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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2625 on: July 18, 2015, 11:20:22 am »

You can actualy condition your brain to remember your dreams better by using the first five minutes after you wake up to try and remember detials about your dream. Keeping a "dream diary" of sorts using this technique eventualy makes your brain more able to recall your dreams, I've been told.

The diary part is true. I've tried it, but I stopped because I remembered some dreams that are better off not remembered  :-X.
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2626 on: July 18, 2015, 11:28:44 am »

I had a dream where I made a mug of tea in my long-mug. Then I woke up and realized that mug had been broken for decades.

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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2627 on: July 18, 2015, 11:51:27 am »

My dream last night had 4 PoVs. One PoV was if the Batman was the father of 16 little brats who all wanted his world to revolve around THEM. Very demanding. As this Batdad guy I'm sure I threatened to blow up the batbus we were driving more than once. Another PoV was Mr. Freeze, commanding his army of goons to take over some super important government building. Only there was someone else, my third PoV, who was trying to take over the same building with incendiary devices. Pretty sure this guy had some sort of super-jump and mild shape-shifting. Anyways, I learned the hard way that it's both impossible to command an army and lay bombs when being swarmed with hyperactive cape-wearing children that are being used as projectiles.

My fourth PoV was the guy selling icecream on the sidewalk outside the building. Watching the fight this way was... glorious.
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2628 on: July 18, 2015, 12:14:24 pm »

Oh man I had a prepaid debit card that expired TODAY (it was actually september 9th, which was weird, not because it's the wrong date but because I can't normally read text in dreams) but I didn't know what to do with it so I bought $50 of sour gummi worms

On waking up I decided this was a realistic and reasonable decision, were the circumstances to ever occur in real life
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2629 on: July 18, 2015, 12:24:28 pm »

Oh man I had a prepaid debit card that expired TODAY (it was actually september 9th, which was weird, not because it's the wrong date but because I can't normally read text in dreams) but I didn't know what to do with it so I bought $50 of sour gummi worms

On waking up I decided this was a realistic and reasonable decision, were the circumstances to ever occur in real life

Text often changes in dreams if you look away, but it's usually readable for me.
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« Reply #2630 on: July 18, 2015, 01:35:19 pm »

It always seems blurry or jumbled.
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2631 on: July 18, 2015, 01:43:11 pm »

Two notable dreams in the past week:

First was a nightmare involving yet more body horror, which seems to be a recurring theme for some reason :c
Basically someone's forearm was impaled by a pair of metal paddles in such a way that the paddles passed between the radius and ulna bones. Then the two paddles began to move away from each other, widening the injury and bending the bones until they snapped from the strain. But that wasn't the end of it; the gap between the paddles grew wider and wider until the whole forearm split in two.

The second started as a nightmare, but nothing as bad at that. I was locked in a small room with only one door and no windows. A spider was released into the room. Not a big spider, or even a particularly aggressive spider. I immediately began to freak out, trying desperately to escape the spider which was minding it's own business. At that point I woke up, realized "Wait, I'm afraid of wasps, not spiders", and fell right back asleep.
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2632 on: July 20, 2015, 09:47:03 am »

Had a dream where a friend was figuratively vomiting forth her personal problems to confide in me, most of which cut upsettingly close to my own, but I had to act like they didn't so as not to turn it into a pity party.
That's hardly dream material. That's the kind of shit people have to deal with while they're awake.
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2633 on: July 20, 2015, 10:30:55 am »

Dreamed last night of dwarf fortress with family. It was... The game just sort of was the reality, it was functionally multiplayer. Kept losing forts to evil biomes. Everywhere was evil.
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« Reply #2634 on: July 20, 2015, 11:31:55 am »

Dreamed last night of dwarf fortress with family. It was... The game just sort of was the reality, it was functionally multiplayer. Kept losing forts to evil biomes. Everywhere was evil.

