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[Lightningfalcon]

In the first part of my dream I was just in my house, working on my online latin class.  Then I apparently heard some prophecy about a group of people who would rob be in a few minutes, and I quickly started preparing.  The only thing I can remember from that part was jumping into some sports car they had, and switching to a first person view of one of the robbers.  He had some inner monologue about things going to plan, and how he cold easily hold a car at bay.  I stepped on the gas, and rammed the car into the robber.  He simply held out his hand and stopped the car, and eventually started pushing it back.  Then there was some scene about them killing my grandparents or something.
Next I realized that it was 11 p.m, and my parents were making me go to bed.  I realized I didn't have my Latin done still, but I had apparently told them that I had finished it already, so I had to sneak onto my laptop to do it.  But I kept getting interrupted by needing to do task that would conceal me from my parents while doing my work, which eventually escalated into driving on the road at the middle of night, turning on cruise control and just doing my work while in the passenger seat.  The dream then morphed into me practicing for the drivers license exam/test.  I apparently had no concept of safety, and I was driving around town at the maximum speed of the car, completely ignoring the complaints of my parents.  While in town I witnessed a battle between a group of Sarranid Marmlukes and Swadian knights, and after the battle was over hired them to hunt down the robbers who attacked my house.   Then somehow I switched to a Just Cause 2 style attack on an airport, where planes were kept on their side during takeoff. 

[SnugglePie]

...I had been kidnapped by North Korean infiltrators, and taken...somewhere. ... I heard the words 32 and 0...

Yes, I'm aware that I'm quoting a year old post. The reason is that I had a dream some time ago. I was tied to a chair in the middle of a dark room with no windows. The room was very small, roughly 1.5x1.5 meters with a ceiling 2 meters high. There was a lightbulb above my head. It emitted faint yellow light that was barely enough to allow me to see where the room's walls were. There was a door in front of me and a man standing between me and the door. I couldn't see him clearly because of how dark it was. Somehow I knew he was a Russian or North Korean military officer. There was an armed soldier to my left and another one to my right. The officer was asking me some questions that I don't remember. I didn't know the answers so the officer wasn't very pleased.
In the next part of the dream, I was tied to the same chair in the same room. The soldiers and the officer were there as well. The lightbulb was shining more brightly than before so I was able to see their faces. I knew several days had passed. I was sure my captors were North Korean at that point. There was another man in front and to the right of me. He was a young man wearing a black suit. He seemed to be European. He was trying to convince the officer that it would be for the best if they set me free as I was of no use to North Korea and other countries would be happy to start a war. They were talking in Korean and I had no trouble understanding until I realized I didn't speak Korean. I heard the negotiator say number 32, his words turned into gibberish right after that and he ended his speech with number 0. Then the dream ended.


Well, I guess I can add two more dreams while I'm at it.

