March 30 - Blur

Blur is right. I'm reaching the point where I remember a large chunk of dreams each night, but not really the larger context. If you follow along, you'll probably notice me talking about a dream but never really describing how it began, because beginnings are the worst for recall right now. The big problem I'm facing is remembering the context and timeframe. I'm not sure how linear time is in dreams anyway, but it was pretty hard for me to really remember how things fit together last night. I may end up having to swap out the idea of listing "dreams" and just start listing dream concepts some of the time.

Anyway.


Part 1: Flight

Don't remember a lot here. Good old "me flying". I was pretty high in the air. I was apparently flying instead of using these floating funny-shaped stepping stones (they look like your stereotypical ancient ruin). The flight mechanism this time was more of a passive floating type deal (almost like I'm in orbit) rather than the other mechanism I sometimes have where I rotate my arms in funny patterns. That kind is more controlled, whereas this is more like a bird: swooping and stuff.


Part 2: RPG

Remember those films and movies about wilderness survival? Where the protagonist is trapped without contact with anyone and has to live on their own wits in the wild?

Well imagine that. As a computer game (an RPG). Starring Indiana Jones.

Well, I say "Indiana Jones" in a rather loose sense. It was associated with him because the weapons in the game are a gun and a whip. Well, actually there's also a flaming club, not sure what that's about.

I seem to recall it being almost TBS-like. It's an RPG in the sense that you control one character and you make choices and stuff, but it's turn-based. There's resources like wood and food. I kindof think you start out with just your weapons, clothes and a cotton sheet. Trapped under a log that fell on your leg. But then you improve your clothes and sleeping gear and stuff, it's like an RPG in that sense. I kindof think that this wilderness survival thing is sortof the tack-on ending to a larger dream about a platforming game or something. More on that later. But in any case, you get to make a choice early on about whether or not you're going to last the full two weeks before getting rescued or if there's a random chance every day of people finding you.

I kindof think there's some other party members, trading and stuff because I remember this scene where apparently one of your (the protagonist's) friends is dying. This was toward the end. They're dying, and we perform some sort of black arts ritual that turns the protagonist into a mummy while saving the friend. Well, I say mummy becauses that's what it was in the dream. What it looked like was more like the Egyptian god Anubis wearing a really badass black cloak. Apparently the ritual involved a pillar of rock, a coffin, and some weird stuff. Anyway. Shortly afterwards, we get rescued (early). There's this reporter asking us if I'm aware that I'm a mummy (that's why I said mummy earlier).

More about the framing context: I kindof think this was a video game that was being played in a class in college. There was this class I had last semester that was really pathetic in the "why the heck are we doing this in a COLLEGE class? This is the sort of thing you do in middle school" sort of way. Apparently that class was a prerequisite for the Indiana Jones TBS/RPG wilderness survival video game class.

I should point out, of course, that while I'm supposedly playing a video game, there's no computers. Sometimes I'm the protagonist, sometimes I'm watching the protagonist. But I'm always doing it from inside the game world.

Also there's this whole spiel I had about repetitive gameplay, and a scene where we're apparently rafting down a river that's not supposed to exist while being chased by guys with guns. While on this raft we exhibit the old classic, complete lack of traction.

March 17 - Strong Bad

Well, this is late and I only remember the one dream now. It's nice and weird though. Sadly, this replaces today's dream that I unfortunately just forgot.


Dream #!: Strong Bad

This dream is loosely affiliated with Homestar Runner. Anyway, it starts out with Strong Bad going to an alternate universe or something where there's this giant car or something and he's driving over a bunch of people. There's some sort of resistence group that's against him driving over people, and then he drives up a ramp and does that move where you fly through the air in slow motion and then jump out at the apex of your arc. He whips out a hammer and does this whole slow-motion fight scene with everyone. At this point perspective shifts and I get a body. I fly up in the air and watch as lots of people show up and he starts being ridiculously outnumbered. At this point I'm like "holy cow, I'm flying, I must be dreaming." The dream turns lucid and I start commenting to myself about how this is a lucid dream. I say to myself that I should be able to control the dream. Then I wake up.

