A recent post in a different thread got me thinking about a dream that I had in college. It was a little weird, because in it, I was in a class with all of my friends/D&D buddies. When asked to turn in an assignment, I did, but none of my friends did, and I was asked to join the other diligent students behind the professor.
The professor then stated that he was tired of all the late assignments, and then pulled out a machine gun and gunned down the class (IN THE DREAM!)
Distraught, I spent the rest of the dream in the college bookstore looking for a scroll of raise dead that I had seen when I bought my books (or, so I thought in the dream) so that I could raise my friends. I was worried about how to pay for it, but that would be dependent on how much it cost. At the time, in the dream, it was completely rational.
So, I was wondering if anyone else has had RPG/D&D intrude upon their dreams in a similar or even a more dramatic manner. Ever play a fight back in your head? Ever look for your +3 calculator to help slay the accounting demon? Ever slow dance with Elminster on the Eiffel Tower? Ever party with drow at a biker karaoke bar?
Let's hear your stories!
(While I did originally want to mix in sci-fi/fantasy dreams, it might be a bit too broad a topic. I did, after all, have an entire episode of Buffy be created in my head one night.)
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I recall a long series of dreams back in college when I was a M:TG junkie where I had to tap mana cards to do EVERYTHING.
To take a shower, to turn on the faucet, to open my door, to unlock my bicycle, to unzip my backpack. It was IMPOSSIBLE to settle my mind enough to get a decent night's rest.
I credit these dreams with the inspiration to sell off all my rare and uncommon cards, which allowed me to recoup all the money I'd spent on MAGIC.
A few years back I was visiting my mother for a few days and came down with the flu. A pretty heavy case of it too.
I was laying on the couch drifting in and out of consciousness and having some weird hallucinations and dreams.
One of these dreams was of being in a forest with some friends when some skeletons (armed with rusty scimitars and shields no less!) surrounded us and began to attack. In the dream I said to one of my friends "I wish we had some bludgeoning weapons!"
Do you ever have that dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? Why am I the only one who has that dream?
That's harsh.