A dream I had...
Italianmagic
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<div class="IPBDescription">intense.</div>So yeah, after i woke up in the middle of the night i tired to go back to sleep. And I had a NS Dream.
Nothing bizarre other than the fact i was not "playing" rather spectating and it was not on any map i've ever played or seen. This dream was visually and audibly intense.
So it was a 'last man standing' deal where everyone else died and one guy was trying to stay alive as long as possible. This room was filled with ledges on both side but columns had fallen breaking some of the ledges. this mid-size room was about 8 stories high in a underground setting with mid-lit red and blue lights. a small to medium amount of infestation is present.
This marine was on the top jumping his way down while the other team mates were using their mics trying to help him navigate. after the series of jumps he reaches the second floor area and runs into a dark blue poor-lit room that is in a 'S' shape. beyond the walls you can hear gorges dropping and building chambers. the marine then crouches trying to find a way passed without being noticed. he peers around the corner and sees a few gorges with 4 OC's in the process of building with a DC.
A fade is heard coming around on the gorge's side, so the marine quickly dashes for a dark corner to hide. the fade flies to the other side of the wall and glitch-swipes and hits him through the wall then comes to the other side blocking the marine from progressing in his ninjaness. But the fade lets him live and the marine starts dashing through the 'S' Cavern. Gorges start to plant OC's closer up to where the marine was blockaded. he runs past them and the other OC's are just finishing to be built but is not shot by their spikes.
He runs to a room with control panels in the center and three doors angled like 3 adjacent sides of an octagon in front of the controls. he starts to push the controls and and the doors open (like wing doors) and it's the ready room. one door for the marines(left), community(center), and aliens (right). He tries to run in the doors but is blocked by an invisible wall. so he just runs around pushing the buttons opening and closing the doors until the fade comes and blink-swipes him. My dream then wanders off something totally unrelated.
but yeah, i thought this was interesting because it was so visual and audio intense on a map I believe not to exist. It was just like how NS1's engine with physics and game play elements, just with better textures and higher poly's. I just found it weird because I haven't played NS1 in a bit and have been preoccupied with school and work, so it popped up out of the blue.
Oh yeah, on a weird note.
When my mind half awoke later, where i gain the knowledge that I'm awake, my mind was still audibly active and I heard someone shuffling through my room slowly getting closer to me, after about 5-10 seconds of listening to it I force my eyes open and search around finding no-one in sight and no more shuffling. that was kinda creepy.
Nothing bizarre other than the fact i was not "playing" rather spectating and it was not on any map i've ever played or seen. This dream was visually and audibly intense.
So it was a 'last man standing' deal where everyone else died and one guy was trying to stay alive as long as possible. This room was filled with ledges on both side but columns had fallen breaking some of the ledges. this mid-size room was about 8 stories high in a underground setting with mid-lit red and blue lights. a small to medium amount of infestation is present.
This marine was on the top jumping his way down while the other team mates were using their mics trying to help him navigate. after the series of jumps he reaches the second floor area and runs into a dark blue poor-lit room that is in a 'S' shape. beyond the walls you can hear gorges dropping and building chambers. the marine then crouches trying to find a way passed without being noticed. he peers around the corner and sees a few gorges with 4 OC's in the process of building with a DC.
A fade is heard coming around on the gorge's side, so the marine quickly dashes for a dark corner to hide. the fade flies to the other side of the wall and glitch-swipes and hits him through the wall then comes to the other side blocking the marine from progressing in his ninjaness. But the fade lets him live and the marine starts dashing through the 'S' Cavern. Gorges start to plant OC's closer up to where the marine was blockaded. he runs past them and the other OC's are just finishing to be built but is not shot by their spikes.
He runs to a room with control panels in the center and three doors angled like 3 adjacent sides of an octagon in front of the controls. he starts to push the controls and and the doors open (like wing doors) and it's the ready room. one door for the marines(left), community(center), and aliens (right). He tries to run in the doors but is blocked by an invisible wall. so he just runs around pushing the buttons opening and closing the doors until the fade comes and blink-swipes him. My dream then wanders off something totally unrelated.
but yeah, i thought this was interesting because it was so visual and audio intense on a map I believe not to exist. It was just like how NS1's engine with physics and game play elements, just with better textures and higher poly's. I just found it weird because I haven't played NS1 in a bit and have been preoccupied with school and work, so it popped up out of the blue.
Oh yeah, on a weird note.
When my mind half awoke later, where i gain the knowledge that I'm awake, my mind was still audibly active and I heard someone shuffling through my room slowly getting closer to me, after about 5-10 seconds of listening to it I force my eyes open and search around finding no-one in sight and no more shuffling. that was kinda creepy.
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Side note: Did you know that people don't dream colors. Your dream is initially black and white, and when you awake your brain fills in colors based on what is acceptable to you.
