Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 3799

since it becomes a tedious circlejerk of something I can only describe as flight or sweep scenes? Also, it's way too long

Not sure where to start... most of the dream faded really quickly apart from a few vague things (mostly "snapshots") and it's been 6+ hours since so it only worsened.
Looked like fortifications for assieged people, maybe near-futuristic setting, I dreamt about someone who wasn't me. A trainee or something. After a chaotic attack by inhuman beings, he ended up indoors, don't remember how, belonging to the assaillants.
He didn't seem to have been noticed, or they forgot about him where they dump prisoners, I forgot too. Afterwards he's lead by a girl, sneaking through places, cramped factory-like/engine rooms, or corridors. I notice the assaillants aren't all just inhumans, there are different sorts, some of them more human-like than the others, the girl herself almost human but with some weird features. I assumed once awake they were mutants of some kind, or a close species.

The dream mostly consisted of this sneaking through, witnessing different devices, rooms and people. I don't remember the voices but the girl sometimes spoke, for example pointing out the use of a room they were crossing behind the back of someone working on some kind of machine, or heeding to hide oneself, but not much else info.
It's not much said like this, but I can't spend 3 pages detailing the smatterings of recollection I have, and I forgot most of it. At the time though, it had something fascinating. The dream prompted questions as it went, like who's the girl? Why is she helping him? What are they doing exactly, is she leading him out to escape, trying to keep him safe, is there a specific place they're going to? What is that whole place to begin with, and who are these people? What's their goal (in general, not just for attacking the compound at the beginning of my dream, although it looked like war with civils drafted and stuff)? What is that species, does it have a particular culture that explains these rooms and what they're for? Again, the dream itself wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but in a way it was telling a story that wasn't yet about anything in particular or hadn't developed, and it had me yearning for more. I wanted to understand what I was seeing, but more importantly to see that story unfold, I wanted to see what happened next.

The dream ended as they were in some kind of landfill site on a medium-sized platform midair (maybe there was a crane holding it or something, I don't even know if I dreamt how they got outside there to begin with), with girders and metal heaps at various places on the platform, the sky around and a large hole toward a side of the platform. There were also a bunch, maybe a dozen images of the girl at various stages of her life, mostly child and teenager, doing various things I didn't pay attention to, as if they were recollections of her past or something. At that point I guess it's because I was getting awake, the dream stopped going forward, with the two on a beam swinging across the platform, and looking at the images. I have no idea how it was supposed to move on, so even if I made up something it would have been artificial from me and would have served to make me unable to pretend I wasn't conscious and awaken. The clock rang after a bit of inactivity like that, beam still swinging, I stopped it and instinctively went back to bed.

The other dream was again in a similar interior, and again two people, two men young men this time, a "protagonist" again (a different one, garbed differently too, and armed) and the other one I dunno if he was one of the "mutants" similar to the girl, I only dreamt briefly so didn't pay attention. The corridor they went in had a bay window in lieu of one of its walls, and was obviously high in the air too, contrary to the first dream where there weren't windows or wide places. They got stuck at a door, then from another side door a "mutant" came in, and got hit then shot by the protagonist before they resumed observing the first door.
That one part had a distinct feeling that made me think it was like a game (think FP-action-rpg a la Bioshock, although the dream wasn't in first person view at all), and this was another route/run with a mai character created differrently (his outfit immediatly made me "feel" that it was another class of character, and sprung the game impression). On one hand it made the whole dream seem even weirder, because "I was squarely dreaming of a game playthrough? ._.", on the other it gave a sad tint to the first one, because it was a story in the making that I was getting passionate about and wanted to involve myself in (as a "reader", not as in "participate in"), and if it became just a game then the whole "story" feel took a hit, as if some kind of magic was lost.

Thinking back about it when your post made me rethink about the dream, I guess it's because I more or less know what to expect from a game now, with all the marketing around it, the hype people try to build, etc. there's not a sentiment of discovering something with "new" eyes anymore, like a kid opening his presents without knowing what's inside. The first dream and "watching" it unfold probably recalled the past where I'd dive oblivious into a story, just letting myself be mesmerised and not paying attention to the things around as long as it keeps going and making me follow it. Not that it can't happen anymore. But I don't play/read as much anymore, the games I play like LoL or WoT aren't exactly story games, nor the ones providing you with that blissful attitude, and I'd need to take time to read books hours on end and not just a few pages before bed everytime.

TL;DR: dream probably made me melancholic of things I miss with fiction and fantasy (no, just fantasy, not fantasy and elves and dwarves and stuff), second dream sort of broke that with a very down-to-earth/consumerist take on it and saddened the whole experience.