The Dreams Thread

[MadeOfMilk]

Mod edit: adjusted thread title to be about all dreams, not just weird ones. (Then again, aren't dreams nearly always weird anyway? Eh. We like it better this way.)

Exactly what it says on the tin: Post weird dreams you've had. I'll start off with one I just had last night:

The first part of the dream was about a territory dispute in Scandinavia as viewed from a map. Basically, Sweden was upset that Norway was "hogging all the land" (despite Sweden being the largest non-Greenland Scandinavian country IRL) so they stole some land from Norway. Denmark and Iceland soon got upset at Sweden's actions because Sweden was taking up valuable land that could've gone to their tiny-ass countries. Thus, Denmark and Iceland got dragged into combating Sweden's land-stealing bullshit. Also Sweden apparently stole some land from Finland but nobody cared enough about that.

The second part was... strange. I was at my parent's house and noticed a giant metal box attached to one side of my parent's fireplace. I found out that the box was to cover up plugs (that looked like Ethernet jacks for some reason) and pipes meant to be used for some type of "air therapy" that was apparently popular in the 1940s and 50s. This "air therapy" was used for patients with milder forms of generalized anxiety disorder that let them get treatment at home without having to be institutionalized. It worked by plugging an oxygen mask into one of the ports before flicking a switch, simple as that. Supposedly, this was common enough that every single home built during that time had those installed (my parent's house wasn't even built until the late 90's).

The third part's where it just segued into a nightmare. After learning about the air therapy ports this guy showed up to the house for dinner. Didn't take long for him to reveal he was some sort of monster who ate his dinner hosts in a gory manner if he wasn't satisfied with their hospitality. Well, monster dude didn't like the dinner I made for him, so I ran up to my room, grabbed a few things (I remember grabbing a blanket and my childhood stuffed parrot), and locked myself in the bathroom. I then remembered the bathroom key my parents always kept on top of the door, so I briefly unlocked the door so I could snag the key and make sure the monster dude couldn't get me. It wasn't until then that I forgot to bring my phone into the bathroom, and after kicking myself for a bit I just decided to wait it out until monster guy got bored and left, which he eventually did.

[wingedcatgirl]

Here's a dream I had the other night:

was flying around a hotel tower (not murderfree, just a random hotel)
this was unusual enough for someone to make a "when pigs fly" joke and I was like "yeah! this person gets it!" ...also apparently I was in some way a pig.
at some point I flew around a room that was an ancient Egyptian pyramid filled with pharaohs and stuff and I was like "this is very cool but these are people and I need to respect that"
eventually I got in a small and uncomfortable elevator to go down to the lobby. my sibling was there too like "oh wait I also need to go down" so I tried to stop the elevator but failed.
the lobby was my grandma's (mom's mom) house, and waiting for me were my therapist (who I was expecting) and my dad (who I was not). before I started talking to them I decided to go into the kitchen and get a glass of water.
my grandma was using all the sinks (of which there were at least eight) to make. something. so I was kinda annoyed because this made getting water very difficult. worse, when I finally got the water, it was actually mud, which I didn't notice until after drinking it and filling my mouth with gross grit. and that was unpleasant enough to jolt me awake

[Zanreo]

I was playing a game that I think was a sequel of sorts to Yakuza: Like a Dragon? I don't remember the characters and don't actually think they were the same, but I think I knew it as one in the dream, and it had very similar gameplay aside from the fights also having some of the old, non-turnbased mechanics. Anyway, I was going somewhere on the map marked "Inventory", going up in an elevator. Shortly after I got to a dungeon where my one opponent was a boxer with lots of HP... halfways through the fight it seemed like his HP wouldn't go down anymore, but then one of my team members suddenly turned into a small plant of some kind with small pale pink flowers. Then, after the fight, I opened the menu and the only team member actually showing at this screen was the plant, in the 2nd slot.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

This one I had back in high school or maybe a bit before, but anyway...

