Until a few minutes later, where we collectively tackled them all (about a dozen people in huge foam mascot suits easily pinned 5-6 normal-sized people) where we basically just chilled until the cops, who had been called earlier, got there to arrest them.
It was extremely weird.
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Post by Birdy on Jul 22, 2017 22:03:32 GMT -5
I had a weird dream last night about a uh... "children's book". (Like, picture-style children's book. Not a novel-type.)
It was about a raccoon. Said raccoon was telling its Life Story.
...Or rather, Lives' Stories.
See, this raccoon had been reincarnated. Multiple times.
It started life in the... Mesozoic? Cretaceous? ...one of them prehistoric periods, as a... something. Dinosaur-ish critter? I dunno. And all was well, the raccoon reported, "until I got my chest ripped open by a" ...something. I think brain-image was either a tyrannosaurus rex or something similar. (And as mentioned, the "raccoon" was a... something. I almost wanna say stegosaurus, but I dunno how much of that is what I actually saw in the dream, and how much of it is brain trying to fill in details and so grabbing tangentially-related things, such as a certain segment from Fantasia. I think it's more the latter.)
And I guess there were other events over the lives, but next thing I really remember it was back to the raccoon again and it was saying something, but I dunno what. Probably getting ready to tell another story or something.
So yeah, I had a dream about a children's book that was about a reincarnating raccoon from prehistoric times.
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Post by Celestial on Aug 11, 2017 9:27:26 GMT -5
I had a dream which my younger self would call a nightmare and be scared out of her wits by but I think it's actually cool and might make a nice premise for a horror story.
So in the dream, I (or the person I was in the dream, since I had a feeling I was someone else) killed a child in self-defence because this child was attacking me. Except this boy was posessed by a monster called "the thin child". Which is an apt description because this creature had thin, lanky limbs and a pot belly. It had no eyes but where it's head was there was only a mouth with lots of sharp long teeth akin to a deep sea fish. The thing was, when its previous host was killed, the Thin Child jumped hosts and took over whoever killed it, which was me. So I was now posessed by this creature.
The Thin Child only came out when it was dark around its host, or it would take over when its host was asleep. The host would not know what had happened while the creature was in control. So the next part of the dream was me fighting to stay in the light and stay awake, all while being hunted by monster hunters who wanted to capture me and this thing. All while the monster was murmuring in my head to let it kill them and occassionally giving me glimpses of it.
Then the dream turned into me trying to find my way around the London Underground for some reason, except it looked nothing like the London Underground, because dreams have no attention span.
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Post by Allison on Sept 1, 2017 20:45:38 GMT -5
So I only remember one part of this dream, but it's pretty funny, and worthy of sharing.
In my dream last night/early this morning, I made up (attempted to make up would probably be more accurate) a phrase for when people don't believe an excuse you give them. So in my dream, I was late for something and I gave some excuse, and the person I was talking to (I don't know/remember who it was) didn't believe me. So I said, "What, you think I got stung by a rhinoceros?" The reaction of other person was about what you'd expect, as was mine, when I realized what I had said. Dreams are so weird.
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Post by Coaster on Sept 25, 2017 16:42:03 GMT -5
Well, apparently it's been a while since I've had a weird dream. This one is kinda extremely long, though. The basic setting for this one is that there is this family that lives in a big old-timey mansion which it seems may also double as a church; the main characters that show up are the dad (who seems to be a worship pastor and/or priest, and may or may not be some form of vampire? he looks 20-something but has white hair so idk maybe just animesque aesthetic), and two pre-teen fraternal twins (one assigned male, one assigned female. why twins? idk, twins are ~*maaagiiiick*~). Except the assigned male one is also a trans girl (let's call her Emily). Her sister (let's call her Kate) is told or finds out and is super supportive and cool with it, but they're both afraid of what dad would think.
Of course, the obvious solution is for Emily to make an innocent wish-on-a-star to be able to live as a girl, a wish which accidentally invokes some occult curse sort of circumstances. Turns out, she more or less gets her wish, and her body's the way she wants it to be and such. Except throughout each week she also slowly takes on demon-like characteristics until by the end of the week she would scare off any good pious person just by being seen, but turns back to normal at the start of Sunday, only to repeat the process again.
At this point dad obviously finds out and is upset about everything (kid being trans, not being told sooner, demon-stuff especially considering he's a holy man, etc.) and goes full-on overprotective mode, not letting Emily go to school or visit friends or even watch movies or play video games or anything that could connect her to the outside world. Except church. She still has to go to church every week, which is all well and good because they live in/next to a church anyways and she's only completely normal on Sundays anyways, leading dad to believe it's The Power Of Prayer that refreshes her non-demon-ness on that day.
