Weird dreams

Last night, I had a dream that I was living in some bizzaro history book. I don't remember all the details, but I do remember a chapter where I had to excavate artifacts from a Cold-War era ruined house. After I found enough artifacts, I could go to the second floor, where I found a picture that was presumed to be of Muffet (Undertale) cooking. Yes, in a Cold War era house. So yeah, major anachronism stew there.

My dream last night started with me wandering around my neighborhood, but I somehow ended up miles away on a street with some weird businesses. I walked into one building, named something like "Shark Collecter". It was owned by this person who fished for sharks, then sold them to aquariums, restaurants, and other places.

In the next part, I was playing some online game. It was a bit like Agar Io, but instead of eating each other to grow, the players were fighting each other and leveling up. Also, instead of being dots, you could be almost anything. Video game characters, animals, celebrities, and more. You could choose from one of these characters every time you got enough points from battling enough players. And each character you purchased was saved to your profile, so you wouldn't have to start from the bottom every time you started a new game.

There were some CPU characters to fight, too. One that I remember was GLaDOS, who fired missiles at you while trying to have polite conversation with you.

Last night I had a dream about a "sauna" that I was reluctant to go into because I didn't want to get overheated (I hate the heat). My mother took me to it. To my joyful surprise, the "sauna" was actually an arcade. The games were weird...I remember seeing in ugly bootleg Pikachu plush in a claw machine. There were a couple of these machines that had a bootleg Sailor Moon on them because...I don't know why. I don't really remember much about these weird games, except one.

It was formatted and played very similar to TLOZ: Link to the Past, what with the topdown view and the layout of the scenery, and how the hero used/controlled the sword. I'm pretty sure the hero was an animal, maybe a rabbit, and the game took place is some fantasy cottage type environment. I remember trying to kill a Moomin with my sword, and it ran offscreen. The music changed, and then some Smurf expies started attacking my character. It was actually a cool game, I wouldn't mind it existing in real life.

Another convoluted one last night.

I was in a bar in the local downtown, and I had met a very interesting drinking buddy (it's notable that I NEVER drink IRL and have been to a bar basically once). First of all, he was a Pandaren, which nobody seemingly found odd in any way. Second, he told me three things that were very important in his life; he owned a vault full of money that was otherwise worthless, but used as an universal currency in a specific region of the world, a very hostile ocean filled with the supernatural called Khadran. Second, he had a life expectancy of five years. Third, he was planning a massive expedition to Khadran, with a massive ship and a crew of hundreds. I, for some reason, was very inspired by his (I'll call him the Captain from now on. He was a very Captain Nemo like figure, just less hateful and megalomaniacal) dedication to spending his last years doing something groundbreaking (apparently, Khadran had never been mapped, and only had a couple isolated cities and settlements here and there. Also, later it became quite apparent that Khadran is one big Eldritch Location where everything is more or less dangerous) so I decided to join up with his expedition.

A few people I used to know IRL were apparently recruited by him earlier, and he planned on meeting with them and setting off to where the expedition was supposed to start. The Captain also told me that the expedition was sponsored by the Ghostbusters (probably because of the abundance of supernatural in Khadran), that every member of the expedition had to pledge their lives for the expedition, to the Ghostbusters, and to his final wish to explore Khadran (this dedication of one's life was signified by a very familiar salute). And that the Templar Order (itself a weird fusion of the one in Assassin's Creed and the one in Dragon Age) was doing everything in its power to prevent him from gathering crew for the expedition. This latter fact sent the whole bunch of us on the run. Not because we had to get to the ship before the Templars chasing us (in very inconspicuous full-body plate armour) caught us; no, it was because two of us had to go to the bathroom before we left. This then escalated into a weird chase sequence through a shopping mall, the group splitting up and rejoining with a chaotic pace. I remember jumping over a ledge on one floor to land to a snack bar on the floor below. Not to shake off the Templars, just to get to that floor in the most confusing way possible. We were apparently looking for a very specific restaurant (named Chef Rubber Duck, or something like that) where we could use the bathroom safely. Only that none of us could remember where it was.

