Let's talk about dreams.

[Angrist]

The night before last I dreamed that I got into a toy store and they had original Jurassic Park dinosaur action figures. I was so excited, because I didn't have some of them yet and they weren't expensive. There were a few I already had an I wasn't sure if I should buy them.

The weird thing is... I dream the same thing so often. This must be the 10th time that I remember, the first dreams go back maybe 10 years.
And this time I only remembered because something made me think of Jurassic Park. So who knows how often I dream about finding Jurassic Park toys and I don't remember it??

And Typhoid, that sounds like a cool dream.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Angrist

And Typhoid, that sounds like a cool dream.

No, my dreams all suck - because I actually can actually feel the pain that I'm feeling in the dream, and when I wake up, I vividly remember how it felt, though never experiencing it. Like I was looking back on a memory, that type of thing.

I've been shot in my dreams before, and that was the scariest thing ever - because I remember how it felt, I could taste iron, the hollow yet numb feeling in the place I got shot, my vision faded slowly, my hearing deafened out, and my heartbeat got louder and louder. Then again I was probably just having a seizure.

[Angrist]

That's so weird... and scary.
Has it ever inspired you to write stories?

I like those things where you're almost asleep and you dream that you fall. You wake up kicking vividly. Your body thinks the stuff in your mind is real...

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

Hmm, looking over my dreams. Here's the first one from 2009:



All narrated by Morgan Freeman of course.

You should start a dream blog. I've debated taking notes on my dreams but I'm an apathetic son of a bitch. Usually if I don't take mental note or write it down I forget my dream within 5 minutes of being awake. I'd read if you posted a dream blog.

I debated posting this in Ric's thread but I think this is more appropriate. Has anyone just drifted off into sleep and had a dream where they are falling into ice or stepping in a hole, and then you actually kick your leg like you are falling and wake up? I don't know what this particular phenomenon is because when you fall asleep your body turns off your muscle control so you don't move/hurt yourself in sleep. But it only happens when I fall into a dream right when I'm falling asleep.

[Angrist]

Yeah I have that sometimes (I think I posted about it in the last few days?). It's weird how the mind works...

A while ago I knew that I was in that stage between being awake and sleeping. I dreamed/thought that somebody hit me in the face. I shook awake from the hit. I was amazed that my body reacted to that even though I realized that it was just my thoughts.

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

You should start a dream blog. I've debated taking notes on my dreams but I'm an apathetic son of a bitch. Usually if I don't take mental note or write it down I forget my dream within 5 minutes of being awake. I'd read if you posted a dream blog.

Hmm. Maybe. A lot of mine are so personal they'd be boring to most everyone else. Also I remember my dreams so well that I'll put off getting out of bed just so they become hazier and I'll only have to write down the gist of the dream. If I remember something I feel like I'm forced to write it down, and some of these go on and on and on.

Here's a short one from last night with everyone's favorite penguin:

Originally Posted by 2009-07-24

I'm with With Penguin at some comic book sale, but in order to get the books as cheap as we're getting them we had to enter a portal into another dimension into a Spanish classroom full of young kids and take a Spanish test. I didn't even attempt to take the test. Just drew a picture of a dragon on it. The teacher was nice enough about it. I told some of the students about how to get comics too. We leave back through the portal in the wall. Scene shift and I get a long flimsy MetroCard from my dad. I can't stick it in my pocket without crumpling though. I keep just missing the bus home.

[Angrist]

Great dream.

Tonight I had one of those personal boring ones.

I saw my ex in a very weird room. It was some kind of ballroom with seats near the wall, but the whole room was changing shape all the time. Round, oval, square, it almost was like a amusement park attraction. A couple of ballet dancers in the middle, but at the same time it was a conference with speeches etc.
I was there with a girl who wasn't my gf (and I didn't want her to be), we entered the room late. Everybody saw us. After a while I noticed my ex's family, and then my ex. She had matured (I think she's 28 now).

Then I continued to dream about fighting a big dragon in a World of Warcraft dungeon. I was the only one of the raid who wasn't afraid to fight it, which meant I didn't get any healing, and I had to run away all the time.

[Angrist]

Ok I had 3 quite weird dreams, one is worth sharing because it would be a nice script for a movie.

