Author Topic: The dream thread (Read 48588 times)

Cytherea · « **Reply #780 on:** January 14, 2012, 11:52:53 PM »

I've been having a lot of dreams lately that have nothing to do with (but take the visual elements of their settings from) our trip to Maui.

catfishncod · « **Reply #781 on:** January 15, 2012, 06:42:54 AM »

Nothing wrong with dreams set in Maui.

Colesla · « **Reply #782 on:** January 18, 2012, 01:53:13 PM »

At one point during my dream last night, I jumped onto a bomb and cradled it in order to shield bystanders from the blast. The bomb in question was a cartoon styled little round black ball with a lit fuse a couple of inches in length. I did manage to pinch off the spark and thus defuse the bomb. The one and only reason I did this was to impress a girl.

Hippie · « **Reply #783 on:** February 07, 2012, 02:35:52 PM »

Ugh, disturbing.

I woke in a large, unorganized house. I stumbled out of the bedroom and found my brother and father in a living room. They were deep in discussion. A huge TV was on but the sound had been muted. I knew they'd been talking about me. They both glared at me. My brother looked smug.

"How are you going to wear the king's leather?" He taunted me.

I was bleary-eyed from sleep. Confused. Upset. I pretended to ignore them and I stared at the TV screen. There was a legless woman on a talk show. She was crying and pointing at her stumps. She wore an ornate red and gold ... I'm not sure, really. It was sort of a bathing suit and part of a sundress. She had these awful straps on her waist. They were long, gold-studded garters. They sort of flapped around where her legs would be. I'm not sure how I knew this, but I realized that the garters were her flesh. There were made from the skin that had once covered her legs.

*cringe*

I really hate many of my dreams. I hope tonight is different.

stargazer2 · « **Reply #784 on:** March 02, 2012, 09:10:44 PM »

Knight and I were at a craft/antique fair, with one of our cats, Fester. He was content to be carried around, until Knight found a knitted alligator costume sized for a cat, bought it, and put it on him. Thereafter, he wanted to explore on his own, so we let the Fester-gator loose, and he wandered about looking at stuff, hanging with other cats, until it was time to go, and we had a hard time chasing him down to put him in the car.

Since then, I've been calling him the Fester-gator. It really seems to suit his personality, and I now want a gator suit for him.

catfishncod · « **Reply #785 on:** March 20, 2012, 01:47:55 AM »

I dreamt of trying to cast and direct a three-person aerial silk performance set to Pachelbel's Canon in D. This was after discovering someone had built a major zoo in my small hometown in Mississippi, complete with tram and bike paths.

Ummmm.... Hail Eris?

Narcissa · « **Reply #786 on:** March 20, 2012, 04:40:11 AM »

I dreamed that my family gave me money. I dreamed that I won a $50,960 scratch-ticket lottery prize. These were one night after another; I'm no longer sure of the order.

I consider this a bad sign, as dreaming about money means it's been on your mind, and that's never good for someone with no job, assets, stocks, etc.

Bunner_Redux · « **Reply #787 on:** March 20, 2012, 06:11:24 AM »

I don't know what that was all about, brain, but there were lions. Rainbow lions.

toolazytoworktoobusytostop · « **Reply #788 on:** April 11, 2012, 04:57:10 AM »

Two soldiers are in the woods on patrol. Scene cuts to a sniper layed up on a mossy rock between trees. He's preparing to shoot the two soldiers. Which is odd because they're all British army. A gunshot, and he falls from the rock to the ground below with his rifle, his helmet dislodged. He sits up and reaches around to the paintball that has hit him on his left side. He smiles and looks down, picking up his rifle and helmet. He spots something in the undergrowth. He pulls aside the shubbery and finds (what I thought at the time was) a shako from The 95th Rifles (an antecedent to The Royal Green Jackets [now 4th company Rifles - funny how things turn] made famous by TV movie series Sharpe). He smiles again and brushes off the dust from this 200 year old hat, then puts it on and salutes.

Suddenly, I'm dreaming of Sharpe and Harper walking downhill along a snow dusted lane towards a bend in the road, where Captain William Fredrickson awaits, though when he spots them he disapears into the fog. Sharpe and Harper follow him and find themselves lost.

I woke, forgetting the rest of the dream but the the intense feeling Sharpe had come forward in time, and wondering how he would cope with it.

Veneziano · « **Reply #789 on:** April 12, 2012, 03:08:23 PM »

I had a dream that I was cuddling with someone on the forum... I don't even... I've never even met that person.

S*S · « **Reply #790 on:** April 13, 2012, 04:03:25 AM »

*preens* Don't sweat it, I get into people's heads that way. It's a perfectly natural desire for an attractive young lady to have.

Veneziano · « **Reply #791 on:** April 13, 2012, 06:47:37 AM »

Dammit. I don't even want to inflate your ego any more than it already is, but yes it was you.

*SkaKitty* · « **Reply #792 on:** April 13, 2012, 09:23:33 AM »

I had a dream that I was at a house party and I was stabbing people with a pair of scissors, they were squelching and everything when I stabbed people, I was really angry and manic and it felt good to be doing this - but I woke up during this dream and felt so scared that I made myself stay awake for about 10mins so I wouldn't go right back into the dream. Strange.

