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[Eric Blank]

Probably not a new idea, no.

Fixing things is much harder than breaking them. I prefer breaking them in a constructive manner, or eliminating them completely, such that they can be replaced.

[FearfulJesuit]

I dreamed that I was at a Christmas something-or-other. I don't remember much, except that apparently it's Christmas canon that Santa has a pet porcupine.

[Akura]

I swear I had a dream recently that involved an air-hockey table. And then I walk out of my home this morning and find the next-door neighbor has thrown one out.

[FArgHalfnr]

I've had a bunch of bad dreams recently, that's why I haven't posted much here. Last night, however I dreamed of something nicer. Me and some other people were building rooms made out of blue legos in a basement for some reason. I remember it was vaguely related to minecraft.

[flabort]

I dreamed that I was researching human genetics and identifying an assload of genes that could lead to certain diseases, but also a rediculous amount of genes that gave slight extrasensory abilities.

Firstly the genes that cause Alzheimers. Apparently there's 32 different locations in the genome they can show up, and there's up to 3 varieties of the gene per position, and most of them are recessive; this means there's 80 different Alzheimers genes. Apparently most people have 5-10 in their genotype, and 1-5 in their phenotype. Having 0, 1, or 2 Alzheimers genes in your pheotype basically means you won't get it. Having 3 or more means you will get it; 10 or more and you're gonna have early onset. And apparently Variants 12b, 16a, and 23c each count as two, Variants 4c and 19b count as three (guaranteeing Alzheimers if they're in your phenotype), and variant 29a counts as two as well, but as one while in the genotype but not the phenotype (unique in that way, since the others all HAVE to be in the phenotype to count). According to my dream and the research I did in the dream.

I also found the "IT Extrasensory Gene", which allows you to sense when something is ABOUT to happen, such as a power-surge or a rise in humidity in the server room, etc, as well as two seperate genes for the "IT Aura", which allows you to fix things by looking at them. Once I started discovering this kind of beneficial gene, I discovered certain markers in the genes that allowed me to locate and research other "borderline paranormal" genes, such as the "Sailor's Gene", which let you predict the weather and wind accurately, the "Gypsy Gene" which let you read a person's emotions and face much more accurately and leads to you seeming like you can read minds and see the future, and since there were 8 positions where that particular gene could show up having 4 or more actually let you predict the person well enough that you could alter their future with their actions and give what seems like "gypsy curses", hence the name of the gene. I also found genes that promoted memory retention, including photographic memory, ability to study both while under pressure and not (which can be trained but come easier when you have these genes), and the "prodigy gene", which was very uncommon but had lots of varieties.

Eventually I found so many extrasensory genes that I wrote a book on them, but the book was the size of a full back-pack. No, not a school back-pack, a hiking backpack, and fuller than that. Fuller. That's it. So I used cheap reprogrammed E-readers to distribute my book to university libraries; since the book took up the entire e-reader, I made it so that you couldn't change the contents and upload more books, but I also managed to make it very easy to go back and forth and stuff. Eventually I used my research to make a "GMO Human", with as many extrasensory and learning oriented genes as possible. Including all the varieties of the Prodigy Gene. All the genes used came from humans, no genes from other animals, but this elite human would be the best. Of course I left most of the visual genes (such as hair, eye, or skin color, or height or gender or stuff) up to random chance based on the parents, but I gave each and every one of them the best chance to be elite that I could.

Of course, I woke up before any of them could actually be born.

[hops]

I dreamed that I was playing a horror videogame that is so scary that as the plot develops I find myself wanting to play on but also dreading what I would find, and I ended up wussing out.

[birdy51]

Had another apocalyptic dream. I'm not sure why those keep happening, but they're interesting. This one involved a seemingly unstoppable army Orks or something in the relatively modern age.

...Warhammer? I've never actually played it or looked too far into it.

[Itnetlolor]

I dreamed that I was playing a horror videogame that is so scary that as the plot develops I find myself wanting to play on but also dreading what I would find, and I ended up wussing out.

That reminds me of an Oculus Rift horror game demo I watched. You're in a game via VR, playing a game on a TV, and as you make progress with the game, the house you're playing in is also affected by it. So the creepier the game gets, the creepier your surroundings get, and eventually, a surprise happens. Definite paranoia fuel for a VR game. If I can find a link to it, I'll post it.

