I remember being in a dream-thread before, but this is the top-most (and most recent looking, indeed still current!) one that I've seen, and while all day I've been too busy to properly put finger to keyboard on
this subject (at least), I still feel (at the end of the day) that an aspect of last night's dreams was strange enough to mention.
First of all, it was the usual hotch-potch of multi-storyline dream, that I tend to have, and further tempered by time. Accordingly, don't expect to see much structure to the following prose, which necessarily skips over a lot of detail (both forgotten, and remembered but considered even less relevant than the
rest of what is reported).
There's some largely irrelevant and standard elements. At one point I'm the guy in the underground lair (or at least observing them, in close 3rd person, and probably switching 1st and 3rd person arbitrarily) where some large cavern is being outfitted with machinery and structures in something that seemed a bit Minecrafty, to my mind (later, when I thought about it), even though it's been a while since I've MCed. Probably some DF in there too. And some Kerbal Space Program, too.
Switch to
above the underground cavern, and there's a party going on in the flat (US translation: apartment) thereupon, where I
might now be Russian (unless I was just observing the wrong character, the one that wasn't actually me, feh...), and there was some strange thing about throwing a pair of dice whenever anything was taken from the fridge. (That's simplifying that little game. It, of course, made no sense.)
At various times, as the action moves back and forth in my traditionally disorganied dream-sequences, I'm also walking, or otherwise travelling, around the great outdoors. On one occasion I went along a certain road, to find that I couldn't quite get to where I wanted to get to (c.f.
Geohashing). Along the way, the map I'm using shows an area off to one side where apparently a set of 'back to basics' people, a bit like a Hippy Commune, had (I'm told, by someone I can't remember) had claimed an old watermill and would permit people to go via their land if they could explain why they should be allowed to. (Im actually not sure if this 'scene' was part of last nights' dream, or not, because when I first woke I was convinced that it was a previous nights' dream that this area was laid out in my imagination.)
Later on, at the end of the dream, I'm back on another walk (although that's often seamless with other modes of transport, in my dreams... I'm used to that) when I realise that I need to cross that land, so I approach the watermill (the same place, although now, apparently, transformed into a canal-side cottage, with where a lane had previously run perpendicular across the fields, now a very main road and a heavy-duty mechanical bridge-type thing that
either let the canal boats go over the road, or the road across the canal... the dream was hazy enough on the subject, never mind the numerous hours passed since awakening).
At the door to the mill, I found myself face-to-face with a hippy lady of some description who asked if I wanted anything, and, of course, I want to walk across the land (and bridge the canal, and walk across this road, as well, that definitely wasn't there before), and so starts a question and answer phase...
Except that I just couldn't think of anything intelligent to say. It wasn't just my 'umm'ing ad 'ahh'ing to the hippy woman, in response to her questions, but
she just couldn't think of anything to ask
me. My imagination just had nowhere to go, it seems. And then I did a mental shrug of my shoulders and woke up. No alarms had woken me, nothing had clattered outside in the street, and it wasn't (as it sometimes is, for me) the time I should be waking up, regardless of whether I'd set my alarm or not.
I just can't remember
that happening before. Given the dynamic nature of the "screenplay" behind my dreams, I can drift in and out of consciousness (even when I've
had enough sleep) and go in and out of varied episodes with ease, even.
Oh, and, yes... unless I'm
currently dreaming, I'm fairly sure that I
actually woke up at that point. But I
have "dreamt that I've woken up" before, so... well, who knows...
Anyway, as to the rest of the thread, I probably need to read it, if only to see off-topic I've gone.