I was actually a skulk. (like seriously, my mind was the mind of a skulk, I could look at myself, and I was a skulk. This wasn't game play son, this felt real) And I was in a living room, strange huh? Did not have that sci-fi atmosphere at all. Anywho, I was being chased by a few marines until I was low on health. I heard the marines starting to split up but one remained in the living room with me. I took cover behind a small cushion on the floor, tightning myself up to go unnoticed from the other side. Just as the marine gets close, I bite through the pillow towards his ankles and rip his ankles to shreds. I could then hear his radio going off with other marines on his line asking if everything was alright. I headed towards the direction he came in from, spotted the closest air duct, ripped off the vent cage and went inside to go unnoticed.
I have no idea if there's seriously a meaning behind this dream, but it's definately one to remember. I woke up that morning thinking there was going to be a new NS2 blog update but there was none :(
Side note: Did you know that people don't dream colors. Your dream is initially black and white, and when you awake your brain fills in colors based on what is acceptable to you.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
if that is true, then my mind did a hell of a good job. because it was awesome.
Side note: Did you know that people don't dream colors. Your dream is initially black and white, and when you awake your brain fills in colors based on what is acceptable to you.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A quick google of that leads me to believe its a bit of an urban myth
was thinkig the same thing.
Provide source or concede point.
e: You can't "see" dreams so that is the most retarded thing I've ever heard in my life. Why would you assume that color information is coded differently from monochrome?
Does that count?
I kept thinking
"F-ing awesome! please don't wake up, please don't wake up!"
Then I woke up :(
I kept thinking
"F-ing awesome! please don't wake up, please don't wake up!"
Then I woke up :(<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Happens more than id like to admit! :)
e: You can't "see" dreams so that is the most retarded thing I've ever heard in my life. Why would you assume that color information is coded differently from monochrome?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's basically what I meant. "Color is such a natural part of our visual experience, we sometimes overlook colors in our dreams." -http://www.dreammoods.com/reference/faq.htm#blacknwhite
That still doesn't make my statement right, and I apologize for that. But no one here can sincerely believe that the objects they dream up have a predetermined color beyond your brain's input... actually that in itself is a ridiculous suggestion since your brain makes up these objects/colors, which brings me back to my original point, your brain is inputting these colors into your dream... weather it's real-*dream*-time or only afterwords, I have no proof of that.
<a href="http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/article/color-dream" target="_blank">http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/article/color-dream</a>
^^
This guy's saying that most researches believe that we all dream in color, but "because the dream fades so quickly after we awake, our memories of the dream are often recalled in gray tones."
Well I'm saying the exact opposite. I believe we dream in black and white and our brain adds the colors afterward, and sometimes a person explaining his dream to another person may even say something like "I glanced up and saw the eagle soaring across the bright blue sky" but really didn't remember what color the sky was, he/she just assumed it was blue.
"When I was a kid, I heard someone talking about black & white vs color dreams. I felt bad because I recalled most of my dreams in b & w. That night I dreamt of thousands of iridescent lizards running along by my room."
It's stuff like this that makes me believe my theory. I think its likely that his subconscious mind, starving for colored dreams, added those rainbow colors in.
He goes on to say how you should try this exercise:
"During the day, notice at least once an hour the color of something, anything. My guess is that you will start recalling more color in your dreams."
This, again, would be attributed to the subconscious mind.
BUT
Because dreams are simply made up memories, and x colored light particles have not actually hit your iris while sleeping, this is pointless... we might as well ask a man who was born blind if he dreams colors... how would he know? Actually I guess if a blind man said he saw colors in his dream then I would be wrong.
edit: I gave up googling on that one after a few pages of the Blind Man's Colour music band.
Two dreams (in brief) I've had.
1: In an old metal work or someplace similar lots of shadows around me, all I see is green emerald shaped eyes looking back at me. I can reach into the shadows and cup my hands around the "eyes" and pull them out into the light, where they instantly disolve into nothing. - The weird thing is I've had this as a concurrent dream for several years. Started with me walking into the area and so far I've walked around a fair bit of it.
Never scared though, however the only "colour" as I said is the emeral shaped eyes, they are.. well... emerald coloured. :)
2: Another was when I was walking up a street, everything again was monochrome and I stopped at a set of pedestrian lights. The little man to indicate you can walk went from red to green (one of the two things that were coloured) where I promptly started to walk accross the road only to be cleaned up by a red car speeding through to try and beat the lights.
(<i>Side note: some 2-3 years later I had a near miss doing this exact thing, something inside me said "stop" so I did and a red car shot right past me, driving through a red light. If I had of walked, I'd not be here today.</i>)
There are others, but those are the two extremes for dreams that I have, rest are either monochromatic or full colour (at least in memory they are, cannot say for sure what they were at the time).
This will degenerate into a subjective argument that will no doubt lead to Hitler being mentioned (lol I just proved Godwin's law by citing it).
However if it can be shown that the same areas in the brain show activity when thinking of 'blue' as when blue light is incident upon the Cornea, that would be sufficient to show the existence of colored thoughts (at least for me).
