Why can't I have such cool dreams like Renee???!?? I only dream crap!

I had a dream last night in which I was a superhero. I remember being in costume (with a cape) and jumping up on top of a fence. I stood there perfectly balanced and looked down into the yard on the other side. There was a bunch of people there. Half were bad guys holding guns and knives on the good guys - who were the other half. I was thinking of how I was going to lay the smack down on those bad guys when the cat woke me up.

MEOW

WOOF !!!

I am normally as hyper in sleep as awake; but the last two nights in a row I've gone to sleep; slept the whole night through without waking; and in the morning woken up in the exact same position as I was in when I fell asleep hours before! REALLY unusual for me.

I don't remember what I dreamed now; of course = but the first night my dreams were vivid and active; nothing unusual from what I normally dream. Last night, though = I only remember my dreams on waking; it was as if I didn't even dream till the morning. When the dreams started they were completely interconnected with what was on TV in the background = "Spongebob Squarepants." (went to sleep watching Nickelodeon). Waking up to Spongebob is only one step above waking up to "Blues Clues;" Urgh !!!!

I've had this happen too. My TV is off when I'm asleep but I've been over at friends' places or whatever when I was younger, and had wacky dreams according to what was on their TV / radio. Just be thankful it was Spongebob! (imagine if it was Chuck Norris).

So I had this dream this morning which was really short. Maybe two minutes long. I was in Sir Vyvoor's game. *pic* And I opened up a menu to look into his inventory. This menu had a toothbrush mod. So I open up its MCM sub-menu and was REALLY blown away to find this mod had all sorts of options! I could change the color of the toothbrush. I could make its bristles into more customized shapes (from generic dollar-store flat shape to more of an Oral B style) ... there was this whole list of things I could change, to suit Vyvoor's dental hygiene needs. I could even put a swivel in the brush's middle, so it'd be more of a folding, travel-type toothbrush.

I got all excited about this. Sat up and really paid attention, scrolling down all these choices. But then I woke up. And realized, man, what a pointless mod that would be!

So now you've just GOTTA make it, right?

P.S. Could you dual-wield?

Ha ha!

Maybe for the full mod roll-out, you could include soaps and washcloths with various properties. And then towels with magical effects... And a Comb of Perfect Coiffure that raises Charisma...

See now I wonder if this is where some inspiration for the Stormcrow came from?

Well, if mirocu's out there, he's going to get really jealous I think.

So last night I had this dream in which I was standing in my back yard, talking to my sister. The yard had a huge pond, which does not exist in real-life. Its water was pretty clear, though I could see plenty of debris (leaves, sediment) along its bottom. It was stocked with fishies.

All the sudden, an Argonian swam into view! It was wearing clothes, just like they do in the games, tan-colored shirt and trousers. It grabbed one of the fish. This fish was about a foot long, maybe a trout. It grabs the fish, and starts eating it! And I say to my sis "Hey, that Argonian is eating a fish!" ... As the lizard ate, a lot of smaller fish (minnows and such) swam up and began gobbling all the pieces that began floating all around its mouth. I even saw a multi-colored rainbow fish rush out of the depths.

Now that I'm awake, the irony is hitting me: I was more amazed about the Argonian eating that trout than I was that I had a real live lizardman in my backyard!

Hee! Put in a pond, stock it with fishies and the Argonians will come!

So you are a creative modder even in your sleep!







Bold:

I am guessing you modded that Argonian into your dreams...

I have had superheros on the brain a lot since late last year. That is how I became inspired to write January. Usually my dreams eventually catch up with whatever I am thinking about.

neve

Dreaming of Neve from the show, "Catfishing?"

I dreamed today that I was playing Fallout but realized that upon saving, the savefiles were stored in Skyrim's folder, which means I overwrote all my existing saves for Skyrim with those from Fallout. It sounds funny now, but in the dreams it was really unpleasant, because there was no way to retrieve the lost saves.

