The dream thread

[Shm Jay]

And how would you even pronunce a coarticulated bilabial trill-nasal, or a coarticulated lateral retroflex approximant-alveolar flap.

This would be the 28th century Polish of the descendants of those 24th century Poles who foodled around with genetic engineering once the techniques were perfected and so who have two mouths.

[Shm Jay]

I dreamt I was reading the King James Bible of all things and there was a verse in Exodus or Deuteronomy where the Lord said "Bring me two young starbucks", and the word was glossed as "a kind of pigeon".

[Herr Dunkel]

I dreamt I was gay.
It ended with me suffocating in black bodybuilders with oiled bodies.

[Bob Johnson]

A documentary about WW2; a German submarine (shaped something like Sputnik but with 8 antennae and a more eyeball-ish looking sphere) was terrorizing the US from the air, dropping bombs powerful enough to destroy cities and leave lava fountains behind. The camera looked at various things; a sub-basement bunker crammed full of refugees being assaulted by a gas-grenade-launcher-wielding strike force; the main viewpoint character's travels from Georgia to Buffalo (which one wasn't made clear) to escape the submarine's bombing; two rebels being shoved up against a fence and shot at, one dying and the other playing dead, feeling the first grow cold...

What the hell, brain.

[Earthling]

I dreamed that Poland was an island north of Europe, and just to the east of it was another island country called Warsaw. And both countries had large colonies on large islands in the Atlantic Ocean, which was shaped slightly differently...so the world looked like this:



Those colonies were captured during World War II, BTW.

[Herr Dunkel]

I dreamed that Poland was an island north of Europe, and just to the east of it was another island country called Warsaw. And both countries had large colonies on large islands in the Atlantic Ocean, which was shaped slightly differently...so the world looked like this:



Those colonies were captured during World War II, BTW.

And what be the capital of Warsaw?

[Das Baron]

I dreamed that an alien (the stereotypical grey alien) fell through my skylight (my apartment doesn't have a skylight) and broke its neck upon impact. Another alien immediately ran up to it, but stopped when it saw me. In my mind, while I was dreaming, it was absolutely imperative that I warned my fiancee that there were aliens in the apartment, and I woke up in the middle of yelling for her. It came out as "waaaaaJennnaaaaaaaahhhliensaaaaaJennnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaa".

[Shm Jay]

So how did your fiancée react to this cry? Did you tell her your dream? And what did she say?

[Das Baron]

She thought it was hilarious afterwards when I told her what the reason was, but at the moment she was pissed I woke her up. Kind of an anticlimactic ending.

[Earthling]

And what be the capital of Warsaw?

I don't know. My head didn't tell me.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

I had a dream where I was watching someone else play Minecraft, but I was actually in the world with them, only intangible or something, so I didn't need to worry about the monsters. The other person was exploring a cave, which was full of spiders (both regular and cave forms), though the spiders looked a lot more realistic. At one point the other person ran by another room that was full of spiders when I looked in it, I asked him? her? if they were going to plug up that cave so the spiders wouldn't get out, but I don't think they heard me. Then they came into a huge cave that looked like someone had carved out a gigantic box out of the ground, sort of like a massive chunk error or something, but it was still underground and the bottom bedrock layer was still there. The other person misjudged something and then fell into the cave and presumably died. I then pulled out a box of some sort and hopped on it like it was a broomstick or something, and glided down to the bottom on it (and bounced off of the wall once or twice) before landing in some water that had spilled down from a waterfall.

Then I was rudely awakened.

[Herr Dunkel]

Holy crap I dreamt I was Baba Wawa

[Soap]

I dreamed I moved back into a house I lived in 6 years or so ago, but there were lots of other people in there with me, and it was in much worse shape, and all in all it was a terrible way to live. I woke up thankful I still have a room to myself and a luxurious bed.

[sirred]

The dream began at my childhood home where my brother and I saw a meteor fall. It was not really a meteor. One of our neighbors who in this reality was apparently one of my brother's ex-roommates, had built an aircraft which most resembled a hot-air balloon. This is interesting as he is not an engineer. He offered us a ride. I declined and my brother accepted. We discussed the legality of operating an aircraft in the city limits. I also suggested that they bring oxygen with them in case they went to 40000 feet. The neighbor declined on the grounds that it was unlawful for him to purchase oxygen as he had been addicted to it. I went inside and drank coffee. Without any real transition that I recall, I and my family were driving in the desert. We soon pulled into a rest stop. Three fire trucks pulled up and the men declared my brother under arrest, because as we all know firemen make arrests. I asked them what for and they said they'd make something up. Back at the house, for some reason, I told them to release my brother. They refused so I beat them up. The last one said it was out of their hands. Somehow I knew that their leader was in my brother's old bedroom and that said leader was supernatural. I opened the door and was attached by spiders. The spiders were stuffed props. I guess the dream blew its special effects budget on the aircraft. Anyway, I beat up the spiders and called to my brother to tell him that the charges were dropped. He told me not to bother him as he was in the bathroom. Later we went to a flea market where most of the items were two or three VHS per table. I saw some sheet music (which I can't read) and considering doing a stage play biopic of the Nuge (whom I don't listen to). After looking at a couple more tables, the dream ended.

