Dreams

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

Last night I had a dream that my friend from overseas would come visit me at school. I had no idea she was coming, and today she surprised me. I froze and freaked out for a couple of seconds

[Sunbird she/her]

Last night I had a super weird dream.

I imagined that my grandpa (whom I live with) had brought home this ginormous land crustacean like you would bring home a stray kitten. The thing was like the size of a lion, but lower to the ground like a crocodile. It had sort of a lobster-esque tail, but I don't recall much else about its appearance. It acted really friendly and eager for our attention, though, like a dog, even using a lot of the same body language as a happy dog. I kept trying to think of what kind of creature to call it, and it reminded me a lot of a chull, but even my dream self knew its appearance didn't match the chull drawings in the Stormlight books.

Later my grandpa and I went over to a friend's apartment for a visit, only to find a grizzly bear in their living room. I think this is a result of me reading this article about cassowaries breaking into people's houses in Australia.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Mate, you got some kangaroos loose in your backyard 

[Sunbird she/her]

@Darkness Ascendant Is that Australian for "you're a little bit crazy"? Because yes, I am a bit crazy.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Indeed it is @Sunbird, but it's a bit of a stereotypical way of saying it. (we never say it day to day)

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

So, yesterday I woke up early for fasting and stayed up reading Quran at the mosque. So I take a nap, when I come home.

And I have my first remembered lucid dream.

I'm walking with my dad from my university. The area does not exist in real life. Also, the bus stops on campus, so this makes no sense. And my twin brother is not there. We pass by a St. Patrick's Day sign. My dad asks me if I have seen many St. Patrick's Day signs on campus. I reply no. He says that he was with me just yesterday and there were some. I'm like, Yeah you're right. I must have not payed attention but surely there were no new signs.

Then I realize that there's something wrong with this. I realize that I'm in a dream. I try to open my eye and with some difficulty, I open one eye(like opening a cap that is submerged in honey). I see brightness and quickly shut my eye to continue my dream. So I'm about to open a portal and get to Roshar but I feel guilty about leaving my dad. But this woman behind me grabs my hand. My point of view is now showing my character, and as my character turns around, I see that it is a not-so-pretty woman. So I make it look forward and turn back again. This time, it's another variation of the first woman. I try again and now it's a pale black-haired boy. I'm fine with this but decide to make hem more tan by using the turnaround trick.

Now, for some reason, I figure that my dad will show up everywhere I turn. I try to run around a large wall and (fall or stop or something). I know that I'll see my dad in the distance if I look up. But I don't look up and I sense an evil presence. I worry that this may be the demons of sleep paralysis. And I hear voices from the real world.

So my dad comes into the bedroom to wake me up. I get out of bed. It's a dream. An aggressor comes between me and my dad. The dream turns to a low-qual frame of a basic game. Bad stick figure depiction of the scene. Two options: Duck low, Strike high. I notice another 2 options: Hit high, Hit low. I intuitively realize that Strike high means that I will leap in the air and hit the aggressor with a weapon (from thin air, apparently). I choose this option (no clicking or mouse, just mind control). My view becomes normal. I leap in the air and attack with a weapon from nowhere. Side view of me hitting him and still flying in the air and reaching my dad, accidentally hitting him too. (Oops. >.<) I realize he's dying and feel guilty for not being sad for him even though he's a dream.

I drag him out of the bedroom. The place I am in is not my house in real life, but is my house in my dream. I tell my mom that I'm taking my dad to the hospital and try not to let her know much. She calls me a "Zaahir." (I think my brain was trying to think of "jaahil" (ignorant/fool) idk). As I go near the door, I look to the side through a large glass door. I see a wooden structure attached to the house with goats in it. And right by the window, there are also kittens. I'm like, "I gotta summon a kitten later on." So when I open the front door, a black cat appears. My mom says that it is a sign that I am a Zaahir." The cat talks to me.

And I forget about my dad and go on on an adventure with a talking cat. I realize that the black kitten I saw earlier must be his child. And now I'm with a talking cat and a kitten. He says he was muskering up the litter (I guess messing up the breeding lines because no one wants a black cat idk). So I make a pun about making some muskarapana (clownery/jesting). The joke apparently goes above their heads and they ignore it.

