Nightmares (may or may not be game-related)

[Divinegon]

Half of these look on-topic to me if the topic is video-game related nightmares.

Dear sir, I thought the point of this section of the forum would be to talk about things that are Off-Topic. Or are we off-topic on that as well?

And by your dream, I would believe you were in the making of Morrowind, specially at the beginning of the game where you found the spell of giant leap of doom. Because you'd jump too high to survive the fall.

 

[Saskwach]

This recurring one's pretty silly:
I'm out back with my brother tending our field of beans in the back yard on a moonlit night (no we don't have a bean field in the backyard). My brother walks in and I follow him soon after. Suddenly my brother is gone and the backdoor opens straight into our house's corridor which is much longer than normal and totally dark beyond a few metres. The door then disappears and is replaced by a giant octopus. I run from this octopus, its tentacles chase after me, catching up, the corridor seems to be endless, suddenly I'm caught and I try to scream but no sound comes out and...
I wake up and wonder why the hell I had this stupid nightmare again. Luckily it seems to have been one of those embarrassing things you leave behind in high school.
A very recent pseudo-nightmare I had lately after a whole bunch of guitar hero was that I was playing a long note and even before that note has finished more notes have appeared. Do I go with the long note or choose the shorter ones and give up on the long? OH GOD THE HORROR.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

Video games actually cured me of my nightmares. I used to have dreams where I was being chased by Something Terrible, often through a maze-like environment, and I would wake up "AAAIIIEEEE!" and shaking and couldn't get back to sleep.

Now when I have such dreams, I wake up, "Damn! This boss is a real bastard! Now I have to restart the level!" and I go right back to sleep and have the exact same dream again, more determined to find whatever trick or weapon I need to beat that boss and clear the level.

 

[Saskwach]

Video games actually cured me of my nightmares. I used to have dreams where I was being chased by Something Terrible, often through a maze-like environment, and I would wake up "AAAIIIEEEE!" and shaking and couldn't get back to sleep.

Now when I have such dreams, I wake up, "Damn! This boss is a real bastard! Now I have to restart the level!" and I go right back to sleep and have the exact same dream again, more determined to find whatever trick or weapon I need to beat that boss and clear the level.

In other news, Jack Thompson claims new Harvard University study proves videogames make people dream-killers.

 

[InProgress]

This nightmare i had when I was around 5 (didn't have a computer then): I with my brother and mother were in a war-torn city, everything burning and rubble everywhere. I look down and there was some kind of guy with a big nose, a bit smaller then a garden gnome. I lean down to press his nose(to this day I have no idea why I did that) and his mouth opened and tried to kill me(the mouth was about 6 feet high) I run, my brother and mother get eaten alive right before my eyes. I hide in a car, and one of those gnomes (forgot to metion there were millions of them in the city)bites the car and eates my feet, and while sliding down his mouth I woke up.

First time I played Half-Life 1 (I think 5-6 years ago) I kept waking up because I fought one of those aliens that shoot with lightbolts came to bugger me when I was sleeping.

 

[The Negotiator]

I had a nightmare I was in a Halo war and then I take refuge in a house. Then all the suddend, I'm taking this siver case out of here by jumping out the window and landing on a bike. A mile later I'm hit by a truck with some general inside it and were all surrounded by brutes. This is the fucked up part, I actually take these two ingector guns and ingect myself with this hellish shit. Now I have turned into this fucking demonish preadator and start killing everything in site. When I lose that power I see myself covored in blood surrounded by a wasteland of bodies. When I wake up I feel good. ( I know most of you are thinking WTF, but I actually liked that nightmare. ) o_0

 

[Saskwach]

I had a nightmare I was in a Halo war and then I take refuge in a house. Then all the suddend, I'm taking this siver case out of here by jumping out the window and landing on a bike. A mile later I'm hit by a truck with some general inside it and were all surrounded by brutes. This is the fucked up part, I actually take these two ingector guns and ingect myself with this hellish shit. Now I have turned into this fucking demonish preadator and start killing everything in site. When I lose that power I see myself covored in blood surrounded by a wasteland of bodies. When I wake up I feel good. ( I know most of you are thinking WTF, but I actually liked that nightmare. ) o_0

You're right, I was thinking WTF. Still, quite a cool dream.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

In other news, Jack Thompson claims new Harvard University study proves videogames make people dream-killers.

