After flying away from a rigged school election with three cohorts, we found ourselves on some sort of aerial transport in the dark of night, surrounded by many other passengers. Eventually we fell asleep, but I woke later to see that the entire group of people had passed out as well, with the exception of a small number of them who were actually humanoid smoke-monsters in disguise. They had posed as human beings and lulled the entire ship into unconsciousness so they could harvest our souls. I silently roused my three companions, and we began communicating about how to escape, but I was quickly silenced by one with a warning that, should the smoke monsters hear me speak, they would devour my voice and silence me forever. I woke up at that point from subconsciously attempting to remind myself to write the experience down later.
A dream I had two nights ago concerned my girlfriend and I trying to physically hand-assemble colorful, 3D backdrops for a fighting game. The most vivid one was a grassy path crossing a small wooden bridge with a stream in the background. Afterwards we went snowboarding with my family.
Had an incredibly surreal dream that I was playing the not-yet-released GTA4. In it, the player was sucked into abstract worlds where they were handed random items (bolts, oddly shaped metal filings, playing cards with strange illustrations), and were required to match them up in certain ways. There was no sense or order to any of it, but once done correctly the player would acquire an item that they were allowed to take back to the regular GTA world, and it would benefit them forever. Items that would summon miniature chinese dragons made of rice-balls, etc.
I woke myself up later that morning by dreaming I was clicking my mouse button repeatedly, but in reality was physically tapping my finger on the wood frame of my bed, and wondering why I wasn’t hearing the usual clicking noise.
I had a short dream in which my girlfriend kept stealing my second monitor, and hiding it from me somewhere in the apartment.
My latest dream took place outside in a sunny rural environment. There was a small model town that my girlfriend and I journeyed through. When we went outside, I caught a plague that resulted in everyone around me, with the exception of my girlfriend, dying immediately when I came within 10 feet of them.
Later in the dream I was viewing a webpage, and discovered a turn-based, first-person RPG that you played in the real world (with HUD and all!) My girlfriend and I walked around playing together, combating video-game monsters that were popping up on our way back to town.
Afterwards we took time to watch kids play a sport they had made up that involved roller-blading on top of a dam, over a gap with a hundred foot drop. And at the end of the dream we stopped in the town center to see an art show about fish.
In my second dream of the night, I was in a 3-story mall that was built underwater. People would go there to shop and vacation. Early on in the dream, while I was standing in my rented room, something happened to the mall itself and I turned around see that water was flooding in at a frightening rate. It was already halfway up the walls. I fled from my room and worked my way through the bottom floor of the building, but upon reaching the stairway I saw that it was already flooded with water. While I was trying to decide if I should look for another route or try to swim out, the damage to the mall increased, and everything sank.
I was able to survive by reloading from a previous save…
In this dream I was walking around an urban area with my girlfriend. We encountered several very strange things, such as a large bipedal reptile that flew around on gossamer insect wings, and a what we thought was a purple mutant monkey that could stretch its arms out like elastic and use them as whips.
Later in the dream, after walking back home, we learned what we thought was a mutant purple monkey, was actually an insane female carnival worker in a purple sweater. She wanted to kill us, so we hopped into a truck with my dad and fled from her. She hijacked a farm combine and chased us down. Eventually we destroyed her by driving up a vertical rope bridge, and then dropping our truck onto her after we jumped out and hung onto the wooden planks.
Dreamed I was in an interview with someone at Insomniac Games, but the interview took place in the environment for one of their upcoming games. The interviewer and I walked through the level of polygons and handpainted textures while conversing over development techniques and Insomniac resources.
In the first part of this dream I was in a department store with an old friend, helping him shop for a bike. The area was well lit, but the floor was strangely uneven, and the walls were oddly angled. We soon left the store, but later in the same dream I found myself in the same physical space, but this time with a different friend and where department store motif once appeared the space was now a nearly-pitch-black, low ceiling dungeon.
My friend and I spent the night in a room within, and had to be very quiet due to a nearby clan of goblins. However halfway through the night I saw three cave-gnomes through a crack in the wall, and shouted at the top of my lungs when running over to speak with them. The friendly gnomes vanished into thin air as the sounds of goblins came in our direction, looking for the noise. We fled from them out of the dungeon, and in our flight encountered a “shadowbeast” which chased us further over fields and off a cliff.
Fortunately the shadowbeast turned out to be playful and friendly, and we soon returned to the dungeon where I slew the goblin clan with my twin pizza knives, and spent the rest of the dream helping another group of adventurers sort their room full of cardboard boxes.
In this dream I was with my family and girlfriend. We were in a high-altitude remote mountain cavern, exploring unknown ruins that we thought no one on earth had touched in thousands of years. There were ancient wall carvings, relics and monuments, and an extreme sense of solitude overall.
Exploring a side-passage led us to a modern, urban living space looking like a very small but luxurious home. The owner soon arrived and we discovered that what we thought was an untouched ruin, was actually the retirement retreat of a single old man built into the side of a mountain, high in the Himalayas. He was very upset at us for invading his home while he was out shopping for tea.