What did you dream about last night?

[Dular]

I had a dream where I fought Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist.

It hurt so much... So I had to pull out a gun and shoot him.

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Melfice

Yeah, but see... your girlfriend most likely lives no more than an hour away.
I live 7 timezones away from her.

You can imagine just holding her is worth gold to me.

Mine is currently 1 timezone away, and although that'll change in short order, for now I can relate to your pain.

Anyway, I had an idea to spice the thread up a little. Why not describe your dream states a little?

For me, dreams are pretty uncommon. I'll go ahead and estimate perhaps 1-2 per month normally, with more during stressful times. These are, of course, counting the dreams I retain.

Also, with very few exceptions, my dreams are mostly black and white visuals. No smell, no sound, no feeling, no taste, and colour on few occasions. The most common colour I see is red, and I remember perhaps two dreams where I had multiple hues (never vivid).

Despite the lack of 'senses' in my dreams though, I am usually aware of 'input' that they would normally detect. Though I'll hear nothing, if someone screamed in my dream, I would know they did. I also know if I'm touched or injured in some way.

I'm always myself in dreams, and I'm always in first person. Preeeetty much like real life, but boring.

[Sir Pinkleton]

In my dreams I switch from first person to third person sometimes. Mostly it's just me being me, either being scared or doing something awesome, but every once in a while the "camera" will zoom in on something, like in a movie.

What's really annoying is that most of the time I have a sort of tunnel vision, meaning it's harder for me to see much of anything. Also, somewhat rarely (at least nowadays) I had trouble keeping my eyes open, so everything was dark-ish along with the tunnel vision. Not so fun. But for the most part, I have full vision, feeling, etc. It's just that I listen to my instincts in my dreams more than in real life, so I can't really comprehend everything I see.

Another strange thing is that I sometimes skip "scenes" of a dream. It's not that I forget later on, it's just that when, say, I'm riding in a caravan, we'll get to our destination quicker than had I been conscious through the whole thing. Almost as if I fell asleep in my dream.

I wish my dreams were much more common, I always seem to have such a good time in them.

[Aerozord]

I am almost never in first person, and sometimes not even in my dreams. My dreams also tend to be abit more structured then most peoples.

I actually view my dreams like TV. I find them entertaining and if I wake up in the middle of one I want to go back to sleep to see how it ends (which works if I can fall asleep quickly). In fact I have multiple dreams in a single night.

Oh and for some reasons I am more rested if I've dreamed, no idea why.

I also never have had a nightmare, but I will post what I consider the closest I have come to one abit later

[Zilla]

I have sometimes awesome dreams. There's a few I constantly remember cause they're so weird. A lot of my dreams star icons of some sort.

Here's one that I totally forgot until I searched my forums for the dreams I'd posted:

I just woke up not five minutes ago from the funniest dream I've ever had.

First, my friends and I go to some movie that is playing at the cheap theater here. I don't remember the movie because we left after less than 2 minutes. And so we're driving around, looking for something to do. I get into a debate about if you leave the theater of a movie in less than two minutes if you are entitled to asking for your money back.

We end up going see a comedy play about Hitler's daily life. The first part of the dream was watching this play, and it was hilarious. He went to a backyard barbeque, gave a speech, then had to buy carpet with his wife, and then he and Heinrich Himmler had this back and forth dialouge rife with all sorts of gags. Hitler acts like a normal guy for the most part, but there's one part in the carpet shopping scene where Himmler is like "Why don't you buy that one?" and Hitler goes "WHY DON'T WE KILL ALL THE JEWS!"

So the play concludes. Then we fast foreward to the next night, where DF and I are there again because the play was so funny, we had to see it twice. Then the manager pulls us backstage, tells us that almost all the original cast couldn't make it, and that we would have to fill in because we'd seen the play before. I was Hitler, DF was Himmler.

I remembered the first part of the play fine, the parts where he was just being a general nazi. Then came act 2, and I forgot exactly what was going on. Between scenes, DF and I had to go backstage and ask each other and other people what part came next.

We changed a lot of it up, like the part about Jews turned into Himmler going "I hate the jews..." and Hitler goes "SO DO I! YEAH!!!" *highfive* Also, there was this low-hanging plasma TV just behind the curtain, and in one scene where Hitler, Himmler, and his wife drive off in a limo, something is supposed to play on the TV. The curtains completely fell down on the stage though and the TV never worked, and we had to hide behind the collapsed curtain so the audience wouldn't see us.

Somehow, the interior of the carpet store got moved to backstage when we did it, instead of on the front like it should have been. While we were shopping for carpet, the wife wanted to buy a bed and there was some bedside inuendo, then Hitler goes "I thought we were looking for carpet." Everyone runs out front for some reason.