Was it in ASCII?
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2635 on: July 20, 2015, 11:43:59 am »

For some reason whenever I have realistic dreams of myself at home, I dream of my old home, and not my current one, which is larger and overall better. I've been living here for over two years now, but I've never had a single dream with this house in it. At least none that I can remember, at least.
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2636 on: July 20, 2015, 04:09:38 pm »

Dreamed last night of dwarf fortress with family. It was... The game just sort of was the reality, it was functionally multiplayer. Kept losing forts to evil biomes. Everywhere was evil.

Was it in ASCII?

Parts of it, yes. Parts of it were like a western cartoon.
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2637 on: July 20, 2015, 07:49:38 pm »

Dreamed last night of dwarf fortress with family. It was... The game just sort of was the reality, it was functionally multiplayer. Kept losing forts to evil biomes. Everywhere was evil.

Was it in ASCII?

Parts of it, yes. Parts of it were like a western cartoon.

All that Littlest Cheesemaker fanart is still in my head.
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2638 on: July 20, 2015, 10:35:23 pm »

Ugh, I had one of those dreams. Hadn't had one in ages. They're always annoying. :(
I much prefer the dreams where I'm some sort of warrior/maniac going around murdering my foes. Hell, even the nightmares I get when resetting my sleep pattern are preferable to those dreams. They're actually pretty cool, despite generally disturbing my sleep- they get the adrenaline pumping, uncover my deepest fears in an interesting way, and don't increase the amount of laundry I have to do. >.>
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Re: The Dream Thread
« Reply #2639 on: July 21, 2015, 08:19:56 am »

I've had one of those more bizarre dreams which confuses me more than tells me something about myself1. I was digging in the basement of my house (in real life, I do not have a basement. The dream basement appeared to be 8ft high and I could not see where the walls began in the darkness). I was down there with several other people when the cats attacked. They looked exactly like my own cat except  that they floated, some were wreathed in blue flames instead of ginger fur and they all breathed fire. Understandably the group and I was quite perturbed by this and ran upstairs, losing some people along the way. We slam the fire resistant door shut and I throw myself against it, noting the door is getting warmer and we've got about 15 minutes. I also listen to the thrumming beyond and sneak a quick peek and find there are 14 of them outside.
I tell two of the other three still left alive to put the stoves on and get out of here whilst I keep the door shut, but they put the stove on and light it to begin cooking. Dream-me is at this point screaming at them for being such colossal idiots, that we're all going to die for no reason when at least some of us could survive. Then we see the real cat (not breathing fire) huddling terrified in one corner and I open the fire door and jam my hand through the eye socket of the fire demon cat thing screaming right back at me. It looks surprised and astonishingly does not die even as it is wedged between the door with my hand digging through it. One of the people cooking on the stove hands me something when I ask for something to kill it with, instead of a knife they give me a fork but the fork does the job. This spurns a sudden bout of competency amongst my dream compatriots and with sharpened shovels, spades, one longsword, meat cleavers and in one instance hand, set about beheading all the fire cats.
One of the weirdest things, so weird that it did not even make sense to me operating under dream logic was that the fire cats did not bleed. Most when beheaded (and they were beheaded far too easily, like breaking a cabbage) left behind brittle bones and flaking dry flesh flecked with red splotches of blood, as if it had been left to dry in the sun for months and not just been a part of a fire-breathing flying cat demon moments ago. We all congratulated ourselves as we move room to room killing the cat demons, happy that we hadn't killed the real cat (amusingly the last firecat killed was playfully attacked by the real cat and playfully responded back with a little flames, showing its true colours). That last cat is also highly unusual because when beheaded its inside turned out to be sticks of celery.
There were also two black kittens and one black cat with us that did not set us on fire. We did not have the heart to kill them when they could be real cats so I made the point that if they're real then we've just beheaded normal cats and if they're demonic fire cats then we can raise them and have demonic fire cats on our side. Then we slammed the basement door shut and went back upstairs to grab the cooking amidst a charred house littered with dry body parts and macabre cat heads sticking out of sticks of celery like heads on green spikes. It seems the fires they set died out when they too died out.
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