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.