That sequence stopped during the chase, and it was revealed that it had all been a flashback. I was sitting on a long, sandy beach with rocks and small shrubbery everywhere. Along with a whole bunch of other people, most of whom wore simple, practical clothes. Many, including myself, wore bandanas, which made us look like a bunch of pirates. Anyway, the ship was still aground, we hadn't set off yet. Said ship was absolutely colossal (like, think of a sailing ship with a metallic hull the size of an aircraft carrier, and you have something close to our expedition ship).

We were still huddling about on the beach, because we had to perform proper rites in order to ensure that misfortune doesn't plague our ship. Khadran was apparently a place where all nautical folklore is true, and only an idiot would dismiss anything as superstition in there, that much I gathered from the others. Somebody among the bunch had a book of nautical folklore, and I took a look at it. Very colourful illustrations about sacrificing various animals, from goats to white tigers, the proper way. Anyway, some of the crew were at the shore, trying to sacrifice a goat in order to bind local ocean spirits to protect our ship. Emphasis on trying, as the goat was huge and strong, and easily escaped from them. This miserably failed attempt apparently pissed off the ocean spirits, as a small army of roughly one meter tall crabs soon emerged from the sea and attacked us. I never joined in on that fight, mostly because I was busy trying to help another member of the crew who had been attacked by something else. Specifically, she had been grabbed by the leg by something lurking under the sand, and that thing was dragging her away when I stopped it. She made it, but apparently she got a curse on herself, evident from her eyes suddenly glowing green.

A bit later, night fell. No sunset or anything, it just got dark. The crew put up fires, and most of us refused to sleep, given that we were at the shore of Khadran and something might creep up on them while asleep. I was around a fire together with the guys who had tried the goat sacrifice and the now-cursed girl. Apparently, the curse made her a magnet for nasty insects, as she was constantly swatting mosquitoes. We decided to go to the Captain and request to sleep in the ship when her curse lured a bunch of scorpions to us. The scorpions were being reasonably calm, as undisturbed big scorpions can be expected to be, and actually were resisting the curse urging them on to sting the other girl, but we decided the ship's ghost-proofed ventilation and massive armoured hull would make for a safer night. No idea why all of us weren't sleeping on the ship, instead of the beach, vulnerable to being attacked by any number of things.

I remember the Captain explaining something about us having to help prepare the ship (which involved wearing a Ghostbusters-issued proton pack) if we wanted to stay in the ship for the night. As far as I remember, the dream ended there. I'm totally writing something based on this.

edited 25th May '17 12:36:08 AM by ArilouLaLeeLay

One Dream involved an a cappella group from Lansing that used to perform at my high school because my choir teacher was a big fan of theirs. They looked like they did in the 90s (the lead singer hadn't gone bald and the bass singer hadn't gained weight) and they were in tuxedos instead of colored shirts. They were singing Peter and Gordon's "I Go to Pieces" and it sounded exactly like Southern Pacific's a cappella version from 1990, except interspersed with comedy from three women I didn't recognize.

The second was me trying to apply for an apartment. The lady at the front desk said she wasn't sure if I could apply since I had one three years ago and abandoned it. She said I would choose a potential roommate (also a woman) who would ask me ten questions. I would indicate whether I agreed or disagreed by giving her fast food salt and pepper packets: salt for agree and pepper for disagree. I ended up disagreeing with all ten questions because they were all things like "I think sleep is more important than work." They were also offering pop. I got a root beer, then went back for a cream soda that tasted awful.

The third was that I met a furry artist that I had known since forever at an abandoned bar in my town. I asked him if he would draw me fan art of Undyne and Alphys. He agreed and drove me up the highway to the next town in a red Volkswagen, with us discussing the details of the art all the way.

I'm sitting on the train and suddenly some guy walks up to me, bends down and starts rubbing up against my legs like he's a cat. For some reason, I just sit there and let him do it, then once he's done I get mad because he had a bloody nose and got blood all over my pants.

My dream last night was weird.

It started with a sneak peek trailer for a new Finding Nemo movie. I don't remember much about it, except that it took place in the dentist's fish tank from the first movie, and there were some new fish in it along with the characters from the first movie.