Then Hitler and Hitler's wife do a long Minnesota goodbye to Himmler (which for those of you who don't know, consists of a series of stages, resulting in the time between saying goodbye and actually leaving are about an hour, but this was condensed).

DF and I are asking each other about the next scene, the last one. The one where Hitler and Himmler are talking with each other until the end. While we're talking, backstage starts driving away, and we both shrug, like "Eh, I guess it's time to go home." Then the girl who played Hitler's wife is crying. I find out she was in the original cast. Internally, I'm like "Why didn't you tell us that? You could have helped us figure out what comes next?" but I just tell her that I got pulled from the audience, and that I've only seen the play once.

This is where I wake up and start laughing.

[Allycat]

I dreamed Prof. Dumbledore (yes Harry Potter) was the owner of McDOnalds, and McDonalds was running a campagne to kill all cat's.
I was one of them and we got locked up in fish tank thingies then th Cat King came and tried to save us but was owned away by a mean looking white cat.
In the end I escaped, saved the day and eventually got my self a fishburger.

The other day I fought against the ex-girlfriend of my boyfriend with an transformer.

And the day before I have been cutting and scooping out peoples hearts with scissors.
to save the day as usuall

- no everythings alright with my mind :\

[Nikose Tyris]

I dream in third person, but from cinematic camera angles. I am almost always Nikose, or else I dream that I'm me, in some relation to Nikose. I always retain the same core abilities as my Nikose e-persona, thankfully- I'd hate to get hurt in my dream and actually not heal in the dream from it. I don't like dying.

Also, I think I've come up with a bit of an explaination of why I have these NPF members in my dreams.

Mauve Mage represents light, Melfice is darkness,, Fenris is earth, and pyrosnine is fire.

Mesden grants me thought of water, and raiden is Thunder, Lightning and Wind, which is why I find myself in contest to him in the dream, since those are the qualities I most directly relate to myself.


Great, I dream in elemental descriptors, and I'm trying to interpret it now.

**Last night's dream**

Raiden and Nikose, because everyone else buggered off somewhere instantly >.>, (Thanks guys) Stood and talked for a good 20 minutes, before we went and got ice cream and talked. Naturally, these icons are only mental representations of people, and not them themselves.

Then my dream switched back away from NPF and into my old dream sequences, where I have my own representations of each of the elements, and elements of self. Then the damn blue girl came back.

[CrazyBen]

I had another wierd dream last night, which I just had to share-

Ok, to start things off, the entire US (possibly all of North America) has been quarantined because of some virus that acts like Ebola, except the infected start acting like zombies, except that instead of eating you, they're trying to smear infected fluids in your eyes and mouth to infect you. Obviusly, the lack of bodily damage makes sorting the uninfect from the carriers really hard.

So anyway, a rogue military unit has taken control of the local airport away from the WHO troops that were controlling it, and are selling rides out of the US for a huge price, one I couldn't afford. I decide to sneak into the airport through the sewer system, and quickly build your standard zombie-survival team (hacker, sniper, wildly-shooting guy), but all of them but me are between the ages of 10 and 14, making me the de facto leader, as well as the expert in both mechanical situations and the stealther. So, we fight our way through the sewers and the maintanence areas under the airport, battling plague zombies and the rogue military troops. When we finally get there, we hijack a cargo plane that happens to be loaded with 'Corn Puffs' brand cereal. We have a really intense sequence where I'm fueling the plane while the military attacks us from one side, and a huge horde of zombies attacks from the other. We finally get the plane off the ground and point it towards Europe, when I go to a view from the runway of the plane flying into the sunrise while some narrator explains that we made it safely to Europe and sold the plane's cargo to buy a house in the Swiss alps, and finishes by revealing that the infection had originally been caused by 'Corn Puffs' cereal, with the implication being that the loaded we escaped with spread the infection to the rest of the planet.

So, kind odd, huh?

[Zilla]

^ I wonder if it isn't that you have Nikose's power in your dream so much as Nikose's power is based on what you have in your dreams?

Last night I dreamed I was Fujiko Mine (from Lupin III) working at Gamestop. No idea why. I talked with people about Guitar Hero, but I was haughty like Fujiko usually is. I have been watching Lupin III lately, so I know where that came from. That and I'm hoping to work at Gamestop so I know where that came from.

[Demetrius]

My dreams are always more vivid than reality, some often in the sense of a Frank Miller movie, everything is more than it is. I am myself only some of the time, often I will jump consciousnesses and take a ride in the psyche of someone else, allowing my dream to go off on many strange tangents. When dreaming, I'm aware that I am dreaming and can usually wake myself up, get some water and go back to sleep, jumping back into the dream where I left off. As for nightmares, well lets just say that everything being more vivid really sucks.