Weird Dreams

[Phaezen]

I had one in my first year of college in which I left my dorm room at night to go for a walk. I started off over the grass and dried leaves, but as I walked, the leaves got crunchier and crunchier. I looked down, and I was walking on child-sized skulls.

If you don't mind, I will be stealing that for a Call of Cthulhu module.

As for me, I had a dream where I was in a steampunk syle city which had mouse sized portals to a hellish equivalent of the city. Normal sized people could use the portals, you just walked into them. Can't remember too many of the details though.

Phaezen

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If you don't mind, I will be stealing that for a Call of Cthulhu module.

Feel free! I already used it for a D&D adventure I ran about a month later.

Most people get scared by their nightmares, I basically recycle them into RW fiction or adventures.

The only nightmare I've had that scared the bechupus out of me was one involving a car wreck.

One day, I got in an accident in which I was the middle car of a multiple-car hit & run collision on a freeway. Due to some funny angles of impact, my Volvo actually got airborn for a second or 2 before landing in the trunk of the car in front of me.

My passenger and I were fine (Volvos ROCK!), and the police dropped me off at the Courthouse downtown (I had been headed there to file some papers for a client). However, on the way there, we had to go over an interchange from I-35 to US-75, which is one of those that arches high into the air while going from N-S to E-W... At its peak you actually look down on some fairly tall buildings.

And I hate heights.*

That night, and every night thereafter for at least a month, I had a nightmare about that accident occurring at the peak of that high, curving arch...and going over the side.

That meant that for at least a month, at some point in the night, I was going to wake up in a cold sweat with my pulse racing...

*Its not quite a phobia- of that I'm sure- but its not far from it. My fear of heights has actually caused at least one blackout.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Had another one last night.

I was in this hobby shop and there was a bin full of out of print older edition books. I had a pocketful of cash ($100, for me that's a lot of money) and there were two 1st Edition books that caught my eyes; one titled Zen Wizardry and another one that I couldn't remember the name of.

I saw a bow of what I thought was the Gazetteer of the Known Realms but it ended up being City State of the Invincible Overlord (3E). Well, I didn't want CSIO, I wanted the gazetteer.

Thing is when I have these dreams, I know I'm dreaming because I know theat there is no 1E book called Zen Wizardry.

I seem to have dreams about 1E books that never saw print. Perhaps I'm tapping into the memories of one of my doubles from a parallel earth where 1E never went out of print and is still in print along with other editions of D&D (i.e. 2E & 3E, since I dreamt about GotKW and CSIO).

 

[Phaezen]

Had an odd dream last night.

It sort of mixed "real-life" and FPS. I was part of the wh40k imperial guard protecting a small ranch from a necron attack, the moment fighting started the dream sort of went into a fps mode and I had outside knowledge of where to aim at the necrons to keep them down permanently.

One thing that I can still recall clearly was trying to figure out how to use looted necron weaponry, and heading in to the cave where they were spawning from.

 

[jonesy]

Most people get scared by their nightmares...

I don't have nightmares anymore. Rather, I have oddball dreams other people describe as nightmares when I relate them.

Like when I had a dream of a dog I used to have. In the dream we were playing and running around on a football field (really a grass field I lived next to at the time), and we had easily as much fun in the dream as we used to when he was alive. And people sigh wistfully and nod at this point. And then I tell them that he was in the dream in the same condition he was when I last saw him alive, sweating bullets, ghostly pale, bleeding from one eye, with a bad limp and a muddy shredded fur, and foam coming from the side of his mouth. And suddenly they think it was a nightmare. It wasn't.

 

[Demongirl]

I have this recurring dream where I'm the daughter of Sarah Conner (I've been having this dream since after seeing T1) and the end is days away. I live out my life as I would normally, but when the end comes, my flesh melts away and reveals the cyborg within.

At this point I'm terrified to think that I'm a cyborg and then for some reason I go off-line.When re-activated I become a killer for the machines.


I always wake up in a cold sweat right after having this dream. I think it reflects my fear of death and my subconscious dark side.

 

[Umbran]

Last night, my dreams could have been titled, "The Steampunk Adventures of John Adams".

 

[ssampier]

Some really neat dreams here.

I can't remember mine top-of-my-head. The worst dreams are the ones where something terrible is happening to me and I can't move or react. Obviously this probably due to the real-world sleep paralysis in REM sleep.

Still leaves me a bit shaken when I wake up.

 

[love.christine]

Giant Lobsters Eat People

I think I had the weirdest of all weird dreams last night. I wasn't even in it; dreamt from third person perspective (movie style).

There was a large meteor that impacted with an airplane; the meteor caused the water level in the oceans to rise tremendously causing 500 foot tall waves to impact with land. There were very few pockets of land that remained dry.

Over the course of millennia, lobsters gained in size until that had no natural predators, not even sharks could compete with them. Eventually they took to land and overthrew the humans that survived and remained.

The lobsters started to kill the humans and loved the taste, and continued their reign against the human species. Eventually, the humans were all eaten and nothing was left of our species except the few buildings that remained.

 

[ProfessorPain]

I had a dream that president Bush kept telling me I was fired.