I had one dream where Bill Cosby was in a giant robot suit and he fought this giant space slug and won. I'm sure that would be a better film than Leonard Part 6.

[wingedcatgirl]

I was once again back in my high school for some reason, though I have this certainty that the reason wasn't actually to attend (I actively remembered that I'm 30 at some point)

There was something about body-swapping to avoid aging, I got a really bad nosebleed, and Ikei was there

that's all I really remember, most of the details have super faded by now

[AyyBee121]

I had a dream last night where I made a game where Bratty and Catty from Undertale kill each other. I'm pretty sure it was made in Bitsy Game Maker. The same dream also involved some sort of CGI animation of Coach Z and Strong Bad from Homestar Runner rapping?

[Kennifer]

I do not remember the details but it involved something about trying to predict what Google Translate would turn some phrase into and part of it was "this part will probably turn into yellow".

I blame Zanreo for this.

[Zanreo]

Dream dump time:

• I decided to play Neopets again after many years, mainly to look around for nostalgia's sake. What I remember is one shop sold a book referencing Zero Wing (with an obvious knockoff CATS on the cover), and there was also a shop where you could buy avatars with NP. I also decided to play some games, which had gotten slightly upgraded graphics.
  
  Then later in the dream, I had to write a presentation about (something I don't remember) throughout history, but it was unclear if I had to write about EVERYTHING or just one part of it. Shortly after, I was going to a new school/college? I entered the pretentation room and tried finding a good place to sit where I'd have room for my laptop, but had trouble finding one. The presentation showed images from some (probably made-up) anime.
  
  
• I watched a Smash Bros. reveal trailer, showing off a lot of new DLC characters at once! They included SCOUT from Murder by Numbers, Cookie Monster, Phoenix Wright and Honor Mizrahi (latter also from Murder by Numbers) seeming to share a slot for some reason, and a character with 8 different characters for skins Bowser Jr.-style, referred to something like "Cartoon Crew", which consisted of mainly Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote, along with a few others like Fred Flintstone (insert GRAND DAD joke here). Shortly before the trailer ended, it also showed a sprite of Ichiban Kasuga driving by in a car (kinda similar to the business management minigame) but it was unclear if he was a new fighter or not.
  
  And then, I was playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons again! The first thing I noticed was the island looked like a mess, not unexpectedly, except for the fact that there were a lot of holes in the ground. It started with my character waking up with the "bedhead" hairstyle (and for some reason her hair was blue instead of the purple I set it as). I noticed a bunch of new villagers, including a character my dream-brain must have made up, only thing I remember is they were dark green, possibly a duck, and their name started with M. I also saw Gracie, and when talking to her she said something about "I should have met her at (specific time) earlier". Then, all my villagers seemed to crowd around in the same place I was, and all of them were outside.
  
  There was also a part where I was in Mario Kart but I sadly don't remember much from that so let's move on. I was at my dad's house, and found out about this new secret place in the basement that I somehow didn't know about before this? There were various events going on near this, including a tattoo stand (for actual tattoos) and I decided to get a small tattoo of some character I don't remember? I considered getting more but didn't see any available designs I liked.
  

[MadeOfMilk]

Copy/pasting this Murderverse-related dream from Discord:

Basically [Hercules] owned an abandoned mansion that also looked like an abandoned asylum (taking cues from TM Awe, I see) and he lured this random person in by buying weed from them. It then lead to a Most Dangerous Game type of situation where Hercules chased the around the house/asylum with a gun. He shot them and I was treated to a lovely decomposition montage.

