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kane_magus) wrote2008-01-19 01:13 pm
kane_magus) wrote2008-01-19 01:13 pm
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Weird video game-inspired dream
Had another weird dream last night.
This one was video game related. Though it wasn't about any one specific video game, it was a sort of amalgam of several video games, such as Oblivion, Diablo, Sacred, and Dungeon Siege (the one I am currently playing). Basically, it was set in a medieval fantasy atmosphere like those games.
It was another of those fractured non-linear dreams and it wasn't very long, but I'll try to piece together the "story" of the dream.
In the dream, I was the king of this great nation. I'd recently had a kid, a daughter if I recall correctly. In celebration we were having this big party in the castle. During the party, this kind of blue, scraggly imp thing showed up at the party, claiming to have knowledge of some ultimate evil that we'd been hearing about for, like, years or centuries or some such, and which we'd been finding vague hints and clues about more and more recently.
We (meaning me and my most trusted knight advisor, at this point) took the imp-thing and went off to a secret meeting room in the castle and began questioning it. I don't remember what all we asked it or what it said, except that I remember that it eventually revealed that it was itself this ultimate evil. And that's when things went to hell.
After a brief "cutscene" fade-to-black, I was alone in my now utterly destroyed castle, frantically looking around for my child, who was missing. The castle is in ruins and fire is everywhere. I eventually found my trusted knight advisor guy. I can't remember this dude's name at all now, though I'm sure I "knew" it in the dream. He told me that my daughter had been kidnapped by this ultimate evil dude and that everyone else except him and me had been killed. We set off on a quest to find them.
Another fade-to-black. Here is where it gets extremely weird. We were on this really narrow, crumbly stone bridge. Looking backwards, there was no land in sight that was connected to the bridge for what seems like miles. Looking forward, there was this giant castle (and I mean hundreds or thousands of times bigger than the biggest castle in the world IRL). It's obviously the castle of the ultimate evil guy, and it's in pretty bad shape itself. Looking down, there was nothing but swirling gray clouds, and they're probably thousands of miles below. If we fell, we'd fall for days before hitting the clouds, let alone whatever was beneath.
So we were going across this shitty bridge and just when we were about to reach the castle tower to which the bridge was connected (which is one of those kind of things that juts out from the castle proper and is, itself, kind of extended out to hang in the air), the bridge changed from crumbly stone to being really ratty, almost paper-thin cloth.
My knight advisor guy jumped to the tower and continued on, and I jumped to the tower (which is much smaller than it looked from a distance) and I was suddenly hit with a panic attack. I don't think I've ever actually been scared in a dream before now that I can recall. I was half hanging there from this decrepit tower and half standing on this decaying cloth bridge (it's really like someone just had a filthy, decaying bed sheet and was using it as a bridge) all extended out over this thousands of miles worth of open air. And I couldn't move.
My knight advisor guy came back and this was when things get really really weird.
I suddenly "remembered" that this was just a video game (as though I had known it all along), so I tried to quit the game. I did this by looking down at my chest, on which a mirror image of a video game menu screen had appeared. I reached down and touched the "Escape Game" option (not "Exit Game," mind you, but "Escape Game") then clicked the "Yes" option. Nothing immediately happened, though I got the impression in the dream that this was somehow normal and that it usually took a while to leave the game as a matter of course.
So, while I was waiting to leave the game, I started asking my knight advisor guy what happens to him when I leave the game. He, apparently, also realized that it's just a video game and that he's just a character in the game. I asked him if he experiences the passage of time while the game is not actively being played and he responded, too quickly and too forcefully that, NO he doesn't. I called bullshit on this and he finally confessed that it's like he just blacks out, but that he is vaguely aware of time passing until things restart.
Meanwhile, I realized by now that the quitting of the game process hadn't worked for some reason. The knight advisor guy was trying to coax me fully up onto the tower, but I was still too scared to move. Suddenly, I felt something grabbing my leg and then it felt like something was repeatedly kicking me hard in the shin. I don't think I've ever actually felt physical pain in a dream before either (though I know I've had dreams where I've been stabbed or shot or in car accidents or eaten by dinosaurs before). I never saw my attacker except briefly, but I knew it was a skeleton riding some kind of small dragon-like thing. My knight advisor guy was trying to kick it off of me, but he couldn't reach it, so I raised my leg up so that he could reach it, which made my position more precarious.
He eventually kicked it off, but this was when other skeleton dragon riders flew over and bombed the hell out of the tower. The tower was half destroyed and about to fall off, but on the plus side it knocked the top of it off so now there was a nice flat surface for me to fall forward on. I quickly tried the whole "Escape Game" menu thing again, and this time it apparently worked... because that was when I woke up.
