Auldnoir: Dream Diary

Can just imagine the cartoon womanizer man being either Johnny Bravo or Ryo Saeba, and being absolutely devastated seeing all the women on his flight getting very hot with each other and giving precisely 0% of it to him, for literal hours.

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One of my dreams last night involved me going to sleep in my bedroom, then waking up in a fitness room.

Another involved me being in my room watching footage of what was supposedly some PokĂ©mon fangames from the 2000s, yet they had high polygonal counts and ran at 60FPS, the only thing off being lower-than-normal draw distances. Just before this, I’d turned on my GameCube to a system message being read off by a feminine voice, and also got a visit from some nerdy girl who doesn’t exist in real life.

Another involved the family living room getting a rather small ultrawide TV, apparently made by Vizio, that would automatically turn on when someone walked close enough to it, and when no one was there anymore, would, display a 15-ish second countdown in the top-left corner. If no one came back in this time, it would turn off. If someone did, more time would be added to this countdown. I also recall a late grandparent being around in the house during this dream.

Another involved me playing a nonexistent Ed Edd 'n Eddy game, aesthetically and dynamically kinda like Super Mario Sunshine, where you play as Eddy being instructed by Numbuh One from Codename: Kids Next Door to shoot purple liquid at purple turrets. Each turret required three shots to be taken care of, but if you ran out of ammo and a turret remained at one HP, they’d turn red and look more menacing, and try shooting the player if they were nearby.

Another involved me planning some 3D top-down adventure game with 3D BG objects and 2D sprite objects, sorta like mainline PokĂ©mon Gens 4 and 5. One mechanic was jumping into ventilation shafts to automatically be taken to the other end, like those pipes in the Genesis Sonic games or in Jazz Jackrabbit’s Tubelectric.

Another involved me being at a hotel, where one of the staff members was a snow leopard who could speak lucid human language, but also enjoyed rolling on the floor and being cute like a dog.

Another involved me being around some actual dogs, one being one of the dogs my family had growing up.

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i had a dream that i was going to be living in a strange house principally made out of stained glass. in order to access its second story you had to use a set of stairs that was outside for some reason. there wasn’t even a bathroom up there so if you needed to use it in the middle of the night you had to go outside. i remember i lived with the three Fairies of Light from Touhou and also some guy whose consciousness was contained inside a tiny robotic blimp.
later there was some sort of a house party with a bunch of guys we knew from middle/high school and one of them took a shit in the shower. also Finfin was there i think

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had a stressful nightmare about a The Thing-esque parasite or alien or whatever that had begun assimilating any sort of biological life. it was paranoia-inducing as a single touch could mean you’d become converted, and you had no idea who or what already had been. it could even infect through airborne particles/bacteria or whatever, so the end just kind of felt like a grim inevitability, you just didn’t know when.

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i had an amazing dream where i was playing some sort of sim game balancing meters and resources for a developing kingdom. and the kingdom had an evil king who kidnapped and forcibly married a sweet demure princess, and it immediately made her lose her mind and start executing people who tried to help her and stuff. like there was a scene where a tailor made her an extravagant dress as a show of support and she snapped and ordered his death for wasting resources and ridiculing her with his pity. thats wife city to me.

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I dreamt my dogs got replaced with like evil versions of them that tried to like poison me or something
one of the fake versions was like wounded or something even though they seemed to completely ignore it
the reason i figured out they were evil copies was because i was on a video call with my friends (I don’t know why this was in the dream I don’t think I’ve video called anyone more than like twice ever) and they saw an extra copy of my dogs

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I had a dream that I was eating a Cheeto or something similar, and it caused me to wake right up after making a crack in my new mouthguard IRL.

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Two episodes dream

1: I was in some sort of hotel with a couple of my high school buddies. We were trying to get a lot of documentation in order, because apparently we were going to buy/earn/inherit? some sort of cottage business, and have to run it. While I was relishing the experience, I was also deeply troubled, trying to tell them how I’ve wasted all the years since we last got together

2: I was in some sort of college frat or military group, somewhere with a lot of guys together in close quarters. While I was standing in a corridor, I hear some dude go “Yo, its the Meat Monger!” (this dream was in english) and a lot of them come up to me and hand me frozen burgers. Gritting my teeth, I go around carrying these frozen burgers in my arms until I reach the kitchen, which is packed with a lot of people having lunch (probably college folks) and start putting each burger in a deep fryer, cooking them one at a time. The fryer is full of black beans. As I’m waiting for the first burger to be done, I start looking around a huge pile of plates in front of me, trying to find a clean one that I can place the burgers after they’re done cooking. Some young guy who was eating next to me says something and I reply “yea, yea, I’m twice your age”

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“yo its the meat monger!” made me snort irl i hope next time the burger spirit visits your dreams its kinder to you

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we’ve been thinking about “Yo it’s the meat monger!” constantly the past few days since reading this post