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Years ago, I used to have a computer made of very old parts, leftovers from upgrading my main computer. I installed Win 95 on it and used it to play old games, X-Com: Apocalypse was one of them. At that time I was a student at what roughly equals the first or second year of high school.
The dream started with me sitting in my room playing X-Com. Instead of Mega-Primus, aliens were attacking a town where my high school was. The main X-Com base was rather predictably in the school. I spent some time purchasing equipment and vehicles, assigning equipment to soldiers, ordering costruction of various labs and storage rooms and so on, the usual stuff you do when you start a new game. After a while, I recieved a message that there were some aliens sighted in a building in the town. I decided to send a squad there in a Valkyrie aircraft to get rid of the problem.
Suddenly I wasn't playing the game but I was one of the soldiers in the Valkyrie. The squad naturally consisted of my classmates. We were all wearing huge power armour. I remember I wondered why the armour looked like those used by marines in Starcraft and not like the one used by Space marines in Warhammer 40k. We were armed with huge laser rifles. They were at least two meters long and too heavy to be used by anyone not wearing a power armour. When we landed and got out of the Valkyrie, we received a transmission that the bulding had been evacuated and the local police were waiting outside in case any aliens tried to flee. To my surprise, while it was a small single storey building on the outside, it was a complex of many buildings that covered the area the size of the whole town on the inside (Not big, the town has approximately four thousand inhabitants.). It was apparently some mix of a zoo, a botanical garden and a museum.
We secured a large room near the middle of the complex and decided to make it a safe place to fall back to if fighting went badly. We also carried supplies there and medics appeared out of nowhere ready to take care of anyone who would be wounded in the near future. We split into a number of teams consisting of four or five people. Few teams departed and just as my team was about to depart too, I was approached by one of my classmates. He told me a member of his team had a problem with his rifle so I used my radio to tell the other teams they should return back to the large room and I went with him to see what the problem was.
That team member was another classmate. He was obviously pissed off. He yelled at me that the rifles didn't work and it was obviously my fault because I was the one who purchased them. I felt nervous as he was holding his rifle in one hand and it looked like he wanted to hit me with it. I started to argue that I got a large discount thanks to the number of rifles purchased, that it was his fault his rifle didn't work because it was every soldier's responsibility to take care of their own equipment and that the rest of the rifles surely worked. I decided too demonstrate my rifle was able to puch a fist sized hole in a steel wall. My rifle clearly didn't work as advertized. It merely projected a red dot like a laser pointer does and thick blue foam erupted from where I aimed my rifle at. The wall was covered with foam but suffered no damage. I tried rifles belonging to several other classmates, all with the same result. More people were yelling at me at that point and I tried to defend myself by claiming the rifles should still work against living creatures. I lay down and carefully aimed at a rat that was the rifle's length away from me and clearly didn't give a damn about anything. The foam was brown this time but the rat was still alive and well.
Realizing we were pretty much defenceless I ordered everyone to go back to the Valkyrie as quickly as possible when a report of a contact with aliens came in. One team didn't return to the large room when I told them to earlier. The point of view started to alternate between me and that team. They were in a dark narrow hallway. Lights in the hallway were out because the aliens were draining energy from them. I told them their weapons were useless and ordered them to retreat immediately. They didn't believe me and decided to chase an alien they saw. They soon got themselves into trouble and were surprised their rifles didn't work. After a while I shouted: "Grenades! Grenades still work!" into my radio. They threw their grenades at the aliens and started to run towards the Valkyrie. I collected grenades from the rest of the squad and went to help. I ran into the team in the previously mentioned hallway. They were chased by aliens. I let the team run in front of me and I kept tossing grenades behind me while running to the Valkyrie. Finally I got there and the dream started over from the beggining with minor variations like a slightly different choice of words at times. When I played Apocalypse again one or two years later I had the same dream and it also repeated so I had this dream four times in total.

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I played Max Payne 2 nearly a year ago and I had the first dream about it last week. I knew we were playing multiplayer cooperation campaign in Max Payne 2, but Max was nowhere to be seen and the plot was completely different. Naturally, it looked like real life. Me and my two brothers were in some city in USA. We were in a tall, probably abandoned building getting ready to assassinate a high-ranking politician, probably a senator connected to organised crime.
Me and my twin brother were standing next to a table with a map on it. I think we were planning the assassination. We knew an organisation we fought hired a very expensive assassin to stop us. While we were discussing the best course of action, my older brother spotted the assassin in a building just across the street. He took a sniper rifle and shot the assasin. It looked pretty much exactly like in Sniper Elite 2, slow motion, bones and internal organs exposed in x-ray vision and all that. I wanted to get back to planning, but my brother kept using quick load to kill the assassin over and over again by hitting different organs and arteries. I got fed up eventually and tried to take his rifle away after a headshot right between the eyes. I didn't manage to do that, but I messed up the rifle's scope.
We decided to go search the assassin for any clues about who we were up against. The first floor of the building looked like an abandoned store with empty shelves, a counter and a shelf with the assassin's weapons. The assassin had nothing useful, but there were large signs covered in awful handwriting around the room. After reading the first sign, that identified the assassin as Mel Gibson (No idea why, he didn't even look like him.), the shelves, counter and the door we used to enter burst into flames. I looked around and saw another door but my older brother stopped me before I could try to open it. He complained that he was stuck at this point in the game in singleplayer because that door wouldn't open no matter what and he'd always burn to death.
I decided to read all the signs. Each sign was smaller than the previous but the handwriting kept getting better. The signs said there was another assassin somewhere upstairs. He was sent to kill us if Mel Gibson failed and to kill Gibson if he succeeded. I think the last sign also provided a clue to the identity of the organisation we fought. When I read the last sign, the previously locked door suddenly opened and revealed stairs leading up. We had enough health to take a look at the weapons. You could carry only two weapons in this dream. This also meant the only way I could use my two Ingrams was dual wielding. It was simply imposible to use only one at a time because that would count as an entirely different weapon. The only intereting weapon we found seemed to be an M79 grenade launcher. I suggested that my twin brother should take it as it would complement his machine gun better than a pistol. He wasn't too happy about it as he liked the pistol a lot. I managed to convince him by saying that M79 was so good I would usually ditch my dual Ingrams in the first Max Payne in favor of an M79 and that he could always take a pistol from a dead enemy.
I know we went upstairs and killed the second assassin after a long and difficult battle, but I don't remember it and I'm not even sure if it actually happened in the dream. The next part of the dream that I remember took place at a construction site. There was a meeting of crime bosses, I remember seeing five of them but I'm sure there were more, each boss had two guards. They were on the top floor of an unfinished building. Me and my brothers rushed in from the floor below. My twin brother immediately fired his M79 at a group of enemies that were standing right next to us. It was a dumb idea but we still had full bullet time so we dodged all shrapnel from the explosion. I saw two bosses and their guards in one direction. I decided to take care of them and let my brothers repel an inevitable counterattack from the other direction. I don't know why I decided not to use my weapons. I used my bullet time as I ran right up to the enemies and then I started to punch and kick them in the face. It was going pretty well until a yakuza boss showed up. The yakuza boss and her guards were girls in bikini for some reason and they knew martial arts. I got pushed to a wall where I couldn't maneuver and I'm pretty sure I'd get my ass kicked if a random noise didn't wake me up.