That was some messed up crap.
This one was video game related. Though it wasn't about any one specific video game, it was a sort of amalgam of several video games, such as Oblivion, Diablo, Sacred, and Dungeon Siege (the one I am currently playing). Basically, it was set in a medieval fantasy atmosphere like those games.
It was another of those fractured non-linear dreams and it wasn't very long, but I'll try to piece together the "story" of the dream.
In the dream, I was the king of this great nation. I'd recently had a kid, a daughter if I recall correctly. In celebration we were having this big party in the castle. During the party, this kind of blue, scraggly imp thing showed up at the party, claiming to have knowledge of some ultimate evil that we'd been hearing about for, like, years or centuries or some such, and which we'd been finding vague hints and clues about more and more recently.
We (meaning me and my most trusted knight advisor, at this point) took the imp-thing and went off to a secret meeting room in the castle and began questioning it. I don't remember what all we asked it or what it said, except that I remember that it eventually revealed that it was itself this ultimate evil. And that's when things went to hell.
After a brief "cutscene" fade-to-black, I was alone in my now utterly destroyed castle, frantically looking around for my child, who was missing. The castle is in ruins and fire is everywhere. I eventually found my trusted knight advisor guy. I can't remember this dude's name at all now, though I'm sure I "knew" it in the dream. He told me that my daughter had been kidnapped by this ultimate evil dude and that everyone else except him and me had been killed. We set off on a quest to find them.
Another fade-to-black. Here is where it gets extremely weird. We were on this really narrow, crumbly stone bridge. Looking backwards, there was no land in sight that was connected to the bridge for what seems like miles. Looking forward, there was this giant castle (and I mean hundreds or thousands of times bigger than the biggest castle in the world IRL). It's obviously the castle of the ultimate evil guy, and it's in pretty bad shape itself. Looking down, there was nothing but swirling gray clouds, and they're probably thousands of miles below. If we fell, we'd fall for days before hitting the clouds, let alone whatever was beneath.
So we were going across this shitty bridge and just when we were about to reach the castle tower to which the bridge was connected (which is one of those kind of things that juts out from the castle proper and is, itself, kind of extended out to hang in the air), the bridge changed from crumbly stone to being really ratty, almost paper-thin cloth.
My knight advisor guy jumped to the tower and continued on, and I jumped to the tower (which is much smaller than it looked from a distance) and I was suddenly hit with a panic attack. I don't think I've ever actually been scared in a dream before now that I can recall. I was half hanging there from this decrepit tower and half standing on this decaying cloth bridge (it's really like someone just had a filthy, decaying bed sheet and was using it as a bridge) all extended out over this thousands of miles worth of open air. And I couldn't move.
My knight advisor guy came back and this was when things get really really weird.
I suddenly "remembered" that this was just a video game (as though I had known it all along), so I tried to quit the game. I did this by looking down at my chest, on which a mirror image of a video game menu screen had appeared. I reached down and touched the "Escape Game" option (not "Exit Game," mind you, but "Escape Game") then clicked the "Yes" option. Nothing immediately happened, though I got the impression in the dream that this was somehow normal and that it usually took a while to leave the game as a matter of course.
So, while I was waiting to leave the game, I started asking my knight advisor guy what happens to him when I leave the game. He, apparently, also realized that it's just a video game and that he's just a character in the game. I asked him if he experiences the passage of time while the game is not actively being played and he responded, too quickly and too forcefully that, NO he doesn't. I called bullshit on this and he finally confessed that it's like he just blacks out, but that he is vaguely aware of time passing until things restart.
Meanwhile, I realized by now that the quitting of the game process hadn't worked for some reason. The knight advisor guy was trying to coax me fully up onto the tower, but I was still too scared to move. Suddenly, I felt something grabbing my leg and then it felt like something was repeatedly kicking me hard in the shin. I don't think I've ever actually felt physical pain in a dream before either (though I know I've had dreams where I've been stabbed or shot or in car accidents or eaten by dinosaurs before). I never saw my attacker except briefly, but I knew it was a skeleton riding some kind of small dragon-like thing. My knight advisor guy was trying to kick it off of me, but he couldn't reach it, so I raised my leg up so that he could reach it, which made my position more precarious.
He eventually kicked it off, but this was when other skeleton dragon riders flew over and bombed the hell out of the tower. The tower was half destroyed and about to fall off, but on the plus side it knocked the top of it off so now there was a nice flat surface for me to fall forward on. I quickly tried the whole "Escape Game" menu thing again, and this time it apparently worked... because that was when I woke up.
That was some messed up crap.