[Kennifer]

Dream from a few nights ago:

For some reason a bunch of us were doing this Murdergame LARP thing, which kicked off when someone told me all my murdergame characters had been killed. But this didn't stick because whoever killed Vriska chopped her into 12 pieces and it was supposed to have been 8 because, well, Vriska. Anyway we were in the LARP thing and had gotten down to 7 players, of which my character was one. (I do not think we were playing characters who have ever even existed in murdergames). And I was trying so hard NOT to look sus though instead of drinking wine a la Kennifer in YFF1, I was drinking milk. And people started voting for me because... I was drinking milk. Until the host pointed out that "okay it's not time for voting yet". So we were going to do a trial and apparently my execution was... being mummified alive or something? (which in LARP form was just... wrapping my arms with gauze bandages or something.) But then we had to cut the LARP short temporarily because there was a housewarming party for someone we knew sorta. So we went to this... mansion he had for some reason and our gift was these big blocks that spelled out his name. Also it turned out that he was learning some random German dialect despite his not being able to spell in English. Anyway after this we'd forgotten about the execution and there was going to be a challenge, which was "memorize this script and shoot an infomercial in one shot", until someone else (who I think was probably supposed to be Florien) suggested we just sing this obscure old war song called "She's Ripping Grey" instead.


Last night dreams I do not remember as well, although one of them involved... poisoned golf balls. Somehow. And a scratch off lottery ticket. The other involved this weird paper thin roll-out keyboard that went vertically instead of horizontally and had an entire row of S's, and I was using it to type "THE INFECTION SPREADS".

[josh6243]

One time, I dreamt that my mother's dog Wesley had passed away. It felt so real that I called up my mom the following morning and she assured me that Wesley was still alive. I know that Wesley is around 14 years old. His body is giving out on him, so I know that he will croak some day. I can feel it in my bones. Could that be the reason why I had that dream in the first place? Do I really miss Wesley that much?

[AyyBee121]

This one was last night. So there was this convenience store where a youtuber who both was and wasn't James from Nitro Rad depending on the moment, reviewed games. He apparently hailed from Europe (James is Canadian), and the two games I remember him reviewing included a game called "Bug!", which was very similar to a game James actually reviewed, called Zapper. The other game he reviewed was a game I came ups with in the dream, which was heavily inspired my Mortal Kombat. The roaster included a cobra woman, an Australian hunter who I remember trying to not make too stereotypical, and a gaudily-colored ninja who was apparently a parody of other Mortal Kombat derivatives.

[Kennifer]

I had two interesting dreams last night!

In the first one I was hanging out with a guy I was friends with playing video games and I kept doing... Very badly. And I told him I was not good at this. So he... turned me into some teenage guy named Carson and sent me to school. Like to a literal school classroom. And then I couldn't find my seat and it didn't go well, so my friend turned me into this blonde woman, and I kept having to act out badly translated scripts of... I don't even know what they were to begin with but I'm pretty sure one of them started out as a scene from Back to the Future once upon a time before it got both backstroked and google translated.

The second one involved me snuggling with this incredibly CUTE little orange-and-white kitten named "Treasure", who was named that because hugging him counted as opening a loot box and it spawned a bunch more kittens and also gave me money.

[KungFuCutbug]

last night I had a dream I was at a cosplay convention with a bunch of people, a lot of whom I recognized from the murderverse discord

most of us were in Homestuck-related outfits for some reason? like I remember the person I thought was Knife and the person I thought was Zan wearing heavily Prospit-themed outfits while I was wearing a Derse-inspired one, and there were trolls and godtiers ahoy

I don't really remember much after that, except we all went on a foot race in the mall and I managed to do a 7-page MUDAMUDAMUDA to someone on an escalator before I woke up

[MadeOfMilk]

I had a dream that a bunch of us were playing a murdergame... as ourselves. Not self-inserts, deadass ourselves. Anyway, one infamous player got mad at Cutbug for cracking jokes because.... I dunno, killjoy? I don't remember much, but I do remember seeing this exact meme at the end:

[AyyBee121]

I had a dream last night with Ena in it. Instead of living in a surreal retro-inspired world, the Ena in my dream lived in a high fantasy world where the world looked very different, but the regions of this world were named after real world locations (which was apparently supposed to be an inversion of a trope where fantasy worlds had the same world map as the real world, but had fantasy names, which isn't really a thing outside of, like, Red Earth, and even then Red Earth's world is earth, just post-apocalyptic). Ena had a father in this dream, who I believe was a viking-esque warrior of some kind, and also looked like a regular human? Also, Ena eventually got a meaningful haircut and put her hair in a ponytail. Then I realized that some of the earlier scenes with Ena in them showed Ena as a regular human, so my brain showed me corrected versions of them around the time I woke up.

