I had a dream where I was lost in a dark place. I had my phone flashlight but the light was mostly just absorbed into the ground, same as shining it into the starless sky. It wasn't hazy, just a place of overpowering gloom.
And the weird thing is I'm pretty sure it was inspired by these monstrosities:
https://twitter.com/noeljaboy/status/1352563540821905408?s=21They got me talking about recurring dreams of being adrift in vast spaces, and I think my brain went poetic with that concept. I could feel the ground just fine, but I was visually adrift instead. It was more strange than scary.
The much scarier dream was the night before, where... I dreamed I was a young queer child with a monstrous father (I wasn't me and it wasn't my real father, it was another story-dream). I had to try to survive with help from the queer community.
...hm, I guess I've said I'm not comfortable with "queer", but in the dream the word represented my best hope for survival and acceptance. It's a good word for a lot of people.
Had another dream just now on the night of the 26th:
It was like going to the fair with my friends, except it was a futuristic space fair with aliens and synthetics. It was taking place in a VR game we were playing called The Outer Worlds, but the setting was more like Borderlands 3 with some aliens. (Which, like... there's a lot of stuff in the Borderlands universe which barely seems human).
I don't remember any combat, mostly we were just hanging out in the massive fairground. We had roles and there was a story we were supposed to be working on, like we were playing a TTRPG again. I was a rather small synthetic named D4MS3L, heh. A nice dream-mirror to playing as FL4K in BL3 before falling asleep. Both cases they/them.
I got separated and really lost, but it wasn't bad. Mostly just frustrating... I had been in the right place to continue the story, some sort of corporate office, but I couldn't find it again and my friends didn't seem to care about the narrative much. Ha, I remember trying to look up a walkthrough on my phone, but it kept identifying the songs my friends and I were singing. I had a cool vocaloid voice
Finally, despite *playing* a *robot* in a VR game, I quickly summoned and put on my mask when some green alien officeworker got too close in an elevator. I guess it's not the weirdest thing, FL4K behaves like an organic in a lot of ways in-game.