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i design games in my sleep – jestermax

jestermax

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Registered: 06-21-2006
i thought it would be a neat idea for people to write down any neat dreams they've had that they can remember (clean dreams that aren't in book format ). i started writing my dreams down in a book a while ago but i left it at home so i don't have it with me (i've been staying with my dad for the past week). here's one that i wrote down at work. if anyone's ever seen the later series of the show "Reboot" or sliders then you'll have a clue what i'm talking about.
i was travelling to different worlds via a portal that opened at some interval, and this time i came to some western world. i won't bore you with the minor details but this town had some sort of evil badguy who basically owned the town so i decided to miss my next portal jump and save the town. i had a "6-shooter" and i fought the badguy's henchmen and then him (it was like a "BOSS" deal). at some point i did some max payne, slowmotion thing and the hammer on my gun slowed down and i got a headshot on him (no blood or anything lol ) and that was all i can remember. come to think of it though... it links up with another dream i had with the same theme... wow.

ANYWAYS, a LOT of times my dreams would make really neat videogames so i was wondering if anyone else had dreams like that.

CPUFreak91

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I don't usually get dreams like that. Usually I get profetic, deja vu, or warning dreams. All of them freak me out when they come true (or the warning ones make sense as I really try to keep them from comming true) but less so nowadays.

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jestermax

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daydreams aren't really the same thing. i don't know too much about them but i don't think they're as far into the subconsious as night dreams are. not that they're not still fun though
Mack

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I dream about levels or specific areas in the game, many a time I've awoken and scrambled to write down what I experianced.
jestermax

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WHOA, i had crazy dreams all weekend, but mostly they were last night. I had somewhere around 4-5 consecutive nightmares in a row (sometimes they even connected into each other). I'm like a zombie today, just thinking about what happened in them, lol. i had so much to write down in my dream log that it took up several pages (it's a small paged book).
Lazarus

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I have had a very long and colorful history of dreams.

And nightmares, brrr! It's strange, but I often have the exact same nightmares that I've had before.

I rememember one dream, I was driving down some road in our car(that was illegal, btw ), with the rest of my family in the car, and there were all these bags of penny rolls. Then my Mom handed me one of the bags and I woke up.

I also dream a lot about going to the library . I like to read, and so I'll dream about going to one and checking out all these books(You've never seen so many Hardy Boys jammed into one bag!), and then I wake up and am so disappointed.

And when I was younger(10-12) I had so many weird dreams about running through all these different places(housing construction, grandparents backyard, others) with my Dad and 2 older brothers chasing me and chasing me. I never understood those, but I kept having them and having them.

And as I've turned 14 and 15, I've had several dreams that are... well strange is all I can say. One really weird one is where I found myself making out with some girl... then I woke up. I never related that one to my family, obviously. *We sometimes tell about our dreams in the morning*

My brother always tells us about these dreams he has about plenty of guns and plenty of shooting. He had a lot of dreams like that, most of them would have made fun video games.

Don't you just hate it when you have a good dream and then you wake up and can't remember it? That really makes me mad.

Lazarus

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jestermax

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actually, most of my dreams are lucid dreams. meaning that i'm aware that i'm dreaming and can use active parts of my brain to some extent. The downside is that if i'm having a nightmare, then it's more intense and will affect me longer when i'm awake (i actually got nervous when i used an elevator today because it was too much like my dream where the elevator crashed).
An up side though, is that i can wake myself up if i don't like the dream.
buddboy

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whoa sweet... sounds cool. haven't had many dreams lately, they were mostly when i was younger. i can remember one REALLY OFTEN recurring dream sort of vaguely, its just this basic concept. its kind of weird tho, and sort of like a nightmare. its kind of hard to explain what happens tho, because i don't know how to put into words what happens. =D

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#include <spazz.h>
int name()
{
char name['B','u','d','d','B','o''y']
}
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penny

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I had this dream the other night. At first I just thought it was weird, but then I realized there was meaning to it. (I don't think one could make a game of it though)

I lived in a tree house and these "treasure hunters" started advancing toward the house. They each looked like Branden Fraser in Indiana Jones outfits and the were bent on getting rich quick, yet they were sluggish and easily misguided. As they climbed the tree to approached the front door, I began to panic. They would take all my stuff which I had a hidden in a small safe that sat on the kitchen counter next to the toaster. They burst through the door just as I finished moving the safe into a nearby cupboard.
They never made eye-contact, just started taking things apart in the living room, looking for loot. I tried to talk to them, but there was no reasoning. Finally I said to myself, yet purposfully out-loud, "It's ok, there's always that chest of gold by the creek. oops." Instantly and as mindlessly as they entered, they left; heading for the creek. I felt safe and then woke up.

It hit me at lunch. The "treasure hunters" were me. I often waste too much time mindlessly following after ideas/projects (random thinker I am) which I think are profitable, but then am quickly diverted to something else that whets my palette.


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