After that, my family and I were at a library somewhere, checking out books. I got 4 books, but I only remember one of them: a book about the making of the Super Solvers series, an Edutainment Game series from the 90's. It was a big book with information about how The Learning Company came up with the concept for the series, how they designed the characters, etc., along with general information on the process of making a video game (or at least, making a video game back then.) It also apparently contained information about the series' voice actors, which I really wanted to read, because I've been dying to find out who voiced Morty Maxwell.

There were these little pamphlets you could check out as well. I was looking at one that apparently contained secret information about Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, when a door opened nearby, and I saw Circus Baby standing there. I quickly said "Nope", shut the door on her, and put the pamphlet back on the shelf.

After that, my dad was driving us all home from the library, when we got in a car accident. I don't remember how it happened, but I think we got rear-ended by the guy behind us. Fortunately, we were all okay, and at least the guy was sorry about it.

I had another dream with multiple parts last night.

In the first part, I was in come CGI Disney movie. It was basically Beauty and the Beast, but the main characters were all kids. Despite this, it was surprisingly dark.

Anyway, the story was about a little girl (I don't think her name was Belle, but she was basically this story's version of her) who came to investigate an old, dark castle that was supposedly abandoned. That's where she met my character. I was the Plucky Comic Relief character, and I was either a bat, a rat, or something similar. I lived in the castle, but I only stayed in one small room because I was scared. But the girl convinced me to join her as she explored the rest of the castle.

We found out that there was a resident in the castle, a little boy who had been turned into a beast. Apparently, he had come to the castle long ago, and somehow died in it. A sorceress came along and turned him into a beast, thinking it was the only way to save him.

After that, the dream switched to a (fictional) black-and-white Mickey Mouse cartoon called "Mickey Goes for a Swim". It was about Mickey swimming in a river. I didn't get to see how the cartoon actually ended, but I did watch several "alternate endings", all created by the same animator, and all of which involved Mickey getting eaten by a giant clam.

Continuing on the "giant monster clam" theme, apparently, , in the next part of my dream, I was in some old B-movie called something like "Attack of the Giant Robo Clam!" I thought this was going to be fun, right? A movie with such a silly title must be fun to be in, right?

Nope. It was surprisingly gruesome and depressing. The movie was about this guy who basically hated everyone, so he built this giant "Robo Clam" and took it into the town square, where he threatened to kill everyone with it. He had a small team of people helping him, but the only one I remember was an old lady. Anyway, I somehow got roped into joining this guy's team to help him kill people.

He barely even used the Robo Clam to kill people, he mainly just came down and killed them with various other gadgets while the rest of us watched from within the Robo Clam (which had tentacle legs to hold us high above the ground). For some reason, the people didn't even try to run away or do anything, they just sat there and screamed in horror whenever someone died. But I still felt awful for them, and eventually I couldn't take it anymore. I came up with a plan to commit suicide while sabotaging the gadgets, but I failed to do both, and the guy started chasing after me.

I somehow reset the movie, and this time, I just ran out of there before the guy even saw me.

edited 27th May '17 8:07:44 AM by DrNoPuma

1. I was Link in a first-person shooter type thing. At the point where it started, it said something about "survival" mode. It was more like sudden death than anything, because we had a small team, while enemies came from both sides, and everyone's shots were One Hit Kills. Except, if you revived teammates, they get back up with how much health they would have had had that not been "survival". Eventually making it past them, to a mansion, I was given a golden, glittery bow. Some of the glitter came off on my hands, though.

2. This one was an Aladdin / The Lion King crossover, with a third unnamed Evil Poacher. The only bit I remember was that the hunter had captured Mufasa and was riddling him with harmless bullets as torture. Scar was his pet, apparently, because Simba stormed his place in Unstoppable Rage and inflicted an offscreen No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Scar. It just instantly cut to Jafar's death as soon as Simba got the first blow in. Jafar didn't even get to scale himself up, just white gas flew out of his and his staff's eyes and he dropped dead, I think.