I had a very strange dream the other day. Usually, it is hard for me to remember my dreams but this was just so weird and amusing.

I've been playing a lot of ESO lately, so it was on the mind. I was going through the Glenumbra storyline, so I was running into the Bloodthorn cult a lot.

In real life, my dad has found some stuff that has helped grow back his thinning hair. It hasn't become some flowing mane, but it is about at his shoulders and it is quite long compared to what it was at. He is absolutely reveling in it.

Now, you are probably asking: What do these two things have to do with each other? Well, I found out in my fight against the Bloodthorn Cult that my dad had joined up with them. I was completely dumbfounded and eventually confronted him, asking him, "Why would you join a cult?!"

My dad, looking at and talking to me in a matter-of-fact way: "I am NOT going to cut my hair." Apparently all the cult needed to do to ensure his cooperation was to leave his hair alone.

I found this quite funny when I woke up. I remembered it yesterday and told my family about it, who found it just as humorous.

GAAAAAH, that is a nightmare! Lol.

Lopov: at least those saves didn't get overwritten by Leisure Suit Larry.

Rader: seems Propecia is the only things missing from the world of Elder Scrolls Online.

I had an odd dream last night. I was part of a team of people. I think we were all superheros, because I definitely had a utility belt with all kinds of pouches on it. We had to drive somewhere, so we took Thor's car. It was an old Plymouth Neon convertible. Why Thor was driving that, I do not know.

Anyway, it didn't want to go very fast. Then someone mentioned that I need to shift gears. That is when I noticed it was a manual. So I put it in fourth gear and it took off. The rest of the dream was just me driving, using the clutch, watching the RPMs, and shifting up and down through the gears. I have not driven a stick shift in decades. But apparently I still remember how. At least when I am asleep.

And I just had yet another dream sponsored by Doom 3. Not a long dream; a pinky came at me and I released a hail of bullets from the chaingun from the same game. The end.



-Thanks for still giving me dreams from that game, Brain. It's not like I haven't played it since 2006-2007 and that I would prefer TES inspired dreams or anything

Interesting, both of you. My Jeep has a stick shift, it is fun to drive (sometimes). mirocu you have been talking about Doom 3 ... ever since I have known you. Best to just get it over and play the game again.

I had some Mycharonna dreams last night, probably because I gave Lopov one of her saves (so he could mod-test it). For those who don't know, she's my spookiest character; the only one I have somewhat of a 2-way communication with. I don't remember any of my dreams with her though. Maybe that's a good thing.

Nope. Game too boring and guns effing useless.

Had yet another Doom dream last night, but this one was different. Instead of it being based off Doom 3, it was based off Doom 2016. That makes a change!

I was following Doom Slayer when we came upon some debris which he needed to clear. That meant he couldn't shoot the monsters so I decided to take his gun (the starter pistol) and help him. Problem was, it didn't work for me. So I went to him and had him "authorize" it for me so I could use it. At some point I also used the railgun but I think it was the one from Quake 2.

Shortly thereafter it was all done and we went through a whirlwind and got to an office looking place where a businessman greeted us. I gave back the pistol and then the dream ended.


Crikey, it really was different to my usual Doom dreams!

One of these days I'm going to have to watch a Doom Let's Play video, to see what all the fuss is about. It sounds like an intense game.

It is. But I don't know why I keep dreaming about it. I've had WAY more hours on Oblivion and Fallout 3 but I never dream about those games

That sucks. I do feel for you. Some of my Bethesda-type dreams are ones I'll never forget. Such as being with Marge N. Overra in that D.C, Cafe. Or Sarah Phimm showing up as a ghost, and picking me up and letting me float along with her.

Or Mycharonna scaring the [censored] out of me occasionally. :ninja;

Had an awfully strange dream this morning when I went back to bed. It's kind of hard to explain, but I was in Fallout. I was actually in the game, but I was aware it was a game, so I guess the technology was advanced enough you could actually put yourself in the game.