The lady in the red dress? Are you sure it was red?
<!--quoteo(post=1727261:date=Sep 14 2009, 11:20 PM:name=Eddie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Eddie @ Sep 14 2009, 11:20 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1727261"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><a href="http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/article/color-dream" target="_blank">http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/article/color-dream</a><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I've never thought I would live to the day when someone would cite a self-help magazine as any sort of authority on anything. Now I have a story to tell to my grandkids!
I believe your point is as genuine as it'll get.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I've never thought I would live to the day when someone would cite a self-help magazine as any sort of authority on anything. Now I have a story to tell to my grandkids!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
"Richard Wilkerson is general editor for The Internet Dream E-zine, Electric Dreams, and director of DreamGate, the Internet Communications and Dream Education Center. He writes the Cyberphile column for the Association for the Study of Dreams Newsletter."
"Dream Sharing in Cyberspace " (1999) in Stanley Krippner and Mark Waldman's Dreamscaping. Los Angeles, CA: Lowell House/Roxbury Park
<a href="http://www.dreamgate.com/dreamscaping.htm" target="_blank">http://www.dreamgate.com/dreamscaping.htm</a>
Electric Dreams (1994 to present). A dream sharing e-zine
<a href="http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams" target="_blank">http://www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams</a>
ASD Cyberphile (1995-present) A quarterly column for the ASD Dream Time magazine
<a href="http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/cyberphile" target="_blank">http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/cyberphile</a>
Now I'm not saying I would use that source on any university paper, but for a simple friendly non-dream-related-forum topic discussion, I believe it was sufficient. But if your grandkids! ever feel uneasy about the whole thing, let me know and I'll put some time into it.
I've been doing some simple excercises lately such as every half hour or so i ask myself if what i see is real or not. If what i see cannot be real then i must be dreaming. I can testify personally that this works since it has happened to me.
I've had 2 succesfull installments of lucid dreaming since i started doing these excercises about half a year ago. One instance i was sitting in a taxi cab and when i looked to my left and back the driver was gone, so i knew something was wrong, pinched myself, (yes that actually works) realized i was dreaming, and safely transported myself to a safe location by simply thinking of it.
Once you start getting the hang of this a dream basically becomes your virtual playground. It is like an incredibly detailed Virtual Reality where anything you can think of can happen. It's awesome.
EDIT: Also i seem to be able to remember my lucid dreams VERY clearly as opposed to regular dreams which i forgot in about a day. I still know both lucid dreams i had with every detail.
Those all sound like self-made titles to me. Like, I'm CEO of Locallyunscene Inc. with a PHD in DREAMOLOGY from Locallyunscene University, Home of the Fightin' Gorges!!(patent pending)
THE CYBERPHILE COLUMN, LOOK OUT
I've been doing some simple excercises lately such as every half hour or so i ask myself if what i see is real or not. If what i see cannot be real then i must be dreaming. I can testify personally that this works since it has happened to me.
I've had 2 succesfull installments of lucid dreaming since i started doing these excercises about half a year ago. One instance i was sitting in a taxi cab and when i looked to my left and back the driver was gone, so i knew something was wrong, pinched myself, (yes that actually works) realized i was dreaming, and safely transported myself to a safe location by simply thinking of it.
Once you start getting the hang of this a dream basically becomes your virtual playground. It is like an incredibly detailed Virtual Reality where anything you can think of can happen. It's awesome.
EDIT: Also i seem to be able to remember my lucid dreams VERY clearly as opposed to regular dreams which i forgot in about a day. I still know both lucid dreams i had with every detail.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah that happened to me a few times. Once was because I was in a dream where I had a twin brother that didn't talk, which was odd enough to make me believe I was actually in a dream. And I had this other recurring dream that was honestly becoming annoying so whenever it "booted up" I remember thinking...'Ugh, not again.' I could actually wake myself up if needed.
SOURCE: none
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Those all sound like self-made titles to me. Like, I'm CEO of Locallyunscene Inc. with a PHD in DREAMOLOGYâ„¢ from Locallyunscene Universityâ„¢, Home of the Fightin' Gorges!!(patent pending)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
and that's why I said I wouldn't use those sources at university. They were satisfying enough for me, look into it if you wish.
I've had from time-to-time realised a dream was a dream and taken control of it, however hardly ever remember them. *shrug*
However my earlier mentioned repeat dream I keep having about the emerald eyes, whenever I have that I realise it's a dream now (only since the last time early last year) so now I'm actively exploring the dream finding out just why the hell I'm having this dream!
And the damned eyes were still disappearing when I pull them out of the shadows. :(
It's a matter of skill at believing you can fly and remembering it's a dream. This is one of things I've done from time to time.
It's weird to think that you are concious and actively thinking about your dream, yet sleeping.
Strange things dreams are.
Maybe because it was a lucid dream..
Dunno.
I was talking to him on that Brawr server a few months ago. He asked me if I could give him my hax because he wanted to be good like me so that people would like him.