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Storytelling while asleep

About a billion years ago in college, I used experience every dream trope (false awakening, lucid dreaming, and just extremely vivid, movie-like dreams), along with sleep paralysis (which is kind of like dreaming, but you’re awake). Now I mostly have somewhat vivid dreams if I’m lucky, and the most I can lucid dream is detect that I’m in a dream or wake up on command, but can’t control it or stay asleep.

Dream Terminology

False awakening— A dream where you wake up…but you’re not actually awake. You’re still dreaming and you dreamed you woke up. Bonus if you’re stuck in a false awakening loop. 😑

Lucid dreaming— The ability to control your dreams and be aware that you’re dreaming. When I had this, I basically stopped having nightmares because I could control the outcome.

Sleep paralysis— Not really dream-related, but you feel like you’re dreaming. Sometimes you might wake up and realize you can’t move or open your eyes. And YMMV on this, but a lot of people sense an evil or malevolent entity nearby. IIRC, this really isn’t paranormal, but more psychological.

  • Dreaming in…PHP?

    Anyone ever get really tired and nod off and these random dream-like thoughts enter your mind? That happened to me today.

    My entire “dream” was a poem about a heron with a long gray beak. And it was entirely in PHP. XP It was sort of object-oriented programming-like (since I’m just starting to play around with OOP). It went something like this:

    var $heron;
    $heron->grayBeak;

    If it really were object-oriented programming, wouldn’t it be more like:

    $heron = new Heron();
    $heron->grayBeak();

    There were more lines describing more characteristics of the heron. And there was another heron, who was introduced like:

    var $heron2;
  • Dream: Where Natalie Portman was Disguised as a Turtle

    The four Ninja Turtles (from the 80s cartoon) were camping on the beach, when another turtle (a regular, non-anthropomorphized turtle) showed up on the waves and approached them. They took it home, only to discover that the turtle was actually Natalie Portman in disguise. She told them that they had been chosen to save the world from impending doom.

    And then followed a series of events, involving other characters (including myself :D). Mainly Disney characters. (There was a scene that took place on a railroad on the side of a mountain, that looked similar to the train scene/mission on Mt. Corel in FFVII. I think the Mad Hatter was there. XP) There was another scene where Natalie had to disguise herself a squishy, green, glowing slug when she and the turtles reached some far off city, and some guards were questioning her authenticity…

    Eventually, everyone ended up at one location, which looked like it was in the woods. They were told that the mastermind behind this entire mess would reveal himself. There was a large cauldron in the middle of the crowd. Purplish pink smoke billowed up and started to resemble the Cheshire Cat. I wasn’t too surprised, since the Cheshire Cat always did seem like a trickster-type of character to me (but I was hoping for something more…menacing and epic). But no, the smoke cleared, revealing the Tramp from Lady and the Tramp. O_o While everyone was in shock, he said “:/ The color dark green never lies” (I think he was wearing a dark green collar at the time).

    I “woke up” and somehow some movie producers found out about my dream and wanted to make a movie out of it. But when I saw the opening of the turtles finding a female anthropomorphized turtle instead of the regular-looking turtle that Natalie, I started to think ‘I think that’s wrong…?’

    There was actually a lot more to this dream, but I could only remember what I wrote. X( I was also involved as one of the more semi-main characters, and the main, central character was actually Natalie herself.

  • Dream: Soft and Cozy Inn™

    Haha, once again, I get to torture you with another dream of mine. :3 (Actually, this one’s not as exciting as the other ones. But four days in a row with dreams. Maybe there should be an Internet meme called “365 Dreams a Year” or “Dream-a-Day”. :P)

    A Capstone classmate and I were lodging at a public swimming pool. In exchange for being able to stay the night, we were asked to clean the place up. We both sat at a long table by the pool, talking while working (I was using some face cleaning stuff to clean furniture, various objects and anything that’s wasn’t actual people faces).

    The dream switched over to my church (where I do volunteer work). I was given the task of printing out a stack of black-and-white flyers on colored paper. But when I pressed the print button, a full-color, legal-sized poster on white paper came out. I figured that one of the ministry assistants had in the printing queue, and thought about printing the rest of out (but decided against it, when I remembered that she might want to look it over and make corrections before printing out the rest). I took a stack of colored paper and hunted for the tray to put it in…except I couldn’t find said tray. :O (Other than that, I was pretty amazed at how much luck I was having with the printer, as seeing as how it didn’t act like it was possessed. :P)

    Now I was at home, in the living room. Except the living room no longer looked like our living room; it looked like a meeting room or a conference room. All around the perimeter of the room were sofas and tables. And there were a bunch of people I was unfamiliar with were also in that room (some kind of ceremony going on). Then I remember I lost a poster in this room a long time ago, so I decided to find it before someone else did.

    That resulted in me crawling around on the floor, checking under the sofas and tables (even when people were in danger of stepping on me :O). I would check in areas I have not looked in for a long time, and I would crawl right across the room to get to the other side. ^_^;

    The dream shifted back to the public pool. Our work (classmate’s and mine) was done, and we headed to our “room”, which looked like a locker room under construction…and it probably was, since there were lockers lined up against the walls. In between each set of lockers was a sleeping bag hanging on the wall. Classmate, myself and other people staying at the pool slept in these sleeping bags. 😛 In the middle of the room was a long, unfurnished dining table and somewhere in the corner were old kayaks and paddles.

    (As for the entry title, there was a scene in Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice #10 where Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have to go to a place called Soft Landings Inn…which was nothing like its name suggested. 😛 It was rundown and downright ugly-looking, so this dream reminded me of that.)

  • Two Ghostly Dreams

    Cast:
    Mocha: guinea pig
    Worm88: brother

    I had yet another weird dream this morning. O_o It had two parts.

    Part One

    I was cleaning the house of a woman, while her five year old daughter was taking a bath. Once she was done, I jumped in after so I could take one myself. When I sat in the tub, I noticed I had pink marker lines all over me, drawn in some kind of weird pattern. I then remembered a dream I had about a ghost drawing patterns all over me (while my pajamas were still on), so these lines must’ve come from that dream! :O

    Part Two

    I was in my room, with Mocha on my bed, when two birds and three monkeys came in through the window and somehow got themselves trapped in Mocha’s cage. O_o I took the cage out to the back, since I didn’t want wild animals in the house and they all ran/flew out into the backyard. I watched them play among the bushes, until I noticed an old 60s type car drive into the backyard from the side of the house and get stuck in the wall. I thought that it might be a ghost car (why else would it appear out of nowhere into the backyard?).

    Worm88 walked by and I showed him the ghost car…which had “conveniently” faded away. I then showed him the birds and monkeys (birds I can understand, but how often do you see monkeys in your backyard in the city?). They too had disappeared and I figured that they were ghosts as well. When Worm88’s back was turned, the license plate of the car had appeared and the monkeys reappeared again. I gave up trying to show him, since I knew they would disappear once he turned toward them. X_x