I had a different dream where I was trying to stop one of those nutso-gunman-shoots-a-place-up-and-kills-lots-of-people incidents. In the dream, the guy was getting a divorce and had lost his job, due to some alcohol problems, if I recall correctly, and I somehow knew he was going to go into the diner where his wife and son spent a lot of time and kill everyone, including himself. I had to stop him. In the first iteration of the dream, I was able to stop him from killing his wife and son, but everyone else died. The second time around, I handled things a bit better and was able to save most of the people, but the guy was shot dead by the police in front of his son. The third time around, having learned necessary information in previous two dreams, I wasn't able to keep the guy from trying to go on the killing spree, but I was able to keep him from shooting anyone, and he just got arrested and taken away instead. I suppose if I'd had a few more chances, I could have talked him out of the shooting all together, but my alarm went off.

I think that would be an awesome game, an RPG where you are trying to prevent some sort of Columbine/Virginia Tech/San Ysidro (anyone remember that? It was the first crazed shooter massacre of its kind, so far as I know) massacre. It would be possible to lose the entire game, rather than just the level, if you didn't prevent the killing in the end.

 

[kawazu]

My old Japanese teacher told me of a nightmare she had when she was little where a toilet monster would attack her.X_X

I think the weirdest dream that I've had was in my dream i kept waking up in my old house on my bed. And then I would wake up again and part of my bed would be missing. This part was in the third person and it kept doing this until the entire bed was gone and I was asleep on the floor. Then I would wake up and there was this freaky humanoid creature just looking at me. Then I woke up and it was in first person, the bed was gone and the lights were off. I got up and looked around and saw the creature again, who ran away through a door. In the door there was a room that in reality was nowhere near the first room. I proceeded to fight the monster with a knife until it ran out the garage.

 

[The Potato Lord]

I've had a few wierd ones. The absolute ierdest one i had started off with me in my house everything is normal and a walk over to the T.V. and start watching some show(can't remember) then for some arbitrary reason I stabbed our white labrador in the throat with a fork and it starts drowning in its blood.I then started telling my dad sorry and trying to say i didn't mean to while the dog is struggling to live He looks at me and says he's dissappointed and tells me to put the dog out of its misery so in tears about what i had to do (in the dream)I slashed the dogs throat with the same fork(that fork was really sharp!) and the dog still doesn't die and eventually i have to stab it many more times until a few minutes later it finally died.I felt Awful when I woke up like i actuallly did it.

Wierd thing is having played and finished bioshock the "mind control test" recording is remarkably similar to that dream.

A lesss scary and wierd one but more videogame related one hapened after playing loZ:Wind Waker.I started on a ship in the middle of the ocean in a storm and its really dark to where i can barely make out the jagged rock's shapes.I sail my boat into this unknown dark cave.upon entering i find my self on foot walking along gided by a dim ling from apparently no source and there's a deep trough of water near my path and i hear something huge and menacing in the water but i can't get any further away from the water and the worst part is the monster never attacked or revealed its self I just woke up so to this day I've never found out what that was.

A more comedic dream (but kinda surprising)I've had was where i was on some ridicuously tall mountain and there's a path wrapping around it. I reach the end of the path and xcome to a chasm with in order a floating conveyor belt, some brick squares some of those grared up and down move ment plat forms and a monkey bars like contraption. i evidently have three lives and have to mario my way across to reach this other mountain with the same kind of path continueing where mine ended.First live, I jump on the conveyor belt but slip off one wasted life...Second life I make it past the conveyor belt and floating brick boxes and I miss the moving platforms.third lufe i make it past all of the obstacles and leap for the path I land on the very edge and am teeetering either way when luigi comes out of nowhere and shoves me off the edge then runs up the path laughing evily.

Thats my three.

 

[soron]

I have a reoccurring dream of shooting lots of ppl. Also some times I wake up halfway and cannot move for some time. The worst is when I'm sleeping with my face in the pillow and can't breath till I'm fully awake and can move again.