[TD1]

Well...that's creepy...

Anyone else think Koreans have been planting sleeper units with codewords "32" and "0?" 

[Mr Space Cat]

Had a nightmare that centered around the idea that my high school was the target of a psychopathic serial killer sniper (possibly multiple snipers working together) who put the school under lockdown and forced everyone into "Jigsaw from Saw"-esque games. If you didn't play, the sniper shot you and you'd die. If you played wrong, the sniper shot you, and you'd die. Probably if you played right, you'd get shot too, and probably die. If you tried anything outside when there wasn't some kind of "game" being done, you'd get shot and killed the instant you were spotted. This usually meant if you so much as went outside you'd be gunned down in seconds.

They communicated their orders through a variety of unexpected methods such as by hacking the school PA system, playing a pre-recorded video message through computer monitors, etc.

the most memorable "game" was when the shooters first made themselves known with their first game. The objective was to stay out of the gunner's sight and reach the end of an obstacle course. The obstacle course was a long, straight tunnel out of the school stadium. The tunnel had no cover, nothing to break the line of sight of the gunners, and was filled with every student and teacher in the school, who had all gathered there for an otherwise innocent football game or concert or something when no one knew about the shooters. The tunnel was packed full of too many people trying to get out of a chokepoint all at once.

So, it was basically the running of the bulls, except with lots more traffic and waaaay more shooting. It was a trick game in that the snipers had full view of the tunnel and could shoot anyone and everyone without breaking the rules, because there was no way to get out of their line of sight. Like shooting fish that you tricked into a barrel.

It was pretty terrifying. There were some other scenes and games but that's the most of what I can remember.

[nomoetoe]

I had a dream that I was a very powerful wizard. I spent some time early on in the dream talking with some people near a building in the town I live in, I decided that I was bored of earth and made two propellers with engines out of paper, the people tried to convince me to stay but I refused to listen.

After getting around some annoying power lines I flew into space going to some place called the ice nebula. I was viewing a screen telling what happened here in the last thousand years or so (I was there a long time) at one point organs started appearing, then human corpses, now I was on a spaceship with some people and we listened to music, we eventually landed on a planet (earth?) and were at the same building but everything else was gone.

The spaceship was now a bus and we were looking for a good place to get out, I saw some fairly large wolves and told the people not to get out cause there be wolves, we drove around the building a few times trying to kill the wolves I had dealt with quite a few but a velociraptor jumped into the bus (which was now a van) and tried to attack everyone, I used my power to slow time and grabbed the velociraptor (that was now a wolf) and pushed it out of the van (which was a bus again.)

