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Post by Ex on Sept 6, 2019 21:31:57 GMT -5
anayoI've read a few times that when you start chronicling your dreams, you begin to remember them more often. How many hours sleep do you average per night?
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Post by anayo on Sept 7, 2019 7:31:05 GMT -5
anayo I've read a few times that when you start chronicling your dreams, you begin to remember them more often. How many hours sleep do you average per night? 4/5 of the time I only remember my dreams for a really short while after I wake up. I began writing them down sometime in 2015. That's the only reason I had that list of "dream headlines". I think I average 7 hours per night. I set aside enough time to get 8 but usually wake up for a random hour or so between 1 and 3 in the morning. My dreams seem to get way more crazy and detailed when I go to the gym for an hour the preceding day. Maybe the physical exertion does weird things to my brain waves.
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Post by toei on Sept 24, 2019 20:55:55 GMT -5
I dreamed that I found these two games I'd never of heard of before in some random stores: they were called GTA - not Grand Theft Auto, just GTA - and GTA 2, but they featured the cast of Virtua Fighter Kids, and they had some kind of complicated Engrishy subtitles that acknowledged that while also trying to pretend like GTA was an acronym (something like FiGhTers VirtuA Kids or some nonsense). The release date said 1997, and it showed some very crisp, but very polygonal 3D on the back of the box. I was very surprised that there was a pair of VF-related games from that era that I'd never heard of before. They cost 9,99$ each, so I bought both, thinking I'd check out their value on ebay, since they must be worth a lot. The boxes were small and shaped unlike any game box I've seen, and contained dark gray cartridges. I then realized they were for an obscure handheld, the Google Playdia, but I wasn't sure whether I had one. If not, I was just going to order one when I got home.
So yeah, as you can see, it's just a random mishmash of names and images; the Playdia was an obscure educational console by Bandai, and it sounds pretty close to Stadia; '97 fits with the VF Kids characters getting spin-offs (though I couldn't tell from the back of the boxes what kind of games they were), and GTA seems like my brain was just reaching for a video game title it had in store.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 24, 2019 21:02:06 GMT -5
Google Playdia cracked me the heck up. You reading a bunch of articles before bed? That's a funny and very specific dream.
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Post by toei on Sept 24, 2019 22:39:15 GMT -5
Not even. It's like a random memory dump. But I remembered it well because I thought about this thread when I woke up and told myself I should post it.
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Post by anayo on Sept 25, 2019 5:42:31 GMT -5
I dreamed that I found these two games I'd never of heard of before in some random stores: they were called GTA - not Grand Theft Auto, just GTA - and GTA 2, but they featured the cast of Virtua Fighter Kids, and they had some kind of complicated Engrishy subtitles that acknowledged that while also trying to pretend like GTA was an acronym (something like Fi Gh Ters Virtu A Kids or some nonsense). That totally sounds like something a Japanese developer would do, though.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 25, 2019 10:33:14 GMT -5
toei: Yeah, a lot of my dreams can be specifically tied to something I did or read in the previous day or so. Not always, but a lot of times, I'll wake up and be like, "Yep, I know why I had that dream."
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Post by anayo on Oct 3, 2019 4:21:15 GMT -5
toei : Yeah, a lot of my dreams can be specifically tied to something I did or read in the previous day or so. Not always, but a lot of times, I'll wake up and be like, "Yep, I know why I had that dream." That happens to me all the time.