 

[Nero5]

I have a lot of wierd dreams involving combat and pain. Sometimes I jump off a building and I get the falling feeling but I only feel the pain of maybe a one and a half meter drop where your feet sting for a bit. Sometimes I have another one where I'm fighting some guy with a knife or something sharp and I'm unarmed and the knife goes through my hand and I sort of feel it touch me but it's kind of distant and I don't feel any pain.

 

[Larenxis]

I think it's cool other people have T-Rex nightmares. I had one once, but it was a skeleton. I must have been 5 or something, but I remember it pretty well. I was in a gala of some sort, and I was near a staircase and a table. This procession of people wearing red and gold and holding fancy parasols and gold vases and stuff came slowly from the staircase, and then a giant (I guess normal sized?) living skeleton of a T-Rex started attacking everyone. I hid under the table, and saw there was a window next to me. I was really afraid, but the T-Rex saw me, and I knew I'd be eaten, so I punched the glass and rolled through. I ran through this weird neighbourhood that was mostly pink and purple, where all the houses were missing their front walls so I could see inside. I found my house, and my dad was washing the car. I figured I should probably do something, so I ran back through the neighbourhood, but before I had returned I saw some kids had chained the T-Rex inside their house and were taming him. I don't really know what the moral of the story is.

 

[hugaahh]

I used to have this dream when I was younger. Kind of random, lol
Im outside playing, and suddenly a trap door opens beneath me.
And I fall down into a big, blue room.
And suddenly a giant robot hand flies out of one of the walls and grabs me, while a female voice sais, "I am the woman who smells toothpaste, and I am your real mom"
And then the hands start shaking me upp and down.

And then I wake up. CREEPY

 

[[HD]Rob Inglis]

I only consider nightmares to be things that bother me, so I really don't have many of those. The last one I had that I can remember was maybe 4-7 years ago when I was 10-13 or something and I just dreamt my family was mugged and murdered and I wasn't able to move and just watch. Not afraid to admit it...I cried.

 

[spiggy]

I dreamt I was Bruce Willis once. Some terrorists took over this very large building with way too few doors for a building of that size. I calculated that it would take 12 minutes to walk from one end of the building to another and there were only two doors, on opposite sides. Anyway, I take my MP5 and go into the building to rescue the hostages. On the way there I have a firefight with some terrorists in what appears to be a classroom of some form. I remember that the terrorists are remarkably bullet-resistant, taking up to 12 shots in the head before they fall. Anyway, I defeat them all and proceed to save the hostages. Unfortunately, the terrorists have set a bomb to go off in 5 minutes and it took me 6 minutes to get to where I am in the building! (not counting the fighting). So the hostages and I book it. Then the dream gets weird. We get to the classroom where I had the firefight earlier and the hostages decide there is no hope of getting out alive so they start singing the American National Anthem. I decide to use my last remaining seconds to not die, grab one of the terrorists uzis, bust down the classroom door and empty the gun into a nearby window. Unfortunately, the window is also unusually bullet resistant and I only manage to crack it with the bullets, so I take the butt of the gun and hit the crack til it breaks. I hop out and help some hostages out, the bomb goes off and I wake up.

 

[zen5887]

Spiggy thats what you get for watching "Die Hard" for 7 hours straight =P

I one had a nightmare about this 'thing' that lived in my grandparents front yard in a burrow. This 'thing' (looked human with really really really long limbs) had bandages all over its face appart from its eyes which were wide open. When I would look I could only see the face and I started freaking out. For some reason I kepted looking making me freak out even more.. Eventualy I woke up and was so freaked out I had to walk around a bit.. I didnt get back to sleep that night

 

[Easykill]

I have had only one nightmare in my life, despite the fact I dream regularly. I seem to have much more control over my dreams than others, if I don't like how something went, I just rewind it and try again. The nightmare I did have was about my phobia, cannibalism. It was based off a movie I saw, and in it, mcdonalds had been using human flesh in their burgers and I find out. Even now, that creeps me out. Random fact: A tell I have that shows I'm creeped out- I instinctively cover my neck, wrists, and the back of my feet and knees.