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ratcreature) wrote2008-01-13 10:25 am
ratcreature) wrote2008-01-13 10:25 am
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freaky dream...
What an extremely freaky dream I had last night! It was like a kind of mix of SF story and room escape computer game, with a really complicated plot, so I have already forgotten many of the details, but the gist of it was like this:
It started out fairly normal. I was on public transport and had to get somewhere, only I noticed that some people act off, not obviously weird or anything, but as the dream goes on, something seems not right with them in how they act to me. Then I come to a store, or at least it seems like a store, but it is closed, only I'm certain I will be admitted.
Anyway, there's weird door mechanism thing admits me, at first glance it seems just like a locked revolving door, but it is some kind of disguised airlock thing that you can push through if it lets you. Meanwhile the clerk protests on the inside, only then she seems to realize something, as if I just should have told her, and her behavior changes, and the room shifts, not like a holodeck illusion but as if the material rearranges, and it turns into this slick futuristic thing with a machine in the center, against which I press my head or which I touch anyway, which then lets me into another (virtual?) environment.
And I'm left to wonder whether I'm one of them, i.e. the not quite right acting ones, who seem to maintain some kind of illusion, only I still don't know what's going on. Meanwhile I'm in this second environment, which is even more like a room escape game (in that I know that I have to collect things or go to certain places to "progress" as you have to with an escape game). Again there are some slightly freaky people who, while freaky, act like me in that they know this isn't real either, and normal humans acting like regular people who treat this all as normal every day environment, not realizing the odd things.
It was quite disconcerting, though not quite a nightmare, because the whole time in this cliched SF trope I didn't even know which "side" I was actually on wrt to the setup, why there were these people cooperating and deferring to me, whether something was being done to the less aware, whether we were actually all human, or some aliens pretending to be human... it was like having amnesia, only not really, since I still remembered the "in character" things I knew before I realized the weirdness.
Also, I actually woke up in the middle, but managed to get back into the same dream storyline, which rarely happens for me.
It started out fairly normal. I was on public transport and had to get somewhere, only I noticed that some people act off, not obviously weird or anything, but as the dream goes on, something seems not right with them in how they act to me. Then I come to a store, or at least it seems like a store, but it is closed, only I'm certain I will be admitted.
Anyway, there's weird door mechanism thing admits me, at first glance it seems just like a locked revolving door, but it is some kind of disguised airlock thing that you can push through if it lets you. Meanwhile the clerk protests on the inside, only then she seems to realize something, as if I just should have told her, and her behavior changes, and the room shifts, not like a holodeck illusion but as if the material rearranges, and it turns into this slick futuristic thing with a machine in the center, against which I press my head or which I touch anyway, which then lets me into another (virtual?) environment.
And I'm left to wonder whether I'm one of them, i.e. the not quite right acting ones, who seem to maintain some kind of illusion, only I still don't know what's going on. Meanwhile I'm in this second environment, which is even more like a room escape game (in that I know that I have to collect things or go to certain places to "progress" as you have to with an escape game). Again there are some slightly freaky people who, while freaky, act like me in that they know this isn't real either, and normal humans acting like regular people who treat this all as normal every day environment, not realizing the odd things.
It was quite disconcerting, though not quite a nightmare, because the whole time in this cliched SF trope I didn't even know which "side" I was actually on wrt to the setup, why there were these people cooperating and deferring to me, whether something was being done to the less aware, whether we were actually all human, or some aliens pretending to be human... it was like having amnesia, only not really, since I still remembered the "in character" things I knew before I realized the weirdness.
Also, I actually woke up in the middle, but managed to get back into the same dream storyline, which rarely happens for me.
freaky dream...
Re: freaky dream...
I once "woke up" in that manner from a nightmare only to find myself paralyzed and unable to scream and completely terrified, until something in my brain pointed out that I must be still dreaming by calling up the trivia that something in REM sleep blocks movement to protect you, so I then tried to make myself wake up for real but couldn't, and something threatening still lurked. It was the suckiest lucid dream *ever*.
Anyway, my nightmares mostly tend to be more gruesome (plagues, bloated corpses, being chased through nightmarish labyrinth-like buildings, drowning...) and combined in weird ways with mundane anxiety inducing things, like e.g. once I had one were I was trying to get through a stressful family dinner, only then the place where it happened started to flood and I'm afraid to drown, while bloated smelly corpses floated by. Or I'm cold and shivering and hungry, while others eat, only I can't get inside because I have a horrific skin rash that originated from coming too close to a furry cactus monster (don't ask, though that one was mundane at first too, it had disguised itself as a potted plant, and was seductively soft, inviting touch, so I touched the soft cactus, which then caused me to get erupting pustules).
Actually horrible physical sensations frequently appear in my nightmares, the most common is the physical sensation of my teeth crumbling and falling out to whatever other scary thing is happening, and for the whole nightmare I'm spitting out bloody bits of crumbled teeth. That usually also alerts me on some level that I am dreaming, but I never manage to control my lucid dream, so that I could turn the sucky ones into something nice like flying or whatever.
Re: freaky dream...