Thread: The chronicles of a sleeping Barns

This is one of the most 'epic' of my dreams.
For people who don't know, this dream contained an alien race called the 'Zerg'
They are from one of my favouite games.

It is pretty long, as it was very vivid:

Spoiler for Dream:

We were riding in a long camper-bus along a bumpy, dusty road with low lying shrubs on one side and dark trees on the other.. The outside of the bus was a dirty white colour, it looked very old and ragged. There were about 25 of us riding in total and we all had our own bunk-beds in the bus. Out the tinted windows we could see it was getting dark. Most people had rifles slung behind their seats. We had been travelling for a while, and there was some quiet jazzy music coming out the radio. Most of the other people were asleep. Some strange noises were coming from outside, cracking noises and the occasional dog-like yelp. Something started scraping against the side of the bus, and some of the people woke up and tried to see what it was. The scraping got a little louder, and then stopped, only to start again a few minutes later. Several people were now staring out the windows. It was very hard to see in the twilight, it had got considerably darker in the last few minutes. At one point I thought I could see a large shape running alongside the bus, but it was gone the next time I looked. I didn’t know if I had really seen something or if it was just my imagination. Suddenly the scraping came back much louder than before. Everyone looked over to that side and most of us got a quick glimpse of a brown tail flicking away. Now nearly everyone was awake and murmuring about the sounds.
“I’m going down to the front of the bus” I announced to everyone.
I shuffled down the bus, trying to avoid kicking any cases over. It was quite hard to stay upright on the bumpy road. I reached the front, there was a door which separated the rest of the bus from the driver in his front cabin. I opened the door and stepped inside to speak to the driver:
“Did you catch an eye of whatever that was?” I asked him.
“Hmmn?” the driver drawled, with a cigar in his mouth.
“Well, some of the guys are getting real nervous back there. Just thought I’d let you know.” I replied.
“Nervous eh? Well... This ain’t our country anyhow...” said the driver, very slowly.
I was confused; “Not our country? What do you mean? Whose country is it?” I asked hastily.
The driver sighed and took his cigar out to say one word: “Zerg.”

The second he said the word ‘Zerg’ the bus made a huge lurch to the right. A high pitched whistling sound came from the sky, and something brown crashed from the sky and impacted with the side of the bus, near the back. The force of the impact blew the door open and I could see down the whole length of the bus. All the cases and objects had been blown to the right. Everyone else strapped themselves in. I tried to get back