i had a dream last night where i was at a theme park, trying out a series of roller coasters with a bunch of people. the attraction in question was a series of coasters of varying intensity that you rode one after the other. i remember that one of them was a big one with a bunch of drops and inversions that looked scary. when i went to get on it, though, it turned out mei from overwatch was one of the riders, and she offered to hold hands with me to help me with my nerves. it was really sweet.

the coaster turned out to be a ton of fun, so i went on the thing with mei again.

I was in a black void... Absolutely nothing, as far as I could see, apart from myself.

I waved my right hand in front of me, and it cut through the black, like it was smoke. I could see a forest. I waved my hand up into the sky, and was able to move the sun and the moon around. I could bring them closer, or push them farther away.
I floated high above the world, and was able to control the seasons, and the flow of time itself. to the dawn of creation.
I looked behind me, and could see a meteor, larger than earth coming toward it.
I grabbed it, and chucked it as hard as I could...
At this point I had to wake up... because I just tossed the cat off the bed.

That is a great dream, but the best part is the ending.

Poor kitty, though. #CatMeteor

I had gotten up to realize I was in a different place. Smaller, enclosed. Like a closet, Not much room to move around. No door either.

I got up, looked out the window, and the view was nothing but white.
Not snow... just white.
I pushed against one of the walls, and it opened up like a door. I was now out on the front porch. the view was still nothing but white, with the exception of the porch itself.

I just rested on the railing, and said: Sheesh! I've been here too long... Even my dreams are getting dull.

So, I'm wandering through the ruins of a very destroyed city.
Alone... Looking around for any signs of life.

I trip, and hit my head. As I'm blacking out, I feel something grip my hand tight, and I hear the following song coming from an unknown source:


When I was a young boy, My father, took me into the city, to see a marching band.
He said, "Son when you grow up, Would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the d***ed?
He said "Will you defeat them? Your demons, and all the non-believers, the plans that they have made?
"Because one day I'll leave you, A phantom to lead you in the summer, to join The Black Parade."
Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me. And other times I feel like I should go.
And through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets. And when you're gone we want you all to know.
We'll carry on, and though you're dead and gone believe me, Your memory will carry on.
We'll carry on, and in my heart I can't contain it, the anthem won't explain it.

A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams, your misery and hate will kill us all.
So paint it black and take it back, let's shout it loud and clear. Defiant to the end we hear the call.

To carry on, we'll carry on.
And though you're dead and gone believe me, your memory will carry on.
And though you're broken and defeated, your weary widow marches.

On and on we carry through the fears, disappointed faces of your peers, take a look at me cause I could not care at all.
Do or die, you'll never make me because the world will never take my heart go and try, you'll never break me we want it all, we wanna play this part.
I won't explain or say I'm sorry, I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar, give a cheer for all the broken.
Listen here, because it's who we are, I'm just a man, I'm not a hero, just a boy, I'm not a hero
I Don't Care!

The world goes completely black at this point, When the world comes back, I find that I'm gazing off a cliff into an endless ocean of fire, Something detonates in the background. I fall to my knees, and a strong feeling of sadness overcomes me.
I woke up shortly afterward.

I know this song from somewhere... where have I heard it? I'm certain that I couldn't come up with it in my dream.

Sounds like the song is Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. I'm only vaguely familiar with this group, but it's pretty cool that you have most or all of the lyrics memorized (or else the ability to learn songs that you haven't heard before just by sleeping!).

My subconscious nighttime musings haven't been very exciting lately.

A few weeks ago I had a dream where I went to see a dwarf (an actual man of diminished stature, although he kind of looked like them). I had helped his daughter help him make a Web site for their neighborhood homeowners' association (something that I've done for my own HOA), but she'd gone away to Florida State University and wasn't available to help. Unfortunately, their home had been vandalized, and these vandals wrote unkind comments all over the doors, windows, and walls of the home.

The girl's name was Susanna, although she looked nothing like the Susanna I know in real life. A lot of other details didn't make a lot of sense - apparently the house was in my old neighborhood, which doesn't even have an HOA. However, nobody ever said my dreams had to make sense in any way.

Just looked that song up on youtube after seeing your reply...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pInrJ72eeUU
boy that sent chills down my spine... It's a perfect match to what I heard in my dream.
...Good song though, though definitely has some Gothic overtones. Looking up My Chemical Romance, they do a lot of music like this.
...But, now I'm off track.

Certainly an interesting dream you had too.
It's weird how the brain jumps from point to point like that, isn't it? And almost seamlessly. Even if in a nonsensical manner.

That bit about the unkind comments reminds me of one... &$%!ing strange one I had a couple of nights ago.
I had gotten up to find that the walls had all stuff written in blood all over them. I reach toward one to check one of the words written to see what it actually is, and all of a sudden a swirling vortex forms from the lettering. I walk through and realize that I've somehow made my way into an old, run down, mansion.

The gateway closes behind me.
I spot something in the distance. Some form of shadow.
After a few minutes of analyzing it. and trying to figure out what it is. It jolts forward toward me to reveal that it is Sonic the hedgehog from that Sonic.EXE creepypasta. at this point, it is in my face.
I jump backward, and grab the first thing I can get my hands on (Which turns out to be the transmission out of a Dodge truck) and begin swinging it like a sword (Which would be impossible, considering the size of the thing).
Cutting Sonic off at a demonic sounding interpretation of the words "Your too slow" I begin just wailing on him with the transmission. Eventually I stop, he's on the ground bleeding profusely at this point, He gets up, and starts walking away toward a nearby computer, While saying: "This should...have never....been attempted...*Cough*"
At this point I approach the computer he just went in to, take off the maintenance access panel, and start heating up a soldering iron. I hear sonic say: "Man, this just isn't my day!"

