weird dream diary

my ridiculous dreams

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Hey I just started a dream journal of my own and I'm finding it hard not to slip into novel forum. It's like I go in and out of writing thoughts down or telling a story? Tell me what u think works better? If you could plz read my first dream journal entry and let me know

Honestly, I put in zero effort in maintaining good writing here. I write notes and draw the sketches in a book by my bed right after waking up, so my notes are usually bad and frequently incomprehensible. Sometimes I fall asleep again in the middle of writing something.

You should do what makes you comfortable. For me, I try to get down as much as I remembered, with a focus on whatever felt the most important. None of this is gonna be super easy when you’re half asleep and I suspect accidentally telling stories is going to be the least of your concerns.Unrelated aside since I’m publishing a non-dream text post here: Queue emptied out and I need to scan again! I’m hoping for some time this weekend but I’ve just brought home a puppy and I’m in the middle of a job switch, so I’m not sure how quickly I’ll get to it. Soon!!

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bad cop

My brother got a DUI and was on probation, which meant that he was banned from driving outside of Bend, Oregon, for two years. My dad and I went to pick him up the day he got off and we got pulled over. The cop immediately pulled out a gun and started barking orders--stand up, get out, on the ground, etc. I hid under the car.

The cop was really shitty and eventually it became clear that he was from a radio show. They all go sit down with Oma and LEAVE ME THERE (my notes are very upset about it). Eventually I get up and go in and scare that guy a lot. His excuse is “crazy wimmin amirite.”

[antipodeart]

This design literally came to me in a dream, and with Sailor Moon Crystal releasing in like two days, it seemed appropriate.

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Since I finally posted that dream, here’s a piece I did based on it.

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sailor moon costumes

I went to an anime convention with a huge group of Sailor Moon cosplayers and I did karaoke of... something I can’t read but looks like “Jumanji.” Everyone’s costumes were pretty though.

One of the later “ones” (I have no idea what this means) was called “Salad has problems too.” aaaaand I can’t read this last line. “& the by was woven grass wtf.”

I haven’t gone to a con recreationally in years I have no idea wtf is up with all the con dreams.

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eve the lion

This is one of those writeups where I kept trying to add details in after the fact, let me try to make some sense out of this mess.

I turned around in the morning and there was a male lion out my window. I closed it and he roared and scared the pants off a pedestrian, then walked north.

I called the zoo, and my phone call got picked up by an “operator robot.” I accidentally told them I was with the military and the forwarded me to someone else at once who told me that the lion had escaped and took the ferry over to me despite there not being a ferry between the zoo and my apartment.

I met the guy I’d talked to on the phone (and the LION) at the ferry terminal. He told me lots of LION FACTS (sic) like that they do bloodwork on lions until a certain age. This one was a young lion named Eve and was a female lion despite looking entirely like an adult male lion. The guy made a ton of really bad “Adam and Eve” jokes, maybe his name was Adam or something.

A second guy, Dr. Ferris, met us at the ferry. The lion had been riding on the roof of the (TINY) ferry and jumped off when we arrived. I jumped off too because I guess I’d been chilling on the roof with a lion because, you know, why not.

The lion “hugged” me (airquotes written out in notes) and I did not have apples (??) According to my notes, the exact same situation had played out the day before, but with a tiger instead of a lion.

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teaching tools

I was teaching people to use the ESC key on laptops using a blackboard and projector. The entire presentation was Secret of Kells-themed. The computers were set in specific locations and numbers, enabling the program (???) to animate across multiple screens, “like a ride at Disney basically.”

Kids loved it!

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literally did it twice

This dream centered around some kind of “TA stuff.” I was “going down” and had to travel a lot but I don’t remember well. You had to do something twice and the second time was easier “not just because of practice but because you literally did it twice, like loosening it up.”

I have no idea what this means.

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very weird orca

My notes can’t decide if this one was supposed to be a video game, a LARP, or real life. I shot a guy with real actual arrows, but he was attacking me with LARP-safe “spell packet” beanbags, which I ignored, so my notes think either

not a LARP,

I’m immune to magic, or

I’m a fucking cheater.

Regardless, loads of people wanted to ruin my day. A group of (something) was attacking me, “telling people my hands were ugly, etc.” You know, the usual. I had a fake disease, IDK.

Notes end with the cryptic phrase “very weird orca.”

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galoshes made of human skin

My notes start with a list of people who were in the dream: Lynda, Tom, Em, me, “etc,” so a bunch of college friends I guess.

We were all cosplaying at some con. Lynda paid for our hotel and I needed to pay her back so instead of money I had a store 3D print galoshes using HUMAN SKIN.

