Topic: Have any crazy unique dreams?

[VANGUARD]

We tend to believe that the last thing or the biggest thing you think about is what you dream about.

Okay, I saw my PS3 games, thought about what I would want to play, and what may never be played again. Mostly COD.

My dream last night consists of my mom playing "Midnight Club", a game I do own on the PS3. She was racing at a good 200 or 300 mph (it's a dream remember) along the north west part of L.A.
Then she dropped somewhere in a building. No longer with a car, but now a Pyro. The racers, one being a Magnum, one being a Phoenix, and the other; not sure if that was a BP or a phoenix, or what.

But they had "revive" above them, something you'd see in Call of Duty World at War or Black Ops.
So that's three games.
then she enters a room, and collects large yellow smooth-like balls. a door opens. Best I can think of is "Rock-n-diamonds", a game found on Linux.

Four games. all tied together. I only played zombies last night. I don't get it...

[Kaiaatzl]

We tend to believe that the last thing or the biggest thing you think about is what you dream about.

I don't.  I get epic nightmares that try to tell a story about... anything or nothing in particular, really.  Most of the time it makes no sense.  When it does make sense it's awesome.  Even when it doesn't make sense it's awesome a lot.  I don't have very many dreams about real-life problems.  Only fantasy-world problems .
Dreams are fun.  But why do they always end just before I find out how the story ends?  I always have to write it later and come up with an ending myself .  Well, myconsciousself I guess.  Sometimes I feel like I'm plaigarising someone; but I'm really just plaigarising me.

The point is, dreams are harmless, and they're only relevant if you decide to make them so.  Especially if you liked it, you don't need to overanalyze it.  Only enjoy it.

[VANGUARD]

I don't always, but sometimes I do. I'm not here to analyze dreams. I found it weird to have a combo pack of a dream. It wasn't just Call of Duty, or Descent. It was more.

[Kaiaatzl]

I get that all the time.
I had one dream that combined the universes of Retrovirus, Descent, Miner Wars, Doctor Who, and... several others I forget.  And it made sense as a story.  Very strange.

If you have strange dreams you must learn to love the strange!  I will teach you, but it will not be an easy road .

[VANGUARD]

I'm strange awake and asleep. I can go against the norm.

[Scyphi]

I get hybrid dreams all the time. Once I had a dream that was a mix of Darkwing Duck, Sonic the Hedgehog, and something else that was more obscure...something sci-fi-y...I forget what, actually. It's been a little while since I had that dream...

Anyway, funnily enough, I don't get many Descent-related dreams, and when I do, it rarely involves flying a Pyro around and blowing stuff up. In fact, Pyros are a rare feature for reasons I cannot fully explain. It's actually a bit puzzling and a little frustrating. If I'm going to have a Descent-related dream, flying a Pyro ought to be a must (just like when I'm going to have  a Stargate dream, it ought to feature the Stargate...but they rarely ever do).

In fact, come to think of it, the closest I can recall ever coming to that, was a Descent-ish dream I had once that pretty much involved flying around and blowing up rogue robots...but instead of a Pyro, I was using a jetpack-type thing that could pretty much do anything a Pyro could do while still not being a Pyro.

[Kaiaatzl]

Headbash?
Descent dreams with pyros are kind of disappointing.  All my other dreams are so much cooler.
Like the one about the alien invasion in the arctic ocean that I based a question on in my strangeness survey because it was the previous night and I couldn't think of anything better...

[Matthew]

I don't usually have dreams (that I can remember), but when I do they're usually on track to becoming epic stories, but end far too soon. Then I spend the next 2 hours wishing I could go back to my dream. Bonus points if the subject of my awakening is my alarm clock.

[Scyphi]

Whoo, I know that feeling too. The best dreams are always the ones you don't get to complete.

Although, at the same time, they're usually the ones you're more likely to remember.

[-<WillyP>-]

I have to agree with IHH. It's like watching an awesome movie, and the ending is 'part two coming soon'... but it never does.