EDIT:
Here we go: https://youtu.be/mYvewljW7Lg

[Eric Blank]

The other night I dreamed I had gone for a walk in the woods and got kidnapped by elves and taken to the faelands. There was only one elven village left in the entire world. It looked like your average small rural American town along the highway. Everybody used cars to get around, too. So, I was made to live with one particular family. The son was the one I interacted with mostly. He was supposed to keep an eye on me I guess. About 15-16 year old kid, kinda pudgy. While the parents were away I accompanied him to go pick up his sister named Deer. Just Deer. She had spent the night out with some guy, I figured he was her boyfriend or something. I was horribly wrong.

So this guy, he was a werewolf. Last night he'd transformed, and like every other month Deer, who was named Deer because she was a shapeshifter who could transform into a doe at will, would lead him on a merry chase through the woods so he wouldn't eat anybody. This was her sole job for the village, and obviously it was quite a dangerous one. When we arrived at a house on the edge of town Deer and he were wrapped in blankets and got in the car. We took the werewolf home, he didn't say anything that I recall, and Deer rode home with me and her brother.

I remember Deer was actually very sweet, we talked a lot (her brother liked to hide in his room, kinda like me I guess.) But other than that, I really don't remember much.

[Baffler]

Last night I dreamed I was a wizard in a fantasy world with technology roughly on par with the early Napoleonic wars. An evil necromancer had taken power a small kingdom neighboring the large one I lived in. The necromancer had conquered his small neighbors in a matter of weeks but wasn't doing anything at all right now, and the king of my nation decided he had to be removed before he could invade us. It would have to be done very quickly, so it was decided that a small force would be carried by air in secret to the necromancer's capital to open enough of a hole in the city's defenses to let the rest of the army in.

I was chosen as a part of the vanguard. Myself and about two dozen others were carried into the middle of the city (and somehow went unnoticed) by hot air balloon, and landed in an empty plaza. Our target was a giant tree that was linked magically to a section of the city walls, and would diffuse any attack against it. The perspective shifted to a bird's eye view, and I saw the immediate area. The city had Italian renaissance style architecture, and was split down the middle by a major river. Our target was inside of a small military base with low brick walls on three sides and the river on the fourth. Still in a bird's eye view, I saw a few of our guys rush up and stab the guards at the gate, then everyone came up and pushed them open. Inside was a small barracks, a pier on the river, an ammunition dump, a couple cannons, and the tree. Abandoning any pretense of stealth, I blasted the tree to bits with a giant fireball as the rest of the team commandeered the cannons and blasted the barracks with them (they were loaded and ready to fire for some reason.)

It went back to first person as reinforcements arrived by hot air balloon, and other balloons carrying troops started landing all throughout the city. I heard a massive explosion that must have been the main army outside blasting the vulnerable section of wall open. The garrison was caught completely by surprise, and with all of the city except the necromancer's fortress was under our control in a matter of hours. We started blasting it with cannons, but the shot just blew to pieces without even scratching the fortress. We tried to use the balloons to get on top of the walls, but they were all shot down before they got close. I remember thinking it was weird that we hadn't seen any zombies. Seconds later the gate opened and a giant horde of zombies started spilling out. It was briefly pretty awesome, but our musketeers had fired several volleys and it had barely left a dent in the horde.

The infantry had no chance in melee and started to retreat while what little cavalry we had charged the horde to buy time, but they had to break off quickly. Our plan was to run back to a nearby bridge across the river and use it as a choke point, but I never made it. big shards of ice (presumably fired by the necromancer) started to shoot into the backs of the retreating army. I turned around to try to hit him, but got hit in the back as soon as I stopped running. I landed face down and got hit again, and dreamed about being a doctor giving a blind child a checkup for the rest of the night.

[WillowLuman]

I'm so jealous of these cool dreams. My recent notable dreams are nightmares, like being a giant spider or getting chased by xenomorphs. And something about a giant orca-eating eagle.

[Eric Blank]

And something about a giant orca-eating eagle.

That's kinda cool at least.

[WillowLuman]

Well, I saw this fuckhueg bald eagle eat a baby orca, then I went to go tell people about this giant murderbird, and no one would believe me, and all evidence of the carnage was gone, so people thought I was a liar. It was very frustrating.

[Eric Blank]

Oh. That's not so cool. I was hoping it was a dream about being a giant eagle and eating whatever the fuck you feel like. Those are pretty good dreams.

[WillowLuman]

Only dream I've ever had about being something else that I can remember is the recent nightmare about turning into a giant spider.