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Post by anayo on Oct 6, 2019 9:37:57 GMT -5
I was at an indoor flea market. There was a black woman running a cluttered hut full of old miscellaneous items such as books and old colorful plastic toys. Helping her were a few younger black girls. I assumed it was a family-run operation. Sprinkled in the midst of all her wares were old video games. Some of the games had their own specialized glass cases, but others were just strewn about with other items (like Gamecube games randomly mixed up with DVD movies.) None of them had any priced stickers so I just began filling a basket with whatever looked interesting. If she wanted a reasonable price I’d buy them, if not I’d put them back. I picked up: - Mario Kart Double Dash and Zelda Windwaker bundled together in a double case (similar to the Windwaker + Metroid Prime combo pack IRL) - Eternal Darkness Sanity’s Requiem and some other title I can’t remember also bundled together in a double case. In the back of the store, behind a glass case were all these colorful cardboard boxes. They looked similar to those Pokemon card packs you can find at Wal-Mart, the ones where they will apparently cannibalize other card products (usually removing all the rare cards) then repackage them for sale. Except these ones had the Sega Saturn logo on them. It was as though some store in the 90’s had bundled a bunch of Saturn games together to sell them all at once. I was reading the spine of one of them and it had about six game titles listed on it. I don’t remember any of them except that one had a blurb afterward reading, “A new RPG from ATLUS” and had a sterile looking CGI picture of an anime dude with a spiky haircut and a sword. This same glass case also had a plastic tub full of iron-on patches of logos and characters to put on your clothes. One of them said SONIC SATURN in the same font as the Sega Saturn logo and showed Sonic running through Green Hill Zone picking up rings. I doubled back to the middle of the hut where the cash registers were and saw something else under the glass case at the main counter. It was two identical fat cardboard boxes that said something like, “Sega Saturn press release kit”. I knelt to investigate more closely and saw the artwork on the front of the box displayed a bunch of games in jewel cases (not long boxes like IRL. I rationalized this must have been before they worked out the final packaging for North American Saturn games). The front artwork was intended to show all the cool games coming out for the Sega Saturn. Prominently displayed in the center was Panzer Dragoon. The word “TRILOGY” was written next to it, then X’d out, signifying that only the first title was ready. Next to that was the Master Chief’s helmet from Halo, but the game wasn’t called Halo, it had some other name that was 3 or 4 words long. The last title I remember seeing was Shenmue. Ryu was on the front of the game case looking at the viewer with a determined expression. By now I was feeling a little overwhelmed, because I knew I’d have to ask the owner or her younger helpers to unlock at least two glass cases. Also, I had filled my basket with other stuff (mostly games and merch I can no longer remember) without knowing what any of it cost. She may well have hopped on eBay, chosen the highest “sold” price, and called it a day. I was approaching the owner’s cash register and she began to walk away to help another patron with something. I got her attention and tried to warn her I was about to come up with her cash register with a bunch of stuff that would probably be time consuming to ring up. Also, I didn’t know what any of it would cost. She said something like, “Well, I would sell Shadow the Hedgehog for about $20.” I made a face because that didn’t sound like such a great deal. Then she said, “Get (name) to ring you up.” and one of her younger helpers got behind the cash register. Then the sound of my ceiling fan cut through the flea market, the basket full of games vanished from my hands, and I was awake.
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Post by anayo on Dec 13, 2019 7:36:41 GMT -5
I dreamed that someone on the Facebook marketplace lent me a box full of games so I could decide if I wanted to pay his asking price of $200 for them. (Now that I think about it that’s a weird thing to trust a stranger online with.) The box contained a massive stack of Super Nintendo cartridges labeled “DOOM TROOPERS”. Doom Troopers was a pen and paper RPG which would use your Super Nintendo as a television-based Dungeon Master and dice-roller. I was only interested in these for their resale value but couldn’t find them anywhere on eBay using my smartphone. There must have been 20 of these “DOOM TROOPERS” carts. Each one had a different chapter number and subtitle teasing the campaign it contained, and they were all in great shape. Another item in the box was a bootleg Super Famicom cartridge with a revolving cylinder on the very top of the cart displaying various logos for all the games contained inside. One of them read “PUYO PUYO” in Hiragana and another showed a cute pixellated witch, probably Cotton. I kept digging in the box and found a Nintendo Switch. Then I decided the Switch all by itself was worth at least $200, so I would pay the guy his asking price for it.
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