When I set time to be normal again we looked out and everyone started screaming because we were with 2 other vans going in a big circle, I yelled "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!" and now I saw a bunch of messages telling what happened (like in dwarf fortress) apparently I melted everyone and went far away never to be seen again.

[nogoodnames]

I had a nightmare where my mother got me involved with a cult. The cult wouldn't let anyone leave the neighborhood they had set up in (which was centered around my grandmother's house). I was terrified and wanted to get my mother out, but she was completely going along with them and I knew they would use her against me if I became a problem.
I tried to escape once, but some of the cultists managed to turn me back. I went back to pack up my stuff and grabbed a replica sword off the wall in case I needed to fight my way out. I knew now that I had shown them I would be disruptive they would be coming for me. I made it to the front door before the cultists surrounded me. The cult leader came up to talk to me and I was contemplating killing him with the sword, then I woke up.

I usually don't put much stock in my dreams, but this one seems to have been telling me something. I know that being helpless in a situation like that is one of my worst fears.
Then again, before the cult stuff the dream was focused on me playing with a bunch of hamsters, so who knows.

[Itnetlolor]

During a nap, I had a bit of a micro-dream. Apparently, I was very demonic in nature, and just getting my ass handed to me by some mysterious forces beyond my comprehension; and in quite a movie-like fashion, I get slammed into the ground really hard by some demented monstrosity made of nothing; kinda hard to describe what nothing looks like, but the creature was pretty intimidating looking, even by my standards, and I'm jaded to these kinds of things normally. I suppose Gigyas comes to mind as something to compare to.

As I wake up, I see a shimmering angel, which looks familiar while at it, and picks me up as I'm broken down and defeated to the point of tears. I mean, feeling utterly powerless. Being lifted back into battle, I get an interesting message that gets me back into the fight (better mood and such) side-to-side with the angel, kicking ass while at it, while still a demon/devil. She basically said to me "A devil is none more than a fallen angel. Get back up.".

EDIT:
Think about it, I wanted to illustrate something like this. Angel and demon, fighting side by side as equals, complementing each others' abilities. Of course, the angel taking pity on the demon being the prequel image to it. Sorta came during a darker time. Was a cool enough image alone to lift me up a bit.

[Putnam]

I've only really had one dream involving divinity AFAIK. It involved the Void Ghost (Lorkhan, Elder Scrolls thing) talking to me. Now, my dreams are often pretty damn abstract. It wasn't saying anything. All I know is that it felt like it was choking me, but I knew I was in no danger. That's a cool idea for the feeling of talking to divinity. I'm keeping it.

[TD1]

During a nap, I had a bit of a micro-dream. Apparently, I was very demonic in nature, and just getting my ass handed to me by some mysterious forces beyond my comprehension; and in quite a movie-like fashion, I get slammed into the ground really hard by some demented monstrosity made of nothing; kinda hard to describe what nothing looks like, but the creature was pretty intimidating looking, even by my standards, and I'm jaded to these kinds of things normally. I suppose Gigyas comes to mind as something to compare to.

As I wake up, I see a shimmering angel, which looks familiar while at it, and picks me up as I'm broken down and defeated to the point of tears. I mean, feeling utterly powerless. Being lifted back into battle, I get an interesting message that gets me back into the fight (better mood and such) side-to-side with the angel, kicking ass while at it, while still a demon/devil. She basically said to me "A devil is none more than a fallen angel. Get back up.".

EDIT:
Think about it, I wanted to illustrate something like this. Angel and demon, fighting side by side as equals, complementing each others' abilities. Of course, the angel taking pity on the demon being the prequel image to it. Sorta came during a darker time. Was a cool enough image alone to lift me up a bit.

That sounds like a cool book idea.

[hops]

Last night I dreamed I was talking to someone on #bay12lb nicknamed Old_Scratch.
I don't remember anything else but the demonic reference and Bay12 make this seem noteworthy.

[nomoetoe]

I had a dream that I was in a very dark and foggy sewer with elves and an octopus, we were looking for scp 173 so we could kill it, we were walking for quite some time before we found a room with elves in some tavern, a dwarf came in armed with a sword and a crossbow talking about mercenaries and he tried to kill the elves, I picked him up and took him outside I thought he'd be helpful in our little quest, sadly he had no interest and he ceased to exist.

