Dream Diary

[Jess]

for whatever reason we seem to have a lot of dreams about this one job we had in particular. none of the other jobs, just that job

[Jess]

last night we had a dream adjacent to another job we had finally

[MetalPetal]

last night we had a dream adjacent to another job we had finally

having dreams of employment is how you know you are getting older.

[kkzero]

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 Pokémon 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 Pokémon 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.

[kkzero]

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.

[Jess]

had a dream I barely remember that started out with someone who was raised in the wilderness by animals, and ended with an epic magical quest to save the world. They weren't related in the slightest, but were somehow part of the same dream

Also the whole "Saving the world" thing locked it in a secondary timeline, so no one knew what happened

[kkzero]

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.

[kkzero]

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.

[kkzero]

Had a dream where I was with my family and cousins for Thanksgiving. One cousin was with a friend on the couch playing a nonexistent Lego Indiana Jones game for the GameCube, with the former using the prototype controller with the blue A button and green B button. Right as Thanksgiving dinner rolled around, my view was turned to some Wikipedia article, and then I woke up.