Needless to say, the folks at the church (an old-timey church with flying buttresses and big cathedral room and such like that) are not happy about this kid being trans (by dad's intention, they have no idea about the whole demon thing, which is also well and good because they only ever see her on Sunday anyways and have no idea she's basically under house arrest). Emily and Kate (who is super supportive even with the whole unwilling weekly demon mutation aspect) sit on the balcony in the back rather than in the crowd so that Emily can avoid all the judgy transphobic stares during the service (and Kate also points out how repetitive a lot of the songs are, at one point when the two skip out to hang out elsewhere in the house/church area), but during the church brunch thing afterwards, people repeatedly (one by one, but still) come up to Emily and intentionally misgender her but all around be fairly nice other than expressing obvious disdain and ignorance for trans stuff. Kate comes to her rescue all like "exCUSE me how can you keep calling her a boy when she's completely living as a girl do you know how stupid you sound right now etc".
One week some of the twins' mutual school friends come to visit in the afternoon after church; they already were told the trans part (not the demonish part) of the situation by Kate and are also super supportive (although of course they don't recognize Emily at first), but they miss having Emily around, so while dad isn't paying attention, they hatch a plan to smuggle Emily to school so they can hang out (at least outside during lunch hour) like old times, and potentially also give her access to movies and video games and such wonders of modern technology which her dad irrationally and arbitrarily cut her off from. Needless to say Emily is concerned about this because even on Monday changes kinda start, but she and Kate know that the little that does happen by then would be really easy to hide, so they go along with it. (Incidentally, this school has uniforms à la the type I had to wear in elementary school which weren't stereotypical but still a limited range of acceptable school-purchased options, but laundry hadn't been done in a while, so Kate only had her own uniform and Emily has to go plain-clothes which makes her stick out like a sore thumb to begin with).
Monday lunch hour goes roughly as could be expected for this unusual situation; Emily and Kate and friends are sitting near the building off in a corner away from most of the other kids, and while Emily is glad to have some social interaction that isn't repressive traditionalist church, she's still super concerned about random demon stuff popping up and preoccupied with how the whole curse started and how to remove that part of it. She also realizes that her memory of each week is fuzzy towards the end and she doesn't remember much about Saturdays at all other than a lot of dark. Of course, since it isn't Sunday, a few small things pop up while the other friends are chatting, starting with vestigial pointy demon tail which causes her to let out an oddly-timed "ouch" since y'know, she's suddenly sitting down on a spike and everything, and making her paranoid for the rest of the day that horns might start poking out enough to be visible. Either way, Emily makes it home undiscovered, and Kate is really sorry for pressuring her but wishes there was a way for her to be able to have more social contact.
So Kate and her friends have the wonderful idea of surprising Emily with an impromptu movie night on Tuesday night! It's risky, but the house is really big, so dad wouldn't notice if they were up late after dark; and regardless, if they're discovered, Emily could just quickly go and hide since Kate's allowed to be up late and have friends over as long as Emily is confined elsewhere anyways. (The fact that everybody is bringing snacks seals the deal for Emily.) Since it's a church, and despite it being rigidly traditional for the most part, there's good sound and projection equipment and such (not everything's acoustic anymore I guess) which isn't being used again until Sunday anyways, so they just hijack it and hook it up in a smaller room in the main part of the house and grab some couches and blankets and watch some movie that dream logic would not show anything of (and possibly play some Wii U platformer racing game? dream logic). Emily is having fun but also has to be practically covered full-body (oversized hoodie and sweat pants to hide the still fairly small but otherwise decidedly unusual horns, spiky imp tail, small wings, and claws) and a bit away from the couch so that said traits aren't visible. It works out that the lights are off (and in fact need to be off), anyways, but she's still super uncomfortable with the idea of being seen, so when someone goes up to her and asks her to pass the chips she freaks out and books it and locks herself in, not her room, but more of a big old-timey parlor room with some bookshelves and a giant window covered with a curtain.
