I Keep My Visions To Myself (aka Dreams thread)

glennmagusharvey

Got to the final boss of this videogame (a metroidvania-type thing), but then lost. I reloaded and I had to redo this difficult platforming section in a cave that involved slowly climbing a shaft, jumping left on some falling rock platforms and enemies and grabbing ropes to the next screen up, then jumping right on some falling platforms and enemies and grabbing ropes to the next screen up, rinse and repeat. It was tedious and I kept falling, then at one point I held right and hugged the right wall and discovered a secret passage that I forgot I had taken before (maybe I had last played it when sleepy and forgot about this?) that was some sort of escape passage from the final boss room except this time I was taking it back in. I went right through the mostly horizontal hallway -- it was actually part of a network of shortcuts throughout the game -- and was about to get to the part of it that curved downward (and later, left) toward the huge final boss chamber, but I noticed a couple things:

1. The path beyond seemed to have a bunch of random stuff strewn everywhere. Like, everything from giant kitchen utensils to random broken objects. This was new, and seemed to imply that the final boss was had been throwing a hissy-fit since I last entered its chamber. Previously, this passage was clear of obstructions and was like a neat, sterile hallway/passage.
2. Upon seeing that stuff, I unexpectedly encountered a boss. For some reason, the boss made me think of Evil Madeline from Celeste (despite my never having played it), being a tiny sprite that moves fast. This boss had very fast shots, and basically just chased after me shooting. My sprite was also similarly small, making this boss room rather large compared to the size of the sprites.
3. The boss chamber was basically a horizontally wide room with just one main level, and a sub level that you could drop down into, as shown in the illustration below. (Dropping down isn't automatic but you have to press like down+jump or something.)

The game was some sort of sci-fi setting, maybe -- that green stuff on the left was some sort of pipe that had green ooze coming out of it or maybe some sort of weird green light. And the walls and ceilings were light grey steel/concrete. The graphical style of this game apparently had a hand-drawn map (but with definite and neat straight lines, unlike what I drew below) but seemed to have 2.5D graphics in-game.

The apparent inspirations of this might be:
* The Game Boy Castlevania games, for the tedious platforming sections and the ropes. The falling platforms didn't fall as fast, though; they and other platforms resembled the rocks from Super Mario World, including the sometimes falling rocks.
* Metroid II: Return of Samus. It has a final boss room with an escape hatch, but you don't go backwards into it that way. The normal (and only?) way to get into it is to go right and then drop down into it (though not quite the same way; it's much shorter compared to the game in the dream).
* Maybe 20XX considering its wide open rooms and light-blue/light-grey platform/wall blocks.
* The tiny sprites battling it out resembled Madeline from Celeste for some reason, again despite my never having played it.
* The 3D graphics used to create the broken objects, and the fact that they're giant, might have been inspired by the last area of Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial, where you fight your way through what's basically a giant dollhouse.

glennmagusharvey

oh oops i never pasted the image

glennmagusharvey

Oh I forgot to say, I woke up with the ending instrumental part (the E minor/phrygian part) of the Gundam: the Witch from Mercury opening theme in my head

lrdgck

Apparently, my brain's logic:

Planet of the Apes on TV + youtube video on pharmaceutical research = drugged-out chimpanzee on the loose in your own home

glennmagusharvey

There was this one dream I had about a game. I was playing a sci-fi game where this large building? cruise ship? spaceship? was being subjected to aliens that possessed humans, making some sort of zombie apocalypse type of thing but with aliens, and any rooms where the aliens were active glowed green. However, the aliens and alien-possessed humans, both of which would attack any remaining humans including the player character, didn't themselves glow green, which necessitated carrying and scavenging for flashlights (in addition to the usual ammunition) since the place was pretty dimly lit otherwise (possibly from being set at night). The intro segment of the game in my dream was an on-rails shooter that ended in an escape sequence with a boss, all in a futuristic space station like environment where the player is one of the people riding a transport cart on rails (imagine basically a big version of a roller coaster type of cart used in a theme park ride). This was probably inspired by me reading about Metroid Prime the night before this.

Then on another day I had a dream where I got an idea for a song.

Another time, I had a dream about interior design again. I was apparently moving into a new apartment. It had a vaguely T-shaped floor plan, where you entered at the "bottom" of the "T", and the main living space was at the "top". I was standing there, with my back toward the "top" wall, which had windows. There was one shelf-like structure on which you could put a cushion and make into a bed. The actual bedroom was off to the side, on the other wing of the T, so this basically meant that the apartment was a studio with an extra bedroom. The whole place had a fresh coat of white paint, albeit not the smoothest, because this was several floors (like 5 or so) up an old building in a city and the walls obviously had many coats of paint on them before. The floors were a light colored wood or wood-looking vinyl flooring. The place was quite well lit, and the large windows helped; they also looked out onto a fire escape. There was a kitchen, not clear where but maybe across from the shelf-bed. I had left a bunch of veggies on the countertop/stovetop there, and apparently the AC's drain pan had started dripping onto them.