Anyway, I was traveling around and saw this freeway of sorts going to what was supposed to be Hollywood. There were other players around me as well. As I am wont to do sometimes in the games, I like going to the furthest boundaries of the game world just to see how far I can go and what I can see. Suddenly, the freeway stretched out and the abandoned and flipped-over cars were less in the way. I was able to go to Hollywood in the Fallout universe! Long story short, I got to explore a bit before I woke up...

...But after I woke up (and I must have been in a really deep sleep, because my alarm went off and I didn't register it or that is was meant for me), I thought about the dream...and there was no way that that was Hollywood I went to. Not in California at least. It looked more like one of those Old West towns that look more modernized now--the ones where you can still see the Old West architecture and influence. Maybe it was some Hollywood out west that I was subconsciously aware of, but I doubt it.

That would be pretty fun, a Fallout game based in Hollywood. The expansion pack would probably be Beverly Hills.

During my 30s, my "super-slacker" years I lived mostly in Portland Oregon. I lived all over the city, moving from Northwest to Northeast to Southeast to being homeless for 6 months to North Portland back to Northeast... all of this from 1996 to 2005. As I've told Lopov many times, Americans have a tendency to move around a lot, whereas in Europe it is more common to live in the same house, maybe even their family's house, for decades.

Anyway, so the dream was in this sort of setting. I was living in House A up in Northeast Portland, but I had been spending all day in House B, which was some sort of a party house. This was common for a lot of Gen X'ers, to just spend all day at someone else's house, friends or acquaintances or relatives. But in the dream, I was eager to get back to my own house. I wanted to rest.

But I kept getting distracted. Was having troubles leaving House B. Was having too much fun, although I was getting weary. Finally I managed to slip out. Got into my old Corolla, began thinking I'd go for a short drive to a nearby park, and read a book, until I fell asleep in my car, or whatever.

So I went somewhere. Began reading a book. It was some sort of a publication written by SubRosa. It may have been part of her Stormcrow series, I'm not sure. But what really got me was I discovered she'd put a bunch of footnotes into her book. At the bottom of one page were two dozen little pictures, literally little doodles, each one in its own little box. For some reason this really blew me away, because they were apparently hand-drawn.

Later in the dream I wound up going to House C, which was featuring a small party of folk located on Alberta Street. The party was for SubRosa Florens, recently-published author. She did show up to the party too (fashionably late), but I didn't have much time to greet her before I woke up.

Awesomesauce! You probably got the idea for the doodles from how I post pictures in my fic. You don't want to see my artwork!

Wow, I love those murals on Alberta Street!

I dreamed of my grandma. I do constantly since she died.

This was another in which she had never died. She still had cancer though. We were just spending time at her house, which was... eventful as I no longer have a functioning relationship with my dad's sister, her son, or her husband, and they all live there. We were in a hurry to leave, especially as I had found out that my youngest sibling had already gotten home but had to sleep outside on the snowy front yard (which we live in the desert of Southern California, so snow is incredibly rare usually).

The highlight was me having to explain to her what the phrase, "And that's on periodt, pooh!" means.

Last night I had a dream that Haute was coming over for tabletop gaming. I am not sure exactly what game we were going to be playing. I remember going around the apartment cleaning up so it looked nice for her visit. Then the next thing I knew, the door was open, and she was standing in the hallway. There were other people there too. I don't know who.

That is all I can remember. Gaming night with Haute.

All of us from Chorrol were there! Don't you remember?

Aw, that sounds fun. Table-gaming is very slow, but very fun. It changed my life in high school for the better. We'd stay up all night, literally when it was summer vacation we'd start gaming as the sun went down, and did not stop until it was coming up again.

Jacki Dice: Your grandma still speaks to you. It is not easy, right? Or maybe it is for you, I don't know. I had a loved one speak to me in a dream about a year ago. He died in 2010. When I saw him in the dream I was lucid, and therefore able to direct my questions in a meaningful manner. But he had been away so long, he no longer knew what it was to speak English. And that made the entire experience seem that much more real.

