Dream Song: Tom Sawyer by Rush
July 26, 2017 0 comments Article Dream Songs
This was in the background of a dream. I only remembered part of it and recognized hearing it before, but not the artist or more than one lyric. I must have heard it in the past week and forgot that I did.
Update 10/11/17:
I think this is where the song was from. I don't think I saw the trailer until later on, but it was probably in the background before my dream. I thought it was originally from a coworker who is a Rush fan, but the timing of this trailer makes more sense:
REM Cycles
July 19, 2017 1 comment Article Agents, Dream Notes, Dream Tech, Observer Dreams, Plot Dreams, Reoccurring Dreams, The Airport
From a speech-to-text note recorded when half asleep:
Dude with blue hat and beard
"Thanks, but I'm just going to wear the shirt purple tie-dye shirt."
Homeless girl in the restroom trying to wash things with a weird scrubber.
Don't want to take this, she's nice, but she's desperate. DVD player.
Went back to the parents at the airport. "Have you seen that guy, again? Somebody left this." It was a DVD file and an audio recording of some time and the guy's father or whatever said, "These are his REM cycles." I said, "These are his what?" It sounded like heartbeats mixed in with breathing.
The DVD was partly visual. Something weird was happening with his teeth, but when he would enter the dreamworld, he would go, "Oh, my! Oh, my! What the? This is crazy! This is wild!"
I didn't say it aloud in the dream, but I was very intrigued by the idea that this guy was part of a program – that he was trying to communicate that I was part of it, too. I just don't remember and I can't remember at this time. Well, he asked me in the restroom when I found him, but he asked me something about remembering something and I don't remember.
Note: The premise of the dream was that this dude with the blue hat and beard cornered me in the restroom and tried delivering me a message. He was surprised I could see him THIS TIME. Also, he was on the run from "agents" and was able to keep one step ahead of them. He told me something that involved remembering, but I couldn't remember what he said.
Note: I dreamed of this scenario again months later.
Hacker in the Stream
July 19, 2017 0 comments Article Dream Games, Dream Notes, Dream Tech
There was a hacker involved in the stream. Something to do with Facebook and sending emails to Facebook friends from work saying I had left the country and I wouldn't return.
I remember playing some game at the time that involves an RV on top of some glass of some sort and I had to build on top of it so the glass wouldn't break. I don't get it, but I was angry I had to stop playing video games to deal with the hacker.
Is This Part of the Game?
July 11, 2017 0 comments Article Agents, Dream Games, Dream Tech, Training Dreams
I'm writing this weeks after I dreamed it, so here goes…
In waking life, I had just bought a PSVR, but I hadn't set it up, yet.
I remember being in a house and knowing it was some new VR technology where the AI gets used to the neural pathways of the player (like that one Black Mirror episode) and the characters and environments get more realistic as time goes on. I remember tips about shooting and was a little prepared. I could hear the researchers in the room as I played.
The first few enemies looked like old-school 3D games like Resident Evil 4 and were easy to shoot. I remember thinking I could see old-school 3D pistols, but it felt like Vive hand controllers. I remember that the end of the level had a boss (this one was some middle-aged heavy-set blond lady) that someone in the lab said everyone fails and gets killed by her. I used a virtual wall to take cover – something other players don't usually do because they don't think about the environment in a 3D way at first – and defeated her.
I went through the house and into a kitchen with white cabinets and a hardwood floor. I was so concerned about shooting my enemies, I didn't explore as much as I would normally. I did open one cabinet (similar action and feeling to a Vive) just to see if I could and there were supplies. Each level featured new characters with different actions. It started with shooting standing people, then moving people who shot back, then characters who would take strategic cover. Each new level had more detailed characters as well and they looked like real people eventually. Even my weapons were becoming more lifelike in weight and feel.
I went to the basement and there was a new character. I threw a grenade that I crafted with the materials in the cabinets and drawers at him, but it missed and bounced near the stairs. The character went over and poured a 5-gallon jug of gasoline on it and near me and lit a match. I didn't think I could hit the moving character, so I shot the bomb to make it explode. I was too close and the explosion burnt my left arm. It BURNED and left blisters. I thought it was so awesome that the game was so well designed, I could feel injuries!
Later, I remember different people and crowds and I couldn't tell if I was still in the dream. I no longer heard the people in the lab, but I remember an "Agent" character that might have been a "Man in Black" that I was for sure was an enemy in the dream. He reached for his gun and I got up and shot him…but not really. The guy was taking out a cell phone and I was pointing an invisible gun at him. The guy to my right looked at me as if I were crazy.
The coolest thing about this dream was that there were so many game dynamics from leveling, to character types, to looting and crafting, etc. It needed a plot, though.