We came to a door that was boarded up, we decided this is were scp 173 probably was so we broke off the boards and went inside. We went in and now we were in a bright gymnasium with tables full of food, some people were coming in to eat so the elves decided to go outside and eat dandelions. I woke up before they got to eating.

[Mesa]

So recently I had a...weird dream.
Basically, I was playing with my friends in my house and I was apparently meant to be a spaceship (guess we were supposed to be a bit younger in that dream...) and I was being chased by another ship (read: one of my friends). It was dark, and I run into my anteroom, but in order for my chaser to lose track of me, I had to "disable my heat and oxygen systems" (not sure how that would work, but ok), so I did that and I've noticed that my heat and oxygen levels were, well, dropping down fairly fast, but the enemy ship lost track of me and was planning to give up, but then he decided to prepare a "cloaking scan" (which IIRC was just him being a cheating bastard and using  flashlight to search for me, but apparently there was some "scientific" explanation for that (even if the ship was invisible it would leave a shadow that can be tracked down...or something), but I quickly managed to slip past him into my room (ie. into another sector).

After that I was apparently some sort of ancient robot or a spaceship that was brought back to "life" by inhabitants of a planet I was on, but I really can't pick up any more details than that.


Still, that was a pretty wacky and slightly nostalgic dream. Made me think of that WIP game Heat Signature (from the maker of Gunpoint) and FTL to some degree.

[Guardian G.I.]

The latest meaningful dream that I can somewhat remember featured an noir adventure game set in a very stylish and colourful cyberpunk city.
The other one I had had a few day before was about a global catastrophe that destroyed the entire Western hemisphere, Africa and Europe. The former USSR survived it relatively unscathed. Europeans and Americans were forced to settle in overcrowded Southeast Asia and were eyeing to invade the resource-rich and spacious Russian lands. I can't remember anything else about it.

[SnugglePie]

I had three dreams today.

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The first one took place at a cargo ship in a harbor. We were loading containers onto the ship and getting ready for a long trip. Most of the cargo was from a single corporation. I didn't think the corporation was trustworthy but they paid a lot of money for this trip. The corporation also requested that a group of soldiers would stay on the ship and keep an eye on their cargo.
I don't know how, but one of the containers got open and an alien (Alien franchise alien) started to kill people on the ship. The ship was then surrounded by soldiers who would kill anyone trying to get off the ship. I don't remember much of the next part but it consisted mostly of me running from the alien and trying to hide. All soldiers on board and a few members of the ship's crew were killed by the alien before we managed to knock it unconcious and throw it overboard where it drowned. I think we used a crane to do it. There were only four people on the ship at that point, me, another man and two women.
I was with one of the women. She was so shocked by what had happened that she was shaking and mumbling uncontrollably. She was sure the soldiers on shore would come on board and kill us. I wasn't in a much better state, but I told her to hide somewhere while I go search for other survivors. I managed to find the other two eventually. I told them what happened and they told me the woman I had been with before was the one who had opened the container with the alien. At that moment, the ship's engines were turned on and the ship started to move. We ran to the bridge, but we couldn't get in because the door was locked. We could see the woman inside. I yelled at her to stop the ship as I wanted to get off the ship at any cost and would have prefered to get shot rather than being eaten by an alien or getting a baby alien inside my chest.
The soldiers pursued us on boats and started to board the ship. The other man said "Fuck it!" and jumped overboard followed by the woman that was with him. They managed to swim to the shore, but they were shot shortly after that. I was just standing near the bridge panicking and with no idea what to do. The surviving woman then ran out of the bridge and started to open one container after another releasing aliens in the process. I don't remember if she got killed by the aliens or the soldiers. The soldiers tried to fight but it was clear they would lose. A group of aliens noticed me and started to close in. Then I woke up sweating and scared shitless. I took me an hour to fall asleep.

The second dream took place in my home. I had a bucket of small fish and I was trying to teach three seals some tricks. They attacked me after a while and I woke up again.