[Kennifer]

here is last night's HELL DREAM.

It started out I was answering trivia questions that appeared on this big screen thing. I didn't find out if my answers were right or wrong immediately but there was some penalty for too many wrong answers that I didn't know yet. Apparently "too many" was like... 3 or 4, because the screen changed to this BSOD lookin thing that said "TOO MANY WRONG ANSWERS, YOU ARE GOING TO HELL" or something along those lines. And I was immediately transported to... okay I didn't know where but it just looked like some ordinary town. And I got on this bus with other people (who had presumably also fucked up on the trivia thing) and we went through this car wash with a fire-and-brimstone special effect at the beginning and came out in... still this ordinary town. And it was kinda chilly there so I was wondering if they'd meant it was Hell, Michigan instead of, you know, actual Hell. Anyway we got off the bus in this parking lot and I went over to this really cool souped up black truck that had all my stuff in it and realized this was MY truck now. So I started to get in to try and figure out where I was supposed to drive it but there was a guy in the driver's seat who was... my guide or something? And he started driving and was talking to me and seemed really excited like "OH BOY A NEW SOUL IS HERE!" or something and I told him that this place actually seemed really nice for Hell, and he said don't worry it gets really, REALLY boring after 300+ years and I was like "...oh fuck" and then I woke up.

[wingedcatgirl]

was playing panel de pon and noticed some menu options I'd never seen before labeled "piracy" and "real piracy"
thought "well huh wonder what that's about, this is a pirated copy after all" (apparently I was playing on pc rather than switch online) so I clicked them
"piracy" turned out to be a short screen full of untranslated text presumably about how piracy is bad and here's what you can do about it
"real piracy" went into this elaborate cutscene that I can't remember anything about but felt like it was just the same but more dramatic
I was like "it's neat how this is only in the Japanese release unless you use a cheat code to restore the Japanese menu"
and suddenly I was doing exactly that in the English release of panel de pon (note: no I do not mean Tetris attack, I mean the English release of panel de pon)
at this point I was vaguely aware that the previous events were a dream but I was like "lol sure let's see what my brain produces" so I went into the piracy screen
the game went into the cutscene and then made a whole bunch of creepy glitchy noise, to which I was like "haha whoops I jumpscared myself"

[madface7]

I hope you've learned your lesson, Sylvi: piracy isn't just a dream.

[wingedcatgirl]

insert mario party Piracy Is No Party screen here

[Kennifer]

I'm not sure I wanna know what the hell (ha ha) happened to get that dream. Probably a mix of several murdergame ideas, talk on Discord about driving, and... yeah I got nothing for the "why does actual Hell look like a random-ass town that happens to be boring as fuck" part.

It was kinda funny though.

[MadeOfMilk]

I think you actually went to Hell, Michigan lol

[Kennifer]

Lol probably, the weather was very Michigan-like. And I imagine it would probably get boring spending a few centuries there.

[josh6243]

Recently, I dreamt that I went to my grandmother's house, only to see her deceased significant other give me a present before vanishing into nothing. Did I miss him or something?

[Kennifer]

Last night I dreamed I woke up to a bunch of murdergame-related dms, including one that was supposed to be a death pm but nowhere in the message did it outright say I died and it was just flowery prose about my character thinking about childhood memories with her brother (and I had never even specified if the character had any siblings so that was really random) and I only knew I was supposed to be dead when I got one with my character's summary including "died night (whatever night it was supposed to be) of gas inhalation" or something.