At this point, I woke up, for whatever reason, I was on the verge of laughing. Something about it just seemed to end up funny.

Last night I dreamed that a girl asked to marry me*. It was one of those "propose to someone in public" things - in this case, in church**! It was sort of an arranged marriage, as I had never met her before (whether in real life or in the dream world). She was slightly on the chubby side, but she looked really sweet. I stammered and said maybe, being the indecisive person that I can be. I thought it might be prudent to go on a date or something before agreeing to spend our lives together.

* No, it wasn't the other way around. This is a bit of an oddity in heterosexual relationships in the Western world, but then again, arranged marriage isn't exactly the norm here either.
** In terms of physical layout and decoration (but not behavior!), this church was a strange conglomeration of every church I've previously been to.

I seldom dream about video games, but last night I dreamed about video games. I was watching a college football game, and the game had just reached halftime. Since I didn't want to watch the studio talking heads yak about other football games, I turned on my Wii (or maybe the Switch I don't have). The video game seemed to be a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but set a few years in the future. The story began in Link's house. Inside, Ilia* was reclining on the couch, and there was another character outside, but otherwise no one was nearby. Link's house resembled the treehouses in Kokiri Forest in Zelda 64, except no one lived nearby. Link was on the computer (yes, really) and received a message that Hyrule was in grave danger (that happens sometimes). In this time of tumult, the King of Hyrule was threatening to invoke the secret Article Zero of the Hylian constitution, which allows him to take "emergency powers" and presumably override other articles of the constitution. Link also learned that in this timeline, he was not a "legendary hero" - instead, that title belonged to Alm from Fire Emblem Echoes/Gaiden, and they would have to work together to defeat whatever menace Hyrule was facing. After a bit more discussion, the game took you outside Link's house. This area was kind of like a cross between the Twilight Princess Faron Woods and A Link to the Past's Dark Woods - a dark, creepy wooded area. In the dream, I knew the football was about to resume. I finally reached a point in the game where I could save and quit, so I did exactly that.

* I know what inspired this. It arose from a previous discussion about the bones of the pelvic girdle - specifically, the ilia. I know what inspired some of the other off-the-wall aspects of this dream, but they're a bit more obvious.

i'm going to attempt to remember all of the stuff that happened in this dream, as i've got 30 minutes before i get ready to go to work. it was probably about as complex as the tetramonde dream i had a while ago.


i dreamed this morning that i went to go to a restaurant. when i get there, i think i... find a virtual reality game of some sort that's an obstacle course. it gives me the ability to fly and glide, and i've got to make it to the end of the rooms and defeat the boss. it seems like i can quicksave in it, so i basically use that to make it through and get the ending i want. for example, one of the endings involves the world being destroyed, and i don't want that. i keep doing it until i get the result i want, which means me and the other people in my group get to sit down and eat. keep in mind that none of these people are anybody i know.


everyone, except for me, i guess, ends up sitting down and getting their food. there is one set of people, however, who the owner refuses to serve- it turns out he's a nazi sympathizer or something, despite looking like your average coffee shop guy, and he won't serve them because their grandfather fought the nazis back in world war II. since i didn't get any food, i decide to just drift around with the flight ability i still have from the game somehow. i go in circles around the shop, and i see the owner is eating in a room behind the wall. when i see him, i flip the bastard off, and he doesn't respond. i glide around a few times before deciding i've had enough. the guy who runs the place also has a section where you can buy used games, and i look at a n64 and some games with a coworker of mine. the owner, as revenge for flipping him off, has an employee accuse me of stealing. the cops get called and i'm sentenced to my punishment: an impossible obstacle course with sadistic difficulty.


basically, there are a few events you have to run out of a pool chosen at random, most of which i can't remember. if you win, you go free, but if you fail any of the objectives you must start over. i keep trying to get past the last event, which is a big arena fight that for some reason plays like smash bros. it's a gauntlet of opponents that you have to beat, but what they don't tell you is that it never ends no matter how well you do. i remember trying so many times to clear this event, failing, and being sent back to the start. i'm not the only one in the course, but because we keep failing, we're all at different stages of the thing. all the while, the owner of the restaurant is taunting us, telling us we'll have our freedom if we win.


however, the cops show up and bust the owner and his cronies who run this gig. it turns out that there were legions of people trapped in this maze, and that they were held under conditions worse than being a prisoner. they were almost never fed, they almost never slept, and they were never allowed to go to the bathroom. the real cops free us all, letting us escape. i next find myself in a church, with many of the guards who ran the maze there begging for forgiveness. i do find it in me to forgive them, and my dad calls me. he tells me he's heard about what happened, and he's arranged it with my work that i get some paid time off to recover from the stress of this punishment.


everything after that is a blur, really. my friends and i hang out, and we see this girl who my buddy is making out of character, untoward comments towards. i follow her out the door to apologize for that, and she offers to walk home with me. we try to cross the street in a busy city at some point, at which point she summons a flying thing to fly us back home. as we ascend, suddenly the scene cuts to her looking in a magic mirror- it turns out she was the servant of a spirit who was looking for the chosen one, and i am apparently it. what for, i don't know, but there it is, i guess.