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In the third dream, I was mostly just an observer. The eleventh Doctor and his companion Clara had some bussiness in London. I think he was going to leave her while she was still alive. A young female Asian history teacher knew about it somehow. Something of huge historical value had been stolen from a local museum some thirty years ago and had never been retrieved. The teacher stole the unattended TARDIS (no idea how) and took her class (They looked around twelve years old.) to the museum before the thing was stolen.
Following the Doctor Who tradition, they arrived on the exact same night the thing disappeared. The teacher and her class walked through the dark museum. A night watchman found them after a few minutes. I knew he was the teacher's father even though the teacher didn't know it, the watchman wasn't Asian and it wasn't stated by anyone or anything. The watchman was convinced they wanted to steal something and decided to use his supernatural powers to stop them. He turned into gold dust, probably in order to enter their lungs and suffocate them. The teacher used her own powers to take control of the dust. She made a ball out of the dust, slightly bigger than a tennis ball. She made the dust move inside the ball which caused the gold to melt because of friction. The gold then quickly cooled down and she let the solid ball fall on the floor. I'm not sure if it killed him or if it was just an inconvinience.
The dream changed. I was no longer watching from inside the show. I was sitting on a couch in my living room next to my twin brother watching Doctor Who. I was eating chocolate. My brother was pretty angry and said "Bullshit! Humans can't do that!" as the teacher was explicitly stated to be an ordinary human before. I looked at my brother and said "Well, it's not that far-fetched. I can do something similar". I did the same trick with the chocolate but it didn't cool down so I held a ball of hot liquid chocolate with my mind. My father, who was watching the TV from the kitchen, entered the living room and told me to get out before I spill the chocolate on the couch or carpet. I stood up and decided the best way to make the chocolate cool down was to enter a fridge and stay in there for a while. I hummed the My Little Pony theme on my way to the fridge which woke me up.
When I fell asleep again, the teacher was the Doctor's new companion. They were in a town on contemporary Earth and talked to an elderly couple that claimed their house used to be haunted more than a hundred years ago until two strangers came and put an end to it. You've probably guessed the strangers were Doctor and his companion. Doctor and his companion went back in time to investigate.  The area was now a swamp. All buildings were made of wood and built on top of logs. There were wooden sidewalks attached to the buildings. It was stated it was somewhere in Britain, the American civil war was mentioned a few times and the town was apparently in South's territory although the frontline was getting close but soldiers‘ uniforms and weapons looked like from late 18th century.
Doctor spent some time asking around in case someone knew anything useful. He was told howling and wailing could be heard from the house and ghosts could be seen inside after midnight. The next part is a bit hazy. A private detective insisted he‘d help Doctor investigate the house. They were chased by soldiers for some reason. Doctor wanted to return to TARDIS but someone dragged it away while it was unattended. The soldiers eventually surrounded Doctor, his companion and the detective in front of the haunted house. The soldiers were afraid to get close to it so they started to ready their muskets. Rather than getting shot, Doctor and the others entered the house.
The house was much bigger on the inside. The first room was pretty much empty. There were stairs leading both upstairs and downstairs. The teacher was nowhere to be seen. There were strange sounds coming from outside. Doctor opened the door he used to get in and there was a subway station. A train was leaving at the moment. Doctor closed the door and went upstairs.  He opened a door and there was an office. There was someone sitting in a chair in the middle of the room with his back turned to the door. There was another man standing next to the chair, again with his back to the door. He wore a long brown coat and a fedora hat. He was whispering something to the sitting man. Doctor didn’t want to get noticed so he slowly closed the door. Doctor and the detective went downstairs. There was a door and two men standing in front of it. They were completely motionless with looks of absolute terror on their faces. Doctor waved his magical screwdriver and said the two men were literally scared to death by something. He continued with some technobabble about how that made them stand still even though they were dead. He carefully opened the door and then I woke up.

[Eric Blank]

    I've actually been having a lot of wacky dreams lately.