Since he couldn't speak to me, we communicated through gestures and facial expressions. It f*cking incredibly heavy.

Another farking Doom 3 dream last night. Don't remember much though; they're having less and less of an impact as I've had so many of them over the years now

I think there were two Hell Knights at some point. Or maybe I just remember the part just before you enter the portal.

Just play yourself some DOOM 3, bird. You know you want to.

Had the guns been A LOT* better, then maybe...


But we're digressing..



* - And I do mean A LOT

Well, this night I dreamt about playing (or being in?) the original Doom. It's improving!


Standard stuff; just shooting. At the last map the enemies just poured in and I kept spamming the BFG. At one point The Violator from Spawn decided to join the party and that was hilarious!

Finally had another game-inspired dream.

I was in some town which looked like a cross between Cheydinhal and Skingrad. It had Cheydinhal's architecture, but Skingrad's hills. Anyway, I was with an Argonian, who (it was understood) was my pet. I was in charge of feeding this Argonian, whoever she was. It wasn't City Swimmer, this much I know, because this lizard was better-dressed.

In real-life we have a cat and a dog in our house, and both of these animals have internal clocks in their heads. They always know when it's time for their feeding, somehow. But sometimes the cat especially tries to fool me, tries to act like I don't know what time it is. And the Argonian in my dream was doing the same thing. It was begging for food even though I knew it wasn't time, yet.

I ignored the Argonian, who then ran off down an alleyway, between a couple of Tudor-styled houses! This alley went down a small hill, and I could see a large gathering of NPCs on the other side of those houses. I kept watching. After a few seconds, a large ruckus occurred. Although I could not see what was going on, I knew my Argonian just stole an apple, or whatever, and now she was getting beaten up.

I would PAY to have an Oblivion dream!

It's happened to me a few times. Some not many of Jandaga's reactions to events recorded in his adventure journal have been inspired by my dreams. An example is Jandaga doing the Vaermina daedric quest. Since doing the Adense Epic Dungeon mod quest in 2018 this was our second meeting with Vaermina so my dream engagement with Vaermina at her shine got a little cheeky. only problem is by the time I woke up and started typing much of the good stuff had faded away. I was left with;

Placing the black soul gem on the shrine I called out. ”Vaermina, it is I, the Jandaga. Come forth and treat with me.”
The cosmos shifted and there I was standing before the great daedric prince Vaermina.
“Dear Vaermina, your shrine does not do you justice. You get more beautiful by the day.” Did she just blush or roll her eyes? I couldn’t tell, maybe both.
“You mock me creature of the Fae but you pleased me once before perhaps you will entertain me again?”
She told me what she wanted. Recover her Orb which was stolen by the wizard Arkved.
“Now, be gone gnat.”

The screenshot is from Adense Epic Dungeon.

mirocu-- it's so odd that you only have DOOM dreams. Maybe you need to play some DOOM so you can have Oblivion / Fallout dreams instead.

macole-- I know what you mean about dreams fading away fast. I basically have to lie there whenever I have a good dream, trying to remember every detail. Usually I can only remember the tail-end of most dreams, unfortunately, knowing there were some epic parts earlier on as well.

Not gonna happen, although I watch dear BigMac doing his walkthrough instead. Maybe that'll fix it

Had another DOOM 2016 dream and this one was quite fun! Ran around but not shooting much. Instead I was busy finding secrets and supplies

I had a game-related dream overnight! An MMO. An MMO RPG. A fantasy MMO RPG. A faux fantasy MMO RPG. It was most interesting and well-thought-out. Alas, details have grown too faint to regurgitate. I likely remember having it because it was my final dream of the night, ending when I woke for the day. I prefer erotic dreams when I can get 'em, but this'll do.