Apparently the Tiny Toon Adventures dreams are back:

So this dream started off with Plucky and Hamton having somehow acquired a large speedboat. I was there with them, though I can't remember if I was myself or another Tiny Toons character. For some reason, Plucky was trying to give me one of four pills before we took the boat out for a spin on a large lake. (They were red, blue, green, and purple. I wonder if my subconscious was trying to reference The Matrix.) I took the green one, which turned me into Elmyra Duff. Plucky immediately kicked me into the water, upon which I sank like a rock and drowned.

Then for some reason, the scene went back to Plucky offering me the pills again like that had never happened. I knew not to take the green one, so instead I took the purple one. This time, I transformed into a female purple shark. This time, The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body went into immediate effect and I tried to eat Plucky and Hamton. Plucky freaked out, grabbed Hamton, and sped away on his speedboat. I gave chase, inexplicably managing to keep up with Plucky's boat and get on board. Plucky handed the wheel to Hamton as he tried to fight me off, but Hamton was apparently a terrible driver and wreaked havoc among the other boats and various lakeside homes, leaving a mess that would make Spongebob blush. The chaos ended with Hamton sending the boat flying into a large mansion, causing a massive explosion. Plucky wound up arrested (Hamton wasn't for some reason) and I was pulled off the boat with a crane and put in a police car with him. I think Buster and Babs Bunny (no relation) may have shown up to comment on wha t had just happened at this point, but I don't remember what they said.

The scene, at this point, then faded into me (as my normal self) watching the credits for said episode with some other folks at my grandparents' house. For whatever reason, the credits ended with a weird Klasky-Csupo logo involving EVE flying around before she morphed into the Klasky-Csupo logo, followed by Splaat the infamous face peeking in. I don't really remember what all happened after that beyond playing a Tiny Toons video game at one point.

edited 28th May '17 7:51:30 AM by kablammin45

Why does everyone have cool dreams with characters and fun times in them? My dreams are boring.

I had a ponytail. I didn't want a ponytail. So, I cut it off.

Then I immediately had a My God, What Have I Done? moment, because my hairstylist and I have agreed to document my next transition from ponytail and donation, to pixie cut, back to long hair. (This is a thing IRL, I remembered it in my dream)

So, I spent the rest of the dream writing a letter of apology to my hairstylist, and decorating it with pictures of me being sad.

Some more recent dreams of mine:

04/03/17: Last night I dreamt David Gilmour was at my house and saw a scarf I had knit. He said he liked it. There was more but it's all really confusing. I think the whole band was there really. Including Syd Barrett and Richard Wright.

05/10/17: I dreamt RWBY Volume 5 was airing already. 'Twas pretty sad.

05/21/17: I was in some horror movie that was a mix of Prince of Darkness and Phantasm. I think. The same general tone of those movies. Anyway we were aware of the fourth wall and knew about these creepy subtitles that happened when we went through this tunnel and they really horrified Dream!Me. Also, Josie and Maggie Smith (two sisters who are in a music school orchestra with me and whom I was on a trip to Chicago with at the time) were there and we went out into this field thing and I swore (I almost NEVER swear IRL, or anywhere really). Then I woke up.

Okay, weird (but short) dream last night.

I was in a bigger version of my school for some reason. With nothing to actually do, I went to a random class that had the projector on for some reason, showing a You Tube video with a clickbaity title like "I CHANGED THE LYRICS OF THIS RAP SONG 😂👌 (PRANKING MY FRIEND)", surprisingly made by a teacher. It was pretty boring, and I just decided to get out of the room and switch the lights off. Turns out, flicking the light switch off rewound time, and the past version of the teacher found out about me sneaking in. Surprisingly, no further time paradoxes occurred.

The next "scene" switched to my cousin and I at a cafe in the school, while a K/J-Pop personality was in the school, filming some kind of variety show. A parent made some witty comment about the two of us, comparing us to superheroes or something. I was also browsing on a device, reading about some new Show Within a Show (dream?) called Emojinocle (probably a portmanteau of "emoji" and "monocle" or something) on Buzzfeed, a site I actually never really visit. The posts were an introduction to the show, but it was pretty ambiguous.