They then cross the street right before a car crosses. I try to cross and the car swerves to avoid me, almost crashing into another car. I smile and wave and the driver stupidly smiles and waves back. I cross the street and have to explain to the cats that I was just messing around with the driver and definitely not trying to get myself killed.

And then I wake up.

I've air assassinated an enemy and befriended a talking cat.

So I'll be on the look out for black cats, now.

 

Sorry for the long post. Here's a potato. (Oh god, it's spiked!)

[Delightful]

On 28 August 2016 at 8:18 PM, Darkness Ascendant said:

Mate, you got some kangaroos loose in your backyard 

I haven't heard this one before but it's great. 

I keep finding myself lucid dreaming. And then I try fly and it doesn't always work. It does make potential nightmares less scary though. 

[Mestiv he/him]

6 hours ago, Eccentric Hero said:

 So I'll be on the look out for black cats, now.

You lookin' for me?

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

6 hours ago, Delightful said:

I haven't heard this one before but it's great. 

I keep finding myself lucid dreaming. And then I try fly and it doesn't always work. It does make potential nightmares less scary though. 

Just go around the corner, where you will find a shardpool. Use it to go to the cognitive realm. Travel to another shardpool (Just walk into the sky until you another planet) and then go back to the physical realm. (Make yourself believe that it will work. Because, around every corner... there's always another secret.)

5 hours ago, Mestiv said:

You lookin' for me?

Is that you? I now realize that you were wearing too muck makeup in your profile picture.

The kitten was really tiny. I think it came from Google Images and my mind photoshopped the color.

Also, I remembered that my neighbors have a black cat that we've caught visiting our house a few times. (It probably dreams of eating our animals. :o)

[Delightful]

5 minutes ago, Eccentric Hero said:

Just go around the corner, where you will find a shardpool. Use it to go to the cognitive realm. Travel to another shardpool (Just walk into the sky until you another planet) and then go back to the physical realm. (Make yourself believe that it will work. Because, around every corner... there's always another secret.)

Is that you? I now realize that you were wearing too muck makeup in your profile picture.

The kitten was really tiny. I think it came from Google Images and my mind photoshopped the color.

Also, I remembered that my neighbors have a black cat that we've caught visiting our house a few times. (It probably dreams of eating our animals. :o)

Y'know, I might actually try that. I've managed to try fly, and reason myself out of "This can't kill me, I'm dreaming, I can just focus on something else in the scene and I'll be fine."

Also part of my dream involved a gorgeous waterfall so that was a plus.

[Mistrunner]

I dreamed I was chasing obnoxiously happy people down a romantic beach with a snow shovel.

 

I suppose that says something about my subconscious.

[marsoupial they/them]

1 minute ago, Mistrunner said:

I dreamed I was chasing obnoxiously happy people down a romantic beach with a snow shovel.

 

I suppose that says something about my subconscious.

I feel like we'd get along famously, Misty.

[Mistrunner]

4 minutes ago, bleeder said:

I feel like we'd get along famously, Misty.

Glad to know I'm not alone in my immense dislike of overly cheerful people.

(This exchange reminded me of a Pearls Before Swine strip, but I couldn't find it, so have this one that is similarly cynical.)

Spoiler

 

[Oversleep]

13 minutes ago, Mistrunner said:

I dreamed I was chasing obnoxiously happy people down a romantic beach with a snow shovel.

Oh Almighty, I just imagined that!

[Kaymyth she/her]

14 hours ago, Mistrunner said:

I dreamed I was chasing obnoxiously happy people down a romantic beach with a snow shovel.

 

I suppose that says something about my subconscious.

Note to self:  James and I should avoid rampaging Mistrunners on beaches.

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

23 hours ago, Mistrunner said:

I dreamed I was chasing obnoxiously happy people down a romantic beach with a snow shovel.

 

I suppose that says something about my subconscious.

Maybe my subconscious is different from yours.