Most recently, I had a dream where I was watching some YouTube video. The YouTuber who made the video had apparently been accused of killing two people but was exonerated. For some reason he decided to make this something of a narrative centerpiece of his channel, and started making videos showing how absurd it would be for him to have done it, and one of his videos involved attempting to deliver an egg from his kitchen to some other location in his town within one minute. This video was about a complex Rube-Goldberg-ish setup where he had to crack an egg and then cook it and then send it flying across a rail track in his home. To do this he apparently got himself a $600 (or $6000) "Lady Gaga Vortex Stove" which consisted of a large funnel (like 6 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, and placed in an isolated island of his home kitchen; imagine one of those charity coin vortex things in shopping malls) draining down to a compartment underneath, all of which was superheated; it apparently normally worked by letting foods run down the cone and regurgitating/re-erupting it back out of the funnel, but he put a slurry of raw egg into there which would cause it to be splattered to unsafe distances when it became cooked, and he somehow got a tiny bit of egg to fall into a small cup which then raced down a track.

glennmagusharvey

In one dream, I was playing a TTRPG and someone gave me a set of green dice, some of which were made of jade. I don't know why he did. The set included a d12 that was not shaped like a normal d12 but actually was like an irregularly-shaped flat carrying case that, if you could make it land on its side, you could use it as a d12. Very impractical. Also it had a d2 that was a flat object that depicted two people, and upon flipping it like a coin, it landed on the table and one of the heads broke off. I immediately apologized and gave the set back to him.

In another dream, I was playing a remake of Halloween Harry. (But not the 3D one.)

lrdgck

A TTRPG dream, nice.

Well, I just had the one where I was watching an X-Files episode. It was quite explicitly something that I watched, I remember wondering how did they pull off such special effects in a TV series in mid-Nineties. Apparently my brain didn't care about verisimilitude enough to fool me into thinking it's really an X-Files episode, but I was gullible enough anyway.

The monster of the week was a guy who could devour people with his dick.

glennmagusharvey

I was working with some people in a building. It was dark outside, like night. Actually, not just that; the stars were visible but closer to the horizon there were vaguely people-shaped animated outlines, albeit not moving in people ways, more like a trippy laser light show.

I looked outside, over to the horizon, and where I was looking, there was suddenly an animation of an elaborate seed against a square white background. It seemed that it was waiting for me specifically to watch it. After I watched this short animation, the sky completely cleared up and it turned out to be daylight outside.

Afterwards, I thought, it seemed that that was meant for me, but other people definitely saw it too. The two people who were next to me both thought it was strange that it was still nighttime until after I "cleared up" the sky.

glennmagusharvey

Florida Woman's Likeness Is Used For TTRPG Monster That Gets Famous As A Meme; Later Gets Arrested For Traffic Violation, Gets Famous For Insulting Governor While Doing So

glennmagusharvey

I apparently signed up for some sort of thing where I could get money doing random jobs. The first of these was to deliver and install some paver stones. I remember driving south and then turning right and immediately turning right onto a very small road parallel to the main road and then getting to a cordoned-off intersection where there were paver stones and a few were obviously missing.

Then I took a request to play some videogame music on the piano at someone's house. When I got there, I noticed that the spiders outside were fuzzy green balls with legs.

glennmagusharvey

The lab I was working in was just cleared out one day. Like, just cleared out all the furniture, lab benches and all. Bare concrete and drywall. It was particularly ironic that we had expanded it recently. I asked my colleagues and they alluded to political pressures.

Outside, on the rest of campus, there were apparently soldiers patrolling, for unclear but likely political reasons. Might be related to a few flagpoles that had been bent downwards.

glennmagusharvey

Ahh, a good substantial architecture dream.

Here is the building I dreamed about:
A five-story unit in a larger building. This unit was advertised (for rental or sale, not sure which) as a home with multiple bedrooms (four, based on my count after waking up).

The exterior architecture is that of a converted church. One can see stained-glass dormer windows poking out the sides of the building. Though it's a rather narrow and tall building. It is located in an urban area (probably New York City). The front door is strange...there is a set of concrete stairs that lead up from street level to a platform...but the door itself requires stepping down into the doorway from the raised concrete platform. It's as if someone was originally planning on getting rid of the door, but then later changed their mind, without getting rid of the concrete in front of it. So you now have some steps downward into the door.

The first floor, I don't remember much detail, but I think it had a living room and a kitchen. The part I do remember was that it had an under-stair storage closet, which was curious in that the floor used outdoor sidewalk pavers and basically looked like it was really meant to be an outdoor area but later enclosed. There was also at least one mysterious door at the far end of it, to which I did not have a key.

The second floor consisted entirely of one very long, very tall staircase, with at most one landing. Judging by its height, these stairs must have spanned some two stories of height. The stair steps and walls were white, and it was clean, but otherwise uninteresting. The light from the upper floors made the stairs brighter with increasing elevation. That said, given this layout of this very tall property unit, there is an in-unit elevator, fortunately.

The third floor contained two regular bedrooms (non-suite) and a bathroom, and probably also a common area besides the bedrooms. The floors were hardwood (or what looked like it). The bedrooms had conventional eight-foot ceilings with ceiling fans with lights; the light bulbs were a warm white color. At least one bedroom had a window to the street outside.

The fourth floor had a master suite.

The fifth floor also had a master suite. This master suite had a bathtub that was entirely lined with tile and was sunken, like three feet below the ground level of the rest of the bathroom.