Spoiler: One! (click to show/hide)

    Last night I had a ascii dorf dream. Unusual for me, and this one began where the previous left off; I had gotten a bunch of soldiers either trapped with goblins, trapped alone on a long winding bridge over water channels between a series of airlocks, crushed under drawbridges, or stuck in the fortress where they couldn't rescue their comrades.
This time around I had to fend off another goblin siege outside so I recruited a bunch of nobodies, ordered them into two melee squads and a crossbow squad, and had them and the available remains of the other two squads line up near the ramps leading topside, where I had a walled enclosure with a lightly trapped drawbridge entrance. I opened the bridge to allow the goblins inside, I dont recall how effective the traps actually were but at least one squad of bowmen made it inside and took up positions in the courtyard. I then sent the dwarves out to fight them, and predictably they wandered out single-file despite having been mustered previously. They got slaughtered, and I felt bad.

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In another, I was milling about at an elementary school for whatever stupid dream-reason, until the students were dismissed and loaded onto buses. I hopped on one of them and took a seat, and it turns out my brother was driving. There were also cages of bats suspended from the ceiling, and after driving up some road out of town, my brother cackled madly like a movie villain, opened the cages, and the bats ate all the children. Then a cat fight woke me up.

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    In yet another, I joined an army of canine furries in mounting a medieval siege against a human-controlled stone fortress. Not sure of the political situation other than that these humans needed to die, apparently, and the fluffballs didn't mind working with a human - me, the only human in the army - to kill them. So we ran up to the walls while being shot at, set up siege ladders, and began scaling the walls. No other strategy involved, apparently. I was standing at the base of the ladders with a pike, and when a ladder had an opening I would climb up, poke enemies up on the walls, and move aside to let other soldiers past. Eventually, after some ungodly number of friendly casualties, this tactic worked and we gained control of that one section of walls, which apparently was only a straight jetty connecting the keep to a lone tower way out to one side. This ddin't strike me as a silly fortress design at the time. Anyway, once I climbed up there, I turned back to the tower and threw a few bodies on top of a hatch there to prevent being surprised from behind, and eventually the battle was won and then I woke up.

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    I had yet another dream wherein I was Banjo from Banjo Kazooie and was going for a hike in the snowy wilderness with my family, who paid no attention to the fact that I was a bear. We came upon some abandoned industrial facility or something which my brother explained used to be owned by some cultist organization that was manufacturing chemical weapons, and apparently refining uranium or something because the place was irradiated, in some bid to destroy the world. We wandered around there for a while because it was cool, no mind paid to the radiation or possibility of other bizarre toxins everywhere, and then hiked on.
    At that point my family mysteriously vanished and I was left with two women I didn't recognize, and eventually I got bored because they were fucking slow and whiny and I was a goddamn bear who doesn't have to chaperon strangers in my goddamn forest, and moved on ahead. At that point the dream turned into some 2D platformer game and I was running and jumping around logs like some sort of grizzly-bear Mario. I eventually came upon a road, and everything was 3D again and perfectly normal. So I determined, somehow, that I had hiked like 30 miles ahead and decided to turn around and go back, cue 2D platformer sequence in reverse until I returned to those two women. I set up camp for them and went to bed, then woke up IRL.

Spoiler: KABOOM! (click to show/hide)

    Finally, I dreamed of some video game in which I was playing a fighter pilot defending a world from an invasion by Arachnids; you know, the bugs from Klendathu in Starship Troopers? Anyway, I was strafing hordes of bugs along a beachfront - and occasionally hordes of human soldiers: it all starts to look sort of the same when it's obscured by clouds of sand. That went on for a while and I killed a few of those big ass bugs with the glowing plasma-butts and then got shot down or something, at which point the game switched to a first person shooter, except I had crashed out in the ocean some two hundred yards from shore and promptly sank to the bottom. Apparently fighters pilots' space suits are also cleared for multiple atmospheres of pressure as well as vacuum, because this didn't bother me at all. Nor did it bother the underwater combat team I joined, or any of our weapons, in shooting up bugs underwater, protecting supports of a large dock area that was apparently a space port the human forces were using as a headquarters for a counter-invasion.

    In the end everybody died and I scrambled onto a transport with a few other people, including the two women from the previous dream, and took off. Those assholes proceeded to berate me because apparently I hang out with all the wrong girls (or at least one of them was my CO) and my performance on the battlefield was simultaneously not impressive enough and good enough they decided I would be their pilot on a covert raid on some office complex that had been taken over by people with bugs in their brains. I dont know what was going on at that point other than a lot of sneaking around, and the building's layout was absolutely bonkers. I woke up before the dream came to a conclusion.