Next, it switched to an episode (probably the first) of Emojinocle. The contestants were in some postmodernist mansion with mostly white furniture. The goal was to find emoji, one randomly assigned to each contestant, which were placed in many places all around the house. The focus was this one stereotypical rich snob, who thought she could win for some frivolously ambiguous reason.
A part of the "episode" focused on her finding her emoji, and after a few segments; she found her emoji under a table — a lion one (probably because of her huge pride, I assume?). Turns out, after finding it, they had to face a problem connected to their respective emoji or something, and turns out hers was being trapped in a cage, which was pretty allegorical.

edited 28th May '17 6:25:22 PM by ActualBeatrice

Apparently this was some sort of post-game for the Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire remakes.

In one of the towns, there were 5 dolls. I only remember a Squirtle and Hitmonchan one clearly. Getting four of them lead to a brief, creepy scene where the screen darkens and the player is implied to have an existential crisis in their mind.

Where it gets weird is if you get all five. After something happens, the screen fades out like you fell unconscious. Then it fades back in to reveal you, in first person, were captured by the villainous team's leader (it was Maxie in my dream). He had captured you in order to clone your pokemon, then distribute the clones among his team ^note  I specifically remember the player in the dream had Wigglytuff, Poliwrath and Tyranitar (the first and last in a Premium Ball) at least. The Tyranitar was seen earlier fighting a Magma/Aqua admin's Donphan.

Other than the cloned pokeballs (there were 8 of each, arranged in a 3-by-3 square with the middle missing), Maxie/Archie also had a realistic badger and an Audino with a long furry tail and a shadowy arm. The latter's arms were longer than they were supposed to be as well.

I should copy-paste the ones I've posted in the Trash Heap into here, since I've had some strange ones lately.

A lot happened in my dream last night.

In the first part, we were doing a reenactment of IT (which I only know from watching The Nostalgia Critic's review of the movie.) Each troper participating was assigned the role of one of the people who try to stop It. (But for some reason, nobody was playing It itself...) My character was named "Raft" for some reason. I was either the last or second-last to die. It "killed" me by turning me into pond scum. The last person survived. It, in the form of Pennywise, confronted them and told them he would kill them... just not right now. Then he disappeared and the story ended.

In the next part of my dream, a bunch of tropers came to visit my house. The only ones I remember seeing for sure were Bacon Zorp and President Stalkeyes, although I think I saw Arcada188 and The Great Unknown too.

Next, there was this weird Animaniacs story. It started out as just a book I was reading, but then I was actually in the story, although just as an omniscient viewer instead of a character. The main antagonists were apparently the Three Bears from Looney Tunes, but there were several characters (from different works) and plotlines going on.

The character I decided to focus on was an anthropomorphic elephant who was from Animaniacs (although she was actually just a character made up for this dream). She apparently had a grudge against the Warners, and she wanted to crush them with her feet - not to kill them, just to give them a taste of Amusing Injuries. I felt really bad for her. It didn't help that she was stuck in a train car - apparently, she was a circus elephant. There was another elephant, who was from some other cartoon, in the car who tried unsuccessfully to keep her calm.

At one point, two version of The Joker (the one from Batman: The Animated Series and the one from The Batman) snuck onto the train car for some reason. The first elephant went ballistic and tried to crush them. Although I was hoping she would succeed, the two Jokers managed to escape.

Then I switched to watching a different character - Robert Callaghan, who was on house arrest and had an ankle monitor after the whole Yokai thing. He had a flashback to his arrest, which in this version, happened in his house, where he was apparently keeping the protagonists captive. When the police arrived, he was surprisingly cooperative despite being clearly bitter about his arrest.

My last night's one was terrifying.

It resembled a horror series of some kind. My viewpoint jumped between different people. It was about a large family who lived in house uncannily similar to that of my grandparents. The plot revolved around one of the family's older sons, who had gone insane and gotten his hands on a rifle. He basically showed up out of nowhere every day and forced the family to stay indoors under the threat of being shot. And at night, even more terrifying supernatural events would happen. Some....things that looked like very uncanny people would appear inside the house, past locked doors and everything, disappear just as suddenly, and brutally murder anyone who was alone or sleeping at that time.