I was in prison for a murder I did not commit. It wasn't an ordinary prison though, which was shown by the fact that they locked me up in the room of the guy they thought I had killed. It was an old fashioned living room with a bed, chair, desk. It has his music, his books, his pictures on the wall.
It started to freak me out. It was haunting me. And I hadn't even committed the murder!
But I knew who had. He was living in the same prison, close to my cell/room. Sometimes I saw him when I looked out of the small window. Nobody believed me of course. I had a female shrink visit me. In the beginning of my time I had made fun of her, pretending to be mad/emotional. Now that I was really starting to lose it, she didn't believe me. At first. Until she started to listen tot he sick music the murdered guy had on tapes. It even freaked her out. She realized that wasn't healthy.
Then it got even weirder. In my mind I could go back to when I was a child, when the room wasn't a prison yet. I could leave the room and search for the real killer. There were more weird things I could do, which usually involved leaving the room, maybe even seeing the victim when he was still alive (don't remember exactly).
Then when the shrink was visiting me, I suddenly saw my mind-selfs leave the room. I saw them, as other versions of me, walking about. Me in different timelines. The shrink of course didn't see them. That really really scared me. I wondered if I was ever going to solve it.

I don't remember how it ended. I think I woke up and thought about how it felt like movies as Donnie Darko, Identity, The Butterfly Effect, The Jacket. I think 'rubber reality' is the correct term.

[Teuthida]

I hit a new low. I had a dream about writing a PM on GameTavern. (Twas asking KG for rap recommendations.) If there was ever a sign I spend too much time here, that's it.

[Typhoid]

I've had terrible insomnia for the past few weeks, can't really sleep until 8am, and when I do sleep, my dreams are amazingly disturbing and overly stressful.

The dream I had last night was me and Dylflon's brother were in my basement watching TV, there was an annoyingly tinged light on, and 8 feet of snow outside. We couldn't leave the room because there was a zombie infestation and the local militia was going around shooting machine guns indiscriminately. Then it morphed into my hockey team hanging out in my basement, and I broke a skate. Zombie attack still loomed.

God damn zombies.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

I hit a new low. I had a dream about writing a PM on GameTavern. (Twas asking KG for rap recommendations.) If there was ever a sign I spend too much time here, that's it.

Haha, perhaps you do spend too much time here...but on the other hand that is a very flattering dream.

I've had some weird dreams the past few days, but I lost one of them because I didn't write it down. The other one involved a tower that I had to climb and it was quite vivid....I've decided I want to start documenting my dreams and my childhood memories. I get a lot of random childhood memories that just come and go and I forget about them. I figure I should document them while I can find them.

The question is do I want to document this in a real notebook or on my google blogspot?

[Angrist]

I dreamed I was on some kind of date program. Basically it was just about forming groups of young people who got to spend time together. But some of them took it very seriously, talking about how I wasn't to come close to a certain girl because she had their interest. And one guy told me how lucky I was that I was grouped with a particular girl (and not with 2 others).
I just wanted to have a good time and get to know all of those people.

KG: notebook first, blog if it's good enough.

[Angrist]

I dreamed Nintendo announced a new Metroid game, which came with some kind of Virtual Reality accessoire. You could make your own games, play funny mini-games... And it came packed with Metroid Prime Trilogy.

In other news: there's a rumor that Nintendo will show a Zelda trailer at the Nintendo Business Media Summit early October. I don't think I dreamed that...

[KillerGremlin]

I've been having recurring Elevator dreams.

10/9/09
I had a dream where I was trying to get to the 10th floor of a building. I stepped into the buildings elevator, along with several girls. As we began to ascend in the elevator you could see all the floors as we passed. The floors were much larger than one story, in fact several stories seperated each floor. The elevator also moved much faster than it should have been. As we approached the 10th floor something happened and the elevator began to fall down suddenly. As the elevator began to fall I could see each floor pass by, only faster and faster. Then the elevator began to move horizontally as well as vertically. At this point someone inside the elevator pushes the "stop" button and we get stopped on a library floor. We hurry to exit the elevator where a black man informs us that we were lucky to get out of there. That is all I can recall, and then my alarm goes off.

My dream journal has made me notice several things. One, it is difficult to recall dreams unless I write them down right away. This is problematic for several reasons, the biggest being that I am a lazy ass. The second reason is that I notice I often have several dreams in a night, especially if I wake up in the middle of the night. Do I want to role out of bed at 3am to type up a dream? Maybe I need a paper journal and a nightlight.

The second thing I have noticed is that I cannot jot down my thoughts for shit after waking up. My just-woken cognition and ability to punctuate is on par with my drunk self. This is problematic as I review my journal entries. I'm not cleaning them up or editing them for sake of honesty and good academic practice, but still...

[Angrist]

All you need is pen and paper. No light. Just write down some words of the dream, and you'll remember 90% of it when you wake up.

At least that's my experience.