Dreams!

[clyde]

I am so fascinated with instances where thought-processes are applied in surreal pairings during hypnagogic states.

Thanks for sharing.

[Roswell47]

I dreamt that the late Ray Bradbury was having a Kickstarter where he was going to direct the movie Eyes Wide Shut and that four lucky backers got to meet him, of which I was one. But he didn't look like Ray Bradbury at all. He just looked like a dude in his mid 40's. He kind of looked like a fatter version of Matt LeBlanc.

[Ucantalas]

I had kind of a weird dream last night.

I was at a bus stop, waiting for a bus to show up. I have no idea where I was, I didn't recognize the area around me at all. Then one of my friends from high school, who I haven't seen in ages, walked up and we started talking. The bus arrived, and we sat next to each other and kept talking. We decided he would go get some booze (specifically Fireball whisky) and we would meet up again and have a fun night of drinking and having fun. FUN!

The bus stopped, and I got off. I was now in some big terminal station thing. Even though I was indoors, it was snowing. That's when I noticed, a little ways away, this one girl I had a crush on in college. She was walking away from me, so I started running to her and shouting her name. She just kept walking, and even though I was running she was going faster than I was. She went up a flight of stairs, and I followed, and then she stopped and was waiting for a bus.

I caught up to her at the bus stop while she waited, and thats when I got her attention. She was surprised and happy to see me, and we started talking. It went really well, and I realized the bus she was waiting for was the one I needed to get on, so when it came we both went on and sat next to each other and kept talking.

Then, who should pop up from the seat behind me but my friend from earlier, holding a big bottle of Fireball whisky. He asks if I want some, and I'm about to say yes, when I look over at my crush and she's just glaring at me. So I decline. And then my friend just says, "Oh, I see how it is." and disappears. Like, vanishes in a puff of smoke. He's completely gone from the bus. 

I go back to talking to my crush, and she wants to go to my place, so I say okay. And that's when I realize I have no idea where I am, or where my place is. I have never been in whatever city this is in my life, and I don't even know where this bus is going. So I keep talking with her, while staring out the windows, trying to figure out where to go.

And then I woke up. This dream kind of bothers me simply because the girl in it is someone I haven't thought about in like... a year. I thought she was completely gone from my mind, but then something like this happens. Ugh  

[Twig]

So I was playing Dota 2, just now, and a guy on my team had the name "SJR". I was trying to think, what could it stand for? First name that came to mind was "Stephen", at which point I remembered...

 

A common theme in my dreams for a few days now has been people calling me Stephen. My name is not Stephen.

 

WHAT, BRAIN. WHAT.

[Ucantalas]

Admit it, you're a Stephen trapped in a Twig's body. 

[SecretAsianMan]

Had a really disturbing dream last night.  It took place in The Last of Us, which I haven't played so my brain made up a lot of stuff.  It started off with Joel and Ellie surviving in an abandoned department store.  After fending off various zombie attacks, the game became multiplayer.  It was sort of like capture the flag, except instead of a flag, the goal was to...

capture and rape Ellie.

 Thankfully, that never actually happened in the dream, but the sheer fact that I knew that was the objective and I was still playing the game really REALLY bothers me.

[Merus]

Oh, I haven't shared a traumatic dream I had recently.

 

I dreamt the doctors told me there'd been complications. My organs were failing one by one, and there was nothing they could do other than alleviate the pain.

 

I was keeping a list of what faculties I still had and crossing them off the list as they went, and they moved me from the ward into a small, quiet room that was clearly drawn from my memories of school sick bays. I could hear a loud-mouthed colleague from work outside saying something that was slightly unkind, and calling out 'I'm not dead yet'. I tried to move my hand, and it was interpreted as me calling in my mum, and my family shuffled in as my voice failed, then my sense of touch, then my hearing, then my sight, then my thoughts.

 

And then I woke up.

[jeremywc]

...and calling out 'I'm not dead yet'...

 

<Insert obligatory Monty Python quote here>

[tegan]

I had a dream last night that I was a heckler in the audience for a standup comedian who was complaining about the way faces look in anime.

 

I have no idea what sequence of events could possibly have led to me having this dream.

[Twig]

DREAMS.

 

1) We were all very thoroughly discussing the merits of a furry porn right here on these very forums. Um. Um.

 

2) Valve announced a Steam Porn Controller, with some weird wording I guess, because they followed that up with a clarification announcement that the controller would, in fact, NOT cause women to spontaneously grow a penis, and that women could masturbate without penises just fine, thank you very much. UM. UM.

 

3) I was working at some kind of space bounty hunter check-in stand. Every bounty hunter who came in dropped off one (1) dead body, except for one particularly badass bounty hunter who dropped off like a dozen live and a dozen dead bounties. Also all of the bounty hunters were giants compared to all the people working at the check-in stand, of which there were two. Me and my boss. My boss was a disgruntled old crotchety man, OF COURSE.