Well, I recently had a dream within a dream. (It was like a vision that showed exactly what would happen in the dream.) When I get up, the vision isn't that well in my memory, but I remember the important part. Then I got up in a hotel bed, and then went downstairs with some people including my brother (He's the only person that I remember from the dream; the rest were side characters.) We go up to a group of disgruntled workers who have many donut boxes and ask for a box. They refuse and we dishearteningly go away to sit at a table, donutless. As I'm turning, I stop and tell them to have a good day. They're like, "k, whatever." I feel like they are really in a bad mood and need to have a good day (idk why). So then I grab one of them and say, "No, really. Have a good day." They all get really excited and happy and give me a donut box. I humbly refuse, saying that I understand that they don't want to give it. They insist, so I take it and thank them. I go around the corner to the table and everyone is happy that we actually do get donuts. Once I bring the donuts to the table, I wake up.

And when the things are happening, I'm doing it out of my goodwill, and realizing that it coincides with my vision. The donuts were a plus. Also, I think two of the employees were Key and Peele.

So guys, try to make the world a better place and you just might get a whole box of donuts you shall be rewarded justly.

[marsoupial they/them]

11 minutes ago, Eccentric Hero said:

Maybe my subconscious is different from yours.

Well, I recently had a dream within a dream. (It was like a vision that showed exactly what would happen in the dream.) When I get up, the vision isn't that well in my memory, but I remember the important part. Then I got up in a hotel bed, and then went downstairs with some people including my brother (He's the only person that I remember from the dream; the rest were side characters.) We go up to a group of disgruntled workers who have many donut boxes and ask for a box. They refuse and we dishearteningly go away to sit at a table, donutless. As I'm turning, I stop and tell them to have a good day. They're like, "k, whatever." I feel like they are really in a bad mood and need to have a good day (idk why). So then I grab one of them and say, "No, really. Have a good day." They all get really excited and happy and give me a donut box. I humbly refuse, saying that I understand that they don't want to give it. They insist, so I take it and thank them. I go around the corner to the table and everyone is happy that we actually do get donuts. Once I bring the donuts to the table, I wake up.

And when the things are happening, I'm doing it out of my goodwill, and realizing that it coincides with my vision. The donuts were a plus. Also, I think two of the employees were Key and Peele.

So guys, try to make the world a better place and you just might get a whole box of donuts you shall be rewarded justly.

Interesting...

[Eccentric Hero he/him]

Just now, bleeder said:

Interesting...

Don't think too highly of me. My other favorite dream is of me knocking out my twin in one punch.

[ThirdGen]

A film I worked on got sold to a TV network, and I got a $200,000 check for it.  I helped my friends out, saved some of the money, used other chunks of it for social good... then I woke up and was sad about that not happening.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

2 minutes ago, ThirdGen said:

A film I worked on got sold to a TV network, and I got a $200,000 check for it.  I helped my friends out, saved some of the money, used other chunks of it for social good... then I woke up and was sad about that not happening.

Those dreams are the worst. 

[ParadoxicalZen he/him]

Has anyone ever dreamed from another person's perspective, as if they were that person? I've had two dreams of late where this has happened

[Elsecaller3414 she/her]

14 hours ago, AnanasSpren said:

Has anyone ever dreamed from another person's perspective, as if they were that person? I've had two dreams of late where this has happened

This happens to me all the time; I also sometimes have dreams where I am someone else and I offend myself (as in my real self)...

[ParadoxicalZen he/him]

 

3 minutes ago, Elsecaller3414 said:

This happens to me all the time; I also sometimes have dreams where I am someone else and I offend myself (as in my real self)...

Its really strange; the first one I was merely an observer then the next moment I was in the person I was I watching but still aware of being myself.

The second one was it a bit blurrier as it was like I was both myself and the other person at the same time and was hard to tell where one started and the other finished

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I dreamed about Twimom last night. I don't remember many of the details, but I remember that in the dream, I had screwed up something major, and she kept rubbing it in my face. I think it was Thanksgiving, but nobody was eating around the table. Or maybe everyone else was while I was in the kitchen, eating off a paper plate while Twimom told me exactly how my mysterious mistake would ruin both my life and hers. She was pretty smug about it, too. 

[Elsecaller3414 she/her]

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you are sneaking food and you try to eat it but can't? For me, I was trying to eat a banana behind a rocking chair and couldn't because the banana kept slipping or something. Weirdest dream I have had in a while.