Kate follows to Emily's door and lets her know that she told the friends that Emily was just suddenly feeling sick, which fit in with the usual story of Emily typically having a regular cycle of being sick--although the friends halfway take that as "really bad period that cycles weekly" which to be fair is accurate in a metaphorical sense--and asks if Emily needs some company. A sequence reminiscent of "Do You Wanna Build A Snowman" follows in which Emily is increasingly a scared antisocial self-loathing hermit over the course of the week, still locked by herself in that parlor room. Dad is okay with this when he wakes up Wednesday morning and notices this--as Emily had typically forgotten, that's business as usual at the tail end of the week anyways as changes progress, just that usually he needs to lock her in there himself when she starts acting out--but this week, that doesn't stop Kate from trying to communicate.
Meanwhile, Emily has many sessions of being essentially a puddle of demonic-looking emotional meltdown on the floor, but alternately gets up and tries pay close attention to, and record (on the handy paper present in the parlor), everything that happens to her mentally over the course of the week, so she can circumvent the foggy memory she usually gets. For some reason despite not eating for days she doesn't feel hungry in the normal sense but towards the end she gets peckish with some kind of unplaceable Horror Hunger™ which isn't so much "human blood/flesh" as much as life essence or soul or something non-gruesome like that. Also, judging by the light peeking through the semi-translucent curtains, the days appear less and less bright (way beyond the usual bounds of the solar cycle and weather) until Friday is basically all-day dusk.
By Saturday mid-morning, or what should be Saturday mid-morning but looks more like midnight by her sight, Emily becomes vaguely aware that while mentally asleep, she's been physically awake all night just flying and climbing around (somehow not destroying anything, but just expending extra energy); she seizes this moment of cognizance to take control of her body enough to write as much down, and presumes she usually just "sleeps through" Saturday until her body tires itself out enough to be human again by Sunday. With good timing, Kate comes in the door--which is somehow now unlocked--somewhat furtively, closes it behind her, and walks slowly towards Emily, who's obviously a little confused.
Apparently Emily doesn't usually speak on Saturdays because Kate is visibly surprised when Emily asks things like "What's the matter? How did you get in here?" from the other end of the room; apparently dad was paying more attention than usual this week (having heard the movie night as it happened but presumably not knowing Emily was part of it) and even sitting by the door in silence sometimes, which was unusual for him (or perhaps Kate just hadn't noticed since she usually wasn't around as often or trying to speak to her as much either). Emily does a mental facepalm realizing that this might be part of why she was more "awake" than usual this week, if she was somehow leeching energy off her family rather than going into a hunger coma.
Anyways, Emily is still rather uncomfortable being approached (given her current features) and reflexively does "get-away-from-me" postures like fanning out her wings and lowering her head, but to her surprise, Kate goes up and hugs her (as uncomfortable as it would probably be for both parties for her to do so). Emily is afraid for a moment of what might happen, but Kate seems just fine, leading Emily to speculate that she just feeds on love or something. Accordingly (since love is an infinitely renewable resource that doesn't get depleted by being accepted and such), she calms down a bit, but is still very insecure about Kate seeing her this grotesque, and tells Kate again to get away from her because she's hideous.
Kate lets her know that even on previous weeks she tries to check in on Saturday mornings while dad's working on his sermon: some weeks there are shrieks and banging noises and she doesn't do more than listen; other weeks it's silent, and she takes a peek through the door and sees Emily lying on the floor slowly quivering, but she's definitely seen Emily fully mutated before. Moreover, this is the first time she ventured to go fully inside for a while, because there was one week Emily seemed completely out of her mind even after Kate entered, so she was afraid of being attacked. But this was the first time Emily seemed stable--of course, Emily thought, because of the extra attention--so she had to take the opportunity to show her acceptance no matter what. Cue heartfelt moment, some tears, etc.
Emily asks whether the day looks as dark to Kate as it does to her. Kate says it does look pitch-black past the curtain, which is odd since she was just in the rest of the house and it was a perfectly normal sunny day. They sit down by the table and discuss how things were going this week, including Emily's records and what was going on outside the room (apparently two of their mutual friends got in an argument at school about whether they caused Emily to get grounded or sick and should go visit, or whether that would only cause more trouble), and ultimately they just spend the day together with dream-logic-talk-through-all-hours-of-the-day-timeskip until Kate falls asleep. After a while longer, Emily hears a church bell/grandfather clock chime, presumably indicating midnight starting Sunday, even though she's never heard anything like that before (even on normal weekends before the curse). Oddly, she can't tell whether her changes have reversed or are reversing yet (she's always been asleep one way or another at this time in preceding weeks), but she shakes Kate awake, and Kate agrees that something is up, so... dream logic decides to end it here where they apparently have the intention of trying to figure out what is causing this curse since there's such a unique opportunity right now.
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