Lynda, like any normal and logical person, immediately put them into the hotel microwave, where they MELTED to LIQUID, conveniently somehow in a glass. Em dared me to drink it and I was (THANKFULLY) like “EW NO” and promptly woke up.

Tom was playing drums and kept doing something I can’t read. I had a flute, Em had a saxophone, and we were all cosplaying something from some anime I have never seen. My notes suggest “SNK.”

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tentacles

I was in a big, tall building. The elevator had a trash can in it. We pissed off some Lovecraftian horror and it started (throwing? I can’t read it) a table through it (the elevator). We barely escaped but ended up on a higher floor of the building and tentacles were coming out everywhere. I got away by hiding.

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powers from the spiky dick gazebo snake deity

Miranda, Ronan, Raven, and some other lady I didn't recognize had been given godlike powers from some serpent deity. A bitchy DM logged on and made us give them up in some series of weird scenes. She RPed choking them (can’t read this) for exactly the required amount of time and then would would off.

Zach showed up during this, expressed regret to Andy, and asked her to move in with him. She tentatively agreed, but Zach kept being all touchy with brown hair girl (the one I didn't recognize).

The snake deity from the first part of the dream totally looked like a dick with huge spikes on it. When it gave people powers, they would also grow antennae.

Uh here’s the dick spike snake deity. My notes specify “like a gazebo.” A gazebo of spiky dicks. You’re welcome.

Andy was thin and unhealthy-looking. She was supposed to be a little bit older but didn't look like it.

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musical cat mask

I was in a (symphonic) band and our teacher/director was out so we had a substitute. He sat in the back of the room and used an overhead projector to put up music on the wall instead of handing out sheet music. The last song we played had no clarinet or flute parts at all so half the band was pissed. He told us that we should have “copied the music” and we were like

There’s nothing to copy and

We didn’t know about it until just now.

The sheet music (that he didn’t hand out???) inexplicably included a furry blue cat mask, so we copied that instead of the music to troll the teacher.

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i would watch this movie

This is labelled “Disneyfied Aladdin DR” with a bunch of question marks, and then “Probably offensive I’m sorry.” LOL oh god.

Protagonist was a Jasmine-like figure who had long, slightly wavy, dark yellow-green hair. I think it might say yellow with a green sheen? Notes say “I don’t know what she was,” it means DR character class. My best guess in the notes is Scavenger/Politician which is a pretty odd combo.

The streets were dirty and people had lost hope. Jasmine-lady was trying to organize them. She was the most concerned with getting medical arrangements for the sick, because current situation apparently involved this guy.

“basket of dirty-looking cloth”

She was also interested in stabilizing the economy by “linking cost of their money to some weights.”

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hi from the future

I was at my mom’s house IN THE PAST somehow and it turns out that there was an Oregon DR game back then and they ran into our front yard on accident. I saw several people I knew in the future and was like HI HI FROM THE FUTURE and they were confused.

Mom was building a deck and I was helping.

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music video made by the atheists

I was at some anime con or some shit and people kept asking me to draw stuff from Homestuck but I couldn’t remember what any of the characters looked like. Later I watched some long music video “the atheists made,” which was just “O Holy Night” with zero lyrical changes. There were tons of characters I didn’t know (I’m unsure if this means at the convention or in the music video) but most notably, a cute old lady with like eight arms who was “controlling everything” using a control panel, from a spaceship in orbit.

“shit was happening on these screens.”

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eating disorder-triggering magic powers

Weird dream that I didn’t remember immediately.

I had some kind of magic powers and could control the placement of fat in my body as though I was sculpting clay. I was changing my legs and ADDING fat for some reason? I think it was temporary for some costume I was doing.

I have some eating disorder/body dysphoria-type issues and my notes mention it was kinda triggery. :(

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gnaw zombie is a full time job

I can hardly read this.

I was playing a zombie NPC at a LARP event. My friend Staci was there and playing her character Destiny, who was only called Destiny in like, fucking middle school, and isn’t a LARP character, but ok. Destiny, the character, was ICly getting married but everyone was super into it and acting like it was a real wedding. Meanwhile, I was on an NPC shift from 12-8 and had to be a crappy “gnaw zombie” the whole time. My notes attempt to give me the zombie’s stats but I can’t read it and it is really unimportant despite what my half asleep brain thought.

I was apparently planning to play Zeb--a similarly non-LARP middle school RP character, Destiny’s counterpart--later on in the event. After my NPC shift, I went to shower and while I was showering, people attacked the bathroom like it was IC. My towel was in tatters and something something something I think I fell asleep trying to write this. There’s also a REALLY unhelpful drawing.

I have no idea what the heck this is or even which direction on it is up. It is labelled “buttons” with an arrow. Maybe it’s a snowman?