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heavy are the shoulders that carry the burgers

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Dream mainly involved being in/around the area of a school gym. Walking in, I was greeted by a chalkboard sign that called me chubby. In the gym, we had some celebration of an alternate universe version of MADtv that was all-animated, more like Robot Chicken or Cartoon Network MAD, that supposedly ran from 2000-2012 (or 2014?). Part of this included me reading up on it in a book whose paper pages were interactive like a tablet. Sometime after that, the gym had a book fair set up in it. One of the books was dedicated to the Top 10 Kirby romhacks according to its authors, apparently students at whatever school this was, and the cover somewhat resembled those of the “Complete Peanuts” compilations, and contained a screenshot of Dream Land 2 DX with Kirby next to Coo against a red sky with clouds. There was another book whose cover showed Shaggy from Scooby-Doo behind Raven from Teen Titans on the water, and there were some other covers featuring Raven, too.

I also recall part of a nonexistent anime, where the protag tames and rides some feisty ice biome creature. A supporting character then takes off the protag’s arm band, which was apparently the only thing keeping the protag able to get through the previous episodes, causing the ice creature to stop responding to the protag and start attacking them.

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Had a dream about playing around with Kirby 2 DX, and there was this nonexistent secret(?) boss fight against some multi-form fusion of Kracko and Kaboola that I supposedly missed, and whose background tiles and sprites weren’t colorized in the hack. I also recall the level intro skits having SNES-quality backgrounds with parallax, which isn’t even possible in Super Game Boy mode.

There was another dream where Grandpa Max from Ben 10 was saying something, and a flashback story about a married couple with kids getting divorced was shown, then it cuts back to him appearing disappointed.

There was yet another dream where I had to get into some dentist office for an appointment by beating a few other players at some J2ME-esque puzzle game with Mario characters, the device even having just a numpad for control, and I didn’t do very well at it.

And there was yet another dream where I could enter some “night version” of the world in my sleep where the inside of houses were well-lit, but the outdoors were pitch-black aside from a few monocolored entities.

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That’s two Kirby dream posts in a row, you truly are in Dreamland

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We’ve been actually having memorable dreams 2 nights in a row, which is super rare.

Last night we had 2

The first was that I was brought in as a playtester(?) for a “new xenoblade game” (obviously) and it was bad. It was like a cross between disco elysium and persona, except the combat was you playing a drumset rhythm game. It sucked. My subconscious could not create a good video game for me to play and Takahashi seemed disappointed in me for not seeing his vision.

The next dream was that some strange people had broken into my family’s house, except it wasn’t my family’s house, but we all lived there so it was. They were just sort of holding us all hostage, I don’t even know what they wanted and it seemed like they were just a bunch of kids fucking around. I wasn’t too annoyed that they had taken over our house but I was very upset that they made my phone unusable by installing a bunch of malware onto it. I was perfectly content with letting them have the house but come on dude at least let me watch youtube or something.

Briefly after this dream or maybe between them I was able to communicate sort of ‘face-to-face’ with Angel, which was interesting, and there was also a strange third person there who neither of us recognized at all, who quickly left.

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the other night I saw a meme in my dream (a dreme) and thought to myself ‘must remember to recreate this to show Auldnoir when I wake up’

did I remember? did I fuck

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Had a dream that there was this nonexistent Game Boy game from like '93, apparently in the Metroid series, but was more of a traditional platformer with multiple playable characters, one of them being Mickey Mouse. It also seemed somewhat optimized for the Super Game Boy, with different shades for different scrolling BG tiles, which isn’t even possible on that thing–it can only colorize regions of the screen.

I also recall being at some relatives’ place, finding some old newspaper/magazine unrelated to video games, yet having several pages of information related to the cancelled English release of EarthBound Beginnings in 1991. This included what were apparently two prototype cover arts for the game, one of them being for a PAL version. This particular ad for the game was apparently not preserved, so I tried taking photos of it, but one of the people at the place was getting in the way. When I did manage to get away from them, there was this very dog-like Absol getting in my way and sniffing the papers.

I also recall one of the other relatives being some quadruped form of Metroid who could talk.

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Occasionally I dream with people that have passed away, and very rarely its an emotional story, rather me being annoyed or a little shit to them. Case in point, today I dreamed my grandma was back, and her, me, mom, and my sis were all in the kitchen preparing something. Grandma’s meal was really healthy, and my sis made a comment on how that’d help her lose weight. I then mentioned “I don’t think she needs that, given how thin she is right now :))))))” which made both my sis and my mom shuush because I couldn’t let grandma know/remember she was already dead

I told my mom about the dream after waking up and she thought it was pretty funny, just in case anyone is wondering

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There’s a really minor thing I’ve been meaning to ask my spouse his opinion on for days, and I dreamt I had finally done it, and it’s only now that I’m at the computer looking at the relevant tab that I’m like “waiiiiiiiiiit
” :joy:

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