Weirdest of all, this was all structured to episodes like an actual series. During each, I was a different person. As one of them (a teen girl), I saw visions very reminiscent of a trailer or something, which showed things getting a lot worse (with the one familiar crazy gunman being replaced with a whole bunch of hooded, indistinguishable, silent cultists all wielding guns, and with the....beings coming to openly attack the house by the numbers.) During the last "episode", the latter happened, and it all turned from the previous night's "everybody stay together at all times" to a last stand scenario which saw us retreat further and further into the house, eventually locking ourselves in a room deep in the basement, after which they seemingly left entirely. But I'd seen that part of the basement before in the vision/trailer: it was a three-room storage area, filled with creepy mannequins and other objects that seemed to change places when no one was looking, lit by strange green light sources resembling some kind of cross between candles and lamps. And this basement was apparently the source of all their troubles.

If I could write horror (and if I didn't already have another dream-inspired work in progress), I would definitely get started on something based on this.

I was snuggling with my supervisor, who is older than me and very happily married. He was in drag (very bad drag, like the Monty Python guys in drag), which somehow made the whole thing okay.

What The Hell, Brain? Why you gotta make things all awkward?!

I just had a horrible nightmare.

So I was in a 7-Eleven, and there are these cops badgering some Indian guy sitting on the floor because they can't figure out his last name, Fargen. Eventually, they finally work it out and start to leave. Once they're out of his way, I walk up to him and ask "How do you not understand 'Fargen'?" After that I sit down next to him and start joking about the situation ("Good thing you don't live in Compton!") when one the cops notices me talking to him and decides that's grounds to put me in handcuffs. Naturally, I start freaking out, and that's when the guy decides shoot me in the elbow. More freaking out, he shoots again, only this time, the bullet bounces off me and hits one of the sodas on display in the background. After that, I scream "I'm sorry!" and wake up.

Definitely the worst dream I've ever had in recent memory.

I keep having a recurring dream of a lost episode of Futurama set around Season 2, where the Brainspawn destroy the universe. Fry, Bender, Farnsworth and sometimes Leela are the only people who manage to escape the apocalypse and have to go back in time to stop this. When they go and the general specifics vary, but this dream occurs so often I honestly expect this was a real episode in mind

This one seemed to be a Batman plot, but without Batman.

The Joker had created a deadly supervirus disguised as a common cold. Its power was described with pseudoscience such as adsorption. Oddly, The Joker himself seemed to flipflop between Affably Evil and incredibly taunting for absolutely no reason.

I was one of the infected, and had at least one infected Kid Sidekick to help me to find and steal the cure.

I don't remember much about my dream last night. The only part I really remember was that I was playing some new Epic Mickey game. I was playing a level that took place in a cave. There was this robot attached to the ceiling of the cave. It didn't really do anything, but I had to destroy it, so I did.

Then I had to climb down the wall of a cliff in the cave while simultaneously fighting a boss - a Spider Tank resembling Pete. It was weird.

In the dream I just woke up from I'm a very young Senior Lieutenant and in command of a frigate. Warships of that size are usually given to a Junior Commander.

I'm escorting about a dozen cargo vessels that don't have FTL drives or artificial gravity. It's a 15 month long Hohmann transfer for them and they can't maneuvre because they don't have the fuel reserves to do it.

My frigate has barely enough space for two weeks of food and water. The reactor, at idle, dumps so much waste heat that it can be mistaken for a very small brown dwarf and will chew through a full fuel load in about four months.

A frigate escorting an in-system convoy is overkill because the 40 anti-ship missiles one carries are enough, when all launched together, to breach a battleship's shield bubble and slightly damage a battleship's armour.

Officially and publicly, it's a training exercise. Unofficially and off the record, there's some highly classified cargo that the Admiral who assigned me to this mission can't tell me about.

I had this wonderful dream last night where a story I wrote was getting a movie adaptation.

Maybe someday...