 

4) My friends (various male friends from various points of my life) were all going out after lunch to some sort of Thing. I followed silently, and they didn't tell me to stop, so we all went as a group to a... hospital, where a mutual friend named Evan was dying. Except we got to the room, all four of us, the dying man had a pigeon just sitting on his forehead, cooing. It jumped down to his chest and started eating corn out of his belly button. The nurse was yelling at the two women sitting on either side of Evan's bed, telling them to get this obviously NOT dying man the fuck out of her hospital. They consoled the nurse, saying that, UH, YES, HE IS DYING. Then Evan moved. (Oh, he was supposed to be comatose, as well, I think.) His head fell to the side and he grumbled a bit. One of the women by the bed just sighed, and looked over at the four of us who had just walked in. I didn't recognize her, or the other woman, or the nurse. Anyway, she looked over at us and said, "Huh, I didn't expect all your friends to be so cute," obviously talking to Evan. I turned around, and two of my friends were gone. The only one left was someone I didn't actually know, he had big ears that were purple, and a VERY round head. We shrugged at each other and walked out. IMPORTANT FACT: The man lying in the bed, whose name was Evan in my dream - his name in real life is Tristan.

 

What a weird night.

[SecretAsianMan]

Today I dreamt that I was asleep.  I think I'm really tired.

[tegan]

1) We were all very thoroughly discussing the merits of a furry porn right here on these very forums. Um. Um.

 

You know, I know a few people who make furry porn as either a side gig or a main source of income and they're actually pretty cool.

[Twig]

Is this an effort to make my dream come true, tegan?

[SecretAsianMan]

Pittsburgh is strangely home to a huge furry convention.  For the right price I could be persuaded to crash the next one.  I'm going to need a LOT of motivation though.

 

Many furries in this picture (nothing dirty though).  You have been warned.

 

 

[tegan]

Is this an effort to make my dream come true, tegan?

 

yup

[Twig]

I appreciate it, but I'd've preferred a different dream. ):

[Patrick R]

In my dream last night I was obsessed with how weird it was that Arnold Schwarzeneggar was once the mayor of LA (which he wasn't) so I went on Wikipedia to find a list of all of LA's mayors and Dave Thomas of SCTV was one and I thought "Yeah, I can see that."

[SecretAsianMan]

I had a dream today that Idle Thumbs did some kind of tour where they went around to different cities and recorded podcasts in front of a live audience.  It was similar to stand-up comic group tours where they would come out one at a time, do a bit, then get together at the end for reader mail.  It was the best thing and I want it in the worst way.

[Brannigan]

Had a dream where I claimed I was working on my masterpiece but it was a crude 5yr olds drawing of sailor moon... that's my art major related nightmare apparently.

[Twig]

Hahaha I love the image I have in my head of that dream. Glorious!

[clyde]

Last night I dreamt that I figured out a way to play Spelunky in first-person. It basically looked like Minecraft with slightly more detail. On the tip of the arrow-traps there was a barely raised area in the stone for bridge of the snout. The snakes were still round and smooth looking. One thing I thought was very noticeable was that there was water running down below in a ravine. The ravine seemed to be the thing that encouraged two-dimensional play.

[melmer]

This morning i dreamt i bought some green face paint off the internet for Halloween which i had to go collect from the shop. The shop was my infant school where i was greeted by celebrity chef Tom Kerridge who directed me to a parking space on the grass and then meticulously made me readjust my parking until i was in the space perfectly.

 

When i told him i was here to collect the green face paint he continued to show me around his Halloween costume shop pulling out all the green outfits to which i was to polite to tell him i just wanted the face paint. When i final asked him for the face paint he showed me to an oven where it was bubbling away in a pot (he is a celebrity chef after all)

 

This is clearly a reference to a ding dong i had at work yesterday where a couple of months ago someone asked me to re-designer a certificate for them, it had a watercolour image of a powerboat on it, to which i replied i'm not an illustrator and they said "just stick same waves on it or something". I was too polite to tell them then that i couldn't do it, so two months later they ask me about it to which i reply "i'm not an illustrator" and they got all shitty with me. People just assume i can do fucking everything at this place, i'm not even employed in a design capacity.

[SecretAsianMan]

A few months ago I had a dream that I was playing a Spider-man game and fighting the X-men.  Just before the dream ended, I saved the game and turned off the Xbox and TV.  I wondered if I would ever get back to that dream game.  Well yesterday I did.  I don't remember turning on the system and loading the save, but I'm pretty sure it was the same game.  This time, instead of the X-men, I was fighting the Avengers.  Specifically, the movie version of the Avengers.  Just as I finished beating up Sam Jackson, I turned off the Xbox without saving.  Guess I'm done with that game.

[Roswell47]

I dreamt that I was at a Magic The Gathering tournament and Jonathan Blow was there, showing off The Witness but in my dream it was a turn based strategy game like Civ. It still had really high fidelity first person view stuff though and he went on about how meaningful it was for the look of the game that there were some bigger stones casting shadows on this gravel path. My brain is weird.

[Gormongous]

That reminds me! For years after playing Baldur's Gate II, I had dreams that random but actual games coming out were secretly Baldur's Gate III. I remember Praetorians, the 2003 Rome-themed RTS, being the most egregious of these falsehoods.