[Xephyr]

Eddy shot me. With a gun.

[bulbaquil]

I was reading some sort of prequel to The Lord of the Rings. No, not The Hobbit, this prequel took place something like 20,000 years beforehand and the appendix in the back listed a crapload of ages that preceded the "First" Age. I think there was some influence of Zelda: Skyward Sword on this dream, but it escapes me; I've been awake for too long now.

Re-reading this post, it now occurs to me where I was reading it - in a high school building, after one of those annoying untimed standardized tests they give you the whole school day to complete but you're done by 10:00. This despite my having been graduated from high school for quite some time.

[alice]

I dreamed I had just bought a ground-floor flat, and I went around there to check it out. One of the tenants had great piles of dust in his room which buried his suitcase.

[Soap]

Gingrich invaded an island that I'd been using as a stopover on my way to work since it was about halfway. Somehow he made it snow all over the island, but nowhere else(it's been a very warm and dry December here so far, and nowhere near me has snow cover). I remember being there when he started the invasion and that he had security cameras set up (but maybe at least one of those security cameras just belonged to a gas station on the island). I was upset at losing the island, but I knew that the ones who had lost the most were the people who lived on the island full time, one of which was a friend of mine.

[dunomapuka]

I went to the only surviving business from Dutch New Amsterdam, a sandwich shop called Kerguelen's. They sold big, greasy sandwiches. The proprietor's wife sat inside smoking a cigarette, which in NY is illegal and almost unheard-of in a place that serves food, but I figured they owned the place so they could do as they pleased.

[Aurora Rossa]

As some people here may have heard, I am working on going vegetarian and have pretty much eliminated meat from my diet weeks ago. But now that I have committed myself to that path, I have been having some dreams these past few days in which I relapse to eating meat. Nothing really weird or interesting, I just catch myself in the dream eating fried chicken or a piece of steak and feeling disappointed that I gave into temptation.

[Izambri]

Today I remember two dreams:

I was stalking a big mammoth when the animal began to run across a stream bed full of pebbles and surrounded by fir trees, and it killed a guy squashing his head, who was a real mammoth hunter, because I was a kind of time-traveler or something similar dressed as a mammoth hunter and exploring that world/era.

In the second I was cleaning a toilet bowl the size of a car. The inner hollow-ring (I dunno its name: from which water falls into the bowl) was... too brown, to say it softly. And I was cleaning it more and more insistently when someone famous (it could be Kafka) entered the bathroom and began to talk about philosophy. The bathroom, by the way, was very modernista (Catalan version of Art Nouveau / Jugendstil).

[Herr Dunkel]

Holy crap Kashubia was in WW4 (yes) and I was a part of the Anti-Kashubian Farsi Resistance.
I died when then hanged me by my toes.

[Earthling]

There was some giant and mean gorilla-like creature locked in a building, and for some reason ZBBers were taking turns going in to the building. I was afraid to go in because not that long ago the gorilla had picked up zompist and squeezed him for so long he almost suffocated. (because naturally being squeezed by a giant gorilla would not cause one to be crushed) The gorilla picked me up and threw me to the floor. I wasn't hurt even though the floor was concrete. Then Astraios walked into the building, so I let the gorilla pick him up and I got out of there as fast as I could.

[Astraios]

Why am I always in people's dreams?!

I had a semi-lucid dream last night, because it's one I've had several times before. Normally I'm just stuck inside an infinite building full of things and people, and I'm trying desperately to escape from something or someone, who I never actually see, but who's keeping up with me pretty well as I run through the building, and eventually I get into a room with no way out and the thing/person chasing me catches up with me and kills me into being awake. This time though I could remember which corridors led to which rooms and what not, so instead of taking the usual indirect route through the building, I ran straight up to a room which I knew had a window, and I threw myself at the window to try and smash myself out. The glass didn't break, but I got halfway out before it tightened around my waist and threw me back into the room. So I ran down to try and find a different room, and nearly went into a room where I would usually die if I went in it, but I remembered at the last minute not to go in there, even though it looked harmless enough with a couple of random guys doing yoga in Speedos. I ran a different way and just as I was going down some stairs that looked promising I remembered that they led to a dead-end room, and I was all "Oh shit," and then I was killed.

It was very frustrating, knowing that even though I was conscious in the dream I still couldn't escape from the building.

[Aurora Rossa]

Holy crap Kashubia was in WW4 (yes) and I was a part of the Anti-Kashubian Farsi Resistance.
I died when then hanged me by my toes.

So the Kashubians broke away from Poland and became a world power capable of invading Iran?