NoxEquites · « **Reply #793 on:** April 13, 2012, 09:32:14 AM »

If I've appeared in any one here's dreams I can only hope it was as a villain or comic relief.

catfishncod · « **Reply #794 on:** April 13, 2012, 10:59:15 AM »

Is there a story out there about a race that liked the Klingons so much that they basically made themselves an apprentice Empire, with a common Chancellor and the agreement that after a certain time period they would graduate to full star-nationhood and an equal-basis alliance?

Or is my subconscious writing Star Trek fanfic without my knowledge or consent?

machiavelli33 · « **Reply #795 on:** April 14, 2012, 03:49:01 PM »

machiavelli33: it involved an emaciated humanoid creature who's touch corroded your flesh and sloughed it off, like some sort of accelerated necrosis
machiavelli33: the effect was such that even a slight touch would induce it in your flesh and it'd all start deteriorating away slowly, but prolonged contact would make it progress much faster
machiavelli33: instead of rotting and drying and decaying, this was a little more active and wet kind of deterioration
machiavelli33: the kicker is that the parts that it touched are numbed, the same way a mosquito's bite paralyzes the local area so you don't even notice what's happening to you
machiavelli33: that wasn't the scary part
machiavelli33: the scary part was that in the dream I tricked someone I didn't like into letting themselves be touched by the creature
machiavelli33: let themselves be grabbed and caressed by the creature just all over
machiavelli33: convinced him it was some sort of million dollar dare or something stupid like that
machiavelli33: and then I got to watch from not-too-far-away a distance as it started rubbing its hands over him
machiavelli33: and with every movement thin slabs of him would corrode away
machiavelli33: a few layers of skin, over this patch of the body would scrub away, then another few and the guy doesn't even feel it, goes on being excited even though even being touched means he's dead without help
machiavelli33: especially since it started by grabbing his chin like it was inspecting him
machiavelli33: and he goes on being excited about the prize he's going to get
machiavelli33: while in hindsight I'm really impressed by how detailed my apparent visual knowledge of flesh and skin being sloughed off is. blood
machiavelli33: and I just stood there, watched, and occasionally turned my head away so he wouldn't see me wincing
machiavelli33: that was the worst part
machiavelli33: that I'd done that to him

S*S · « **Reply #796 on:** April 16, 2012, 08:03:22 AM »

Whoahhh!

Holy shit, dude. That must have made you sick to your stomach afterwards, but it's kind of amazing.

catfishncod · « **Reply #797 on:** May 06, 2012, 07:19:36 PM »

I keep dreaming about these amazing movies that, while I am dreaming, I swear I have seen. and I tell people all about them in the dream.

Then I wake up and for a mnute I am really excited about renting that movie again.

Then I realize it most likely doesn't exist.

Then I realize, holy $#!t that means I made that awesome movie up in a dream.

Does this happen to anyone else?

.....

This one was an animated romantic comedy fantasy that actually did not make me want to throw up. (Impressive, y'all). In it, a young prince was trying to romantically woo the princess of this land that was themed around heat -- at one point, it was a river of lava that they had the magical ability to swim in at cooler spots without being burned, but at another point there was a waterfall that came off a hot spring. (The trouble is that there are multiple layers here; I don't know how much was artistic discretion mediating between magical storytelling and realism, how much was supposed to be just storytelling in the movie, and how much is me DREAMING ALL THIS AND GETTING IT JUMBLED, Y'ALL.)

Anyway, an early key scene was supposed to be based around this real life place-- a hotel/park (some public/private coopereative bniilt it) in Africa (where this is set). The prince, trying to woo the princess, takes her on a wonderful first date at this place, things are going really well --

-- and then at the end he immediately proposes. Gorgeous spot (a garden nook on the path down to the lower level of the falls, off the main path from the road to the balcony overlooking the top, which doubles as the restauraunt overlook of the hotel), knee down, ring, he got all the details right. EXCEPT IT IS THE FIRST DATE, YOU IDIOT. (To be fair, they are both sheltered and don't really know how this works.)

She's offended, disaster, father upset, blah blah. An hour of hijacks and hijinks ensue, the first part with the leads separated (an animal caravan across the savannah, I think, was in store for the prince), the second half with them thrown back together, so that (of course) they fight at first but then realize they really DO love each other.

I forget what they have to fix at the climax but It involved traveling up that hot spring river / lava river to its source and dealing with a lava-swimming demon or some such. (There is a path along the lava river and partially covering it, with the bricks getting continually hotter as you go. This makes the elders fret as they proceed but of course our leads are not fazed.) This way they come back down said river at the end to come full circle to the site of the disastrous first date and get it right this time. Cue Hollywood Ending!

NOT ONLY DID MY BRAIN MAKE ALL THIS UP, IT ALSO MADE UP THE MARKETING CAMPAIGN FOR THIS MOVIE. I kid you not. The hotel over the falls insisted on having much of the layout be integrated into the plot as the price for letting them use the setting, because they knew it would lead to fan girl-motivated tourism. There were shots of the actresses voicing the characters visiting the place and acting out key scenes in stills that would be used as references for the animation. (Cute, tall African American actors, of course, young for the leads and middle-aged but still pretty hot for the parents and mentors.) it was styled along the same lines as _The Princess and the Frog_ in that while the characters were black it was not a "black movie" but rather meant to appeal to everyone.

.....I swear. Why am I such an awesome creative writer only in my sleep???

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