Last night I had my first January dream. It did not start out that way. But at some point in the dream I became January/Stormcrow. I was in a house with the woman who lived there. A man ran outside and got in the car in the driveway. He was a bad guy. I don't know exactly what he did, just that he was dangerous. So I leapt out after him, and stood in front of the car. He hit the gas, but I just put my hands on the hood, and held the car in place. He tried to back up. But I just jumped over the car and the did the same thing on the other side.

I looked at him through the window. I thought, and maybe said: "Really? Don't you know who I am?"

I walked over to the car door to pull him out. But he locked the door. I knew I could just rip the door off, or smash the window. But I did not want to damage the car, since I did not know who it belonged to. I was standing there trying to decide what to do next, when I woke up.

I've had a few dreams in the past few weeks about Fallout 76's Nuclear Winter mode, the PvP battle royale. (It's incredibly fun, btw). I'm not sure if I was actually in the game, just playing it, or somewhere in between, but I do remember I was doing well. Got Fallout on the mind a lot lately with these (day)dreams, playing Fallout 76, and writing my Fallout: Florida storyline.

Oh my gosh!

Just in case you want to try having more Stormcrow dreams, There are ways we're supposed to influence our dreams, such as, if something is on our mind quite a lot just as we're falling asleep. Not 100% reliable of course, but I've had quite a few nightly escapades which have worked this way. Of course, I assume you already do this 'technique' quite a lot, January being on your mind quite a lot.


Yes, that's what I was saying up above.

I had another one. Maybe it's because I've been playing & writing Fallout 3 again, and I've been sort of obsessed about my character & her story, that I had a FO3 dream again last night. Instead of a black female though, I was gaming with a white male, who looked sort of like this guy, including the beard.

In my game, my character is about to make the trip from Springvale Elementary to Germantown Police Department, and in the dream, my character was making the same trip. Walking north, basically.

The Capitol Wasteland was way different. As I walked my character up the path, the landscape was heavily forested, instead of washed-out and dry. If we tried to peer through this forest, for instance, all we'd see was more forest. It was daylight. And there were a lot of people walking along the path with us. Men, women, and children. All of them were wearing Prewar outfits such as these. My character was wearing the red flannel-looking shirt in the upper right of that picture.

As we're walking along, my first thought was "there's too many people in this mod." Because that's what this dream was, a huge mod which was added to the base game, which added forest and a lot of Travelers. It must be a mod! I thought. Another thing: Nobody was carrying any weapons, and there were no attacks from any enemies.

I walked my character to an area which was supposed to be some sort of rest stop. It was a rather scenic-looking inn, built upon a small hillock. It had a playground in its front yard, and my gosh, there were kids sliding down this playground's slide, and running around its merry-go-round. I approved of that. Good job, mod-author, whoever you are. The area was still heavily-forested.

My character walked inside the inn. It was getting dark outside. He was going to rent a room, but before he did, he decided to go back outside. So he does this. I am curious: does this 'mod' make everybody still walk around at night? If so, this would need to get changed. That's right, even in my own dream, I was already thinking "I'm going to have to make some changes in the GECK."

Another thought I had was, what happens when a deathclaw or a pack of raiders shows up? None of these folks walking around seemed prepared for this. Hate to say, but I was curious what would happen to all these NPCs when they got attacked.

There did seem to be less people walking around a night, so that was good. My character looked to his left. Off in the forest, maybe a thousand feet away, was a huge bonfire. My character begins to walk in that direction. Maybe there's something going on over there! Some sort of Quest or whatever. But before he makes it to the bonfire, I'm noticing the sky is getting light again. Which is way too fast.

In my game, I've got Timescale set to 10, because I want it to be closer to Earth-time, but not too close. Well in this dream, Timescale was apparently cranked way too fast. Maybe 50 or 60! As the dream ended, I was thinking this is another thing I'll have to address in the GECK. Didn't even occur to me to just use a console command.

Way cool dream, Renee!