March 10 - Islam / Hospital

Dream #1: Islam and Politics

Sort of a religious dream, which is weird for me. It begins with me at home in the dark, in a sort of nod to the meta. I wake up, and apparently it’s time to go to school in the morning. I’m following my brother to school, only in my dream my brother isn’t my actual brother, it’s one of my friends from school. They’re running on ahead and I’m desperately trying to keep up. There’s this little interlude where I ask them about their dream, and we talk about how our dreams were about Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton holding an election at a street intersection. Apparently Barack Obama had the vote stolen from under him or something. Anyway, I’m following my brother/friend to school and he’s running on ahead, I yell that he knows I’m not an endurance runner like him, when suddenly he veers off to the side, and then I am suddenly running past my house again, and I go inside, and my parents are there and my brother is playing the piano. I go in and am eating breakfast, and I talk to my parents about church. Apparently it has since become Sunday. I’m apparently raised Muslim in the dream, and I ask whether or not it is typical to ask for forgiveness of transgressions on the “day of divinity”. Apparently it is, and it feels slightly weird to me because of my aforementioned Muslim upbringing. I start to wonder why the heck I dreamt about this practice in my dream, and then I wake up.


Dream #2: Paralysis and Hospital

Don’t remember how this dream started. At some point I find myself on a bus, and apparently I’m like a fugitive or something, because I end up having to use this paralytic on someone and take them onto the bus, but it backfires on me because the paralytic causes them to bleed whenever their muscles shift position and it gets gruesome pretty fast. So I have to take them to the hospital. We drive the bus to the hospital, but it’s not a normal hospital. We enter via the ER entrance and are told that they’ll be people to help carry the person in, but we find ourselves in one of those discount grocery stores with the concrete floor and stuff. We pass through that area and find ourselves in a high school gymnasium. We wander around for a while and get lost looking for the actual hospital area. We find ourselves in this really ruined tumble-down brick place, with pennies taped to the wall for some reason and floors that look like they might collapse at any moment. There’s some holes in the wall that look out onto some very foggy ruins, and I can fly. I fly around for a while and find out that the fog is caused essentially by hot water pipes leaking hot water into the cold winter air, and I kindof scald myself at one point, but that’s about as much of the dream as I remember.

Fragments - CDs / flying / teeth / friction / death

So this is sortof a dual-purpose feature. I'm gonna talk about minor elements in dreams that I don't remember the context of, and I'm gonna talk about (at least this once) various dreams signs I've got.

First off, the fragment. Don't really remember where this fits in, but I had this snippet of dream I just remembered from last night where there was this whole bunch of CDs and they kindof accidentally spilled off the back of my desk or something and they got all dirty and gunky and generally unusable. I kept finding them later in like the radiator and stuff, it was weird.

Now for some dream signs. People tell me certain ones are common, and I've got a few of those. Don't really remember enough dreams yet to start looking for more, but I do remember these.

1. Flying. It's weird. I've had tons of dreams where I can fly. It's always this sort of weird motion I make with my hands that allows me to essentially float everywhere I go without touching the ground. It's gotten so pervasive that sometimes when I wake up I have to go "oh, right, I can't actually fly in real life." So there's this sort of floaty thing, and also I can sot of gyrate my hands in a circle and adjust my height.
2. Teeth. This one's old, and I haven't gotten it in a while. But every now and then there'll be these dreams where by the end I have like a pocketful of bloody teeth that have come out. Gruesome.
3. And our good old friend, friction. I don't think that many people get dreams like this, but boy I have them all the time. I'm in some sort of ordinary environment, but I can't stop moving. I push off at one point and go flying crashing into the far wall. It's like I'm in null gravity in terms of motion only without the ability to go up or down.
4. Death. Sometimes I die in my dreams. No idea if it's actually what dying actually feels like, but it's this sort of concentrated intensity that serves as dream-pain, followed by blackness, so you really kindof tend to draw the conclusion. There was this one time where I died and then the dream kept on going with me as a ghost.
   

More on these types of dreams as they happen. Maybe.