[TechPro]

Some of my dreams include getting a huge pay bonus (which is the used to upgrade/expand/customize my home) followed by new assignments to pilot a stealthy a high speed (multi-Mach) craft around the world and to other planets...

[VANGUARD]

how does one know a dream is over? credits?

I sort of get it though. I think I had two dreams that ended. made up the name some in real life after the dream. it consists of me getting some bottle or spray, Hydoxenox. I then had to bring it to the middle of an empty stadium, in the dark. I then dreamt it was over. I was too late, and that my life or others were over. a good spooky end to a movie/story.

another was in the woods, all by myself. it felt over.

[Kaiaatzl]

It's generally over when you wake up .

[Scyphi]

I think I actually did have a dream once that did have literal credits at the end. I wish I could remember more about it, I'd tell it t' y'all.

Usually I consider my dreams ended when they reach some sort of plausible conclusion, but they rarely reach that point (Or I just don't remember them enough to know if they had an end or not). The best example I can remember was this dream in which the gravity within my hometown started acting all wonky due to some sort of fluctuation in the earth's core, and random things (which, ironically enough, were destructive in some shape or form, like gasoline tanker) would suddenly take flight, only to come crashing back down at random somewhere within town. Long story short, the problem eventually fixed itself when one of these objects flying and then crashing around eventually caused an explosion large enough and deep enough to fix the fluctuation in the planet's core, and gravity was properly restored with, miraculously, no one hurt (the town was another story, though), which is about as conclusion you can get for a dream. It then had a brief epilogue where one object that got sent flying was late in coming down, and belated came crashing down somewhere off the coast of California. After that, my mind went to other subjects that were unrelated to that dream, so I consider that dream having reached a tangible conclusion.

[Scyphi]

Double post, I know, but since we're discussing crazy unique dreams, and the subject of Descent-related dreams has already come up once before...

I had a dream last night where I was playing a particularly difficult D1 level. My mind wants to tell me it was an actual, existing, custom level that someone made over the years, but in retrospect, the design of the level is not familiar to me at all, and so I doubt this to be true. Eventually, though, the dream got the point where I was no longer just playing the level in a game, but was actually in it, going through the level in standard Descent-style, except now with the added stakes that this was, as far as my dream was concerned, for real. Taking this in stride, I proceed on through the level.

Then at some point, the objectives change from the routine clear-mine-of-enemies-then-destroy-reactor-and-hightail-it-out-of-there to attempting to determine how the virus infection of the mine took place anyway, leading to digging deeper into the mine, rooting through records, etc. It is also established that there are people, lots of people of all sorts, that were in the mine when it succumbed to infection, some of which can be rescued, or are already dead. Which is when the dream starts taking a kind of supernatural theme when myself and a random and unknown cohort (who just appears along the way and teams up with me) find a meeting room where a meeting had been taking place when the infection took place, and the occupants dead, but with no visible harm to them. There is some speculation between me and the cohort as to what might have done them in.

What happens next isn't exactly clear to me, partly because of fuzzy memory, and partly because it didn't make sense, or wasn't fully explained in-dream. But suddenly the subject of ghosts comes up, and suddenly we start finding evidence of such ghosts in the same meeting room. Then something one of us does suddenly causes the ghosts to appear in throngs, although they are docile, and seemingly unaware of our presence. I remember then turning to look out the meeting room's door (one of those office doors with the rectangular windows) into the corridor beyond, and see the events that took place initially at the outbreak of the virus being reenacted out just as the infected robots start coming for the people wandering about in the corridor outside, and a commotion takes place. I then remember turning away from the window partly out of respect for the people beyond I knew had died and partly out of fear for what I'd see, and was just looking back out into the room, probably looking for my unknown cohort, when I feel a warm pressure on one shoulder. I'm just in the middle of realizing that it's the reassuring hand of a ghost and I'm just about to turn around and face it, when...

"Good morning! This NPR News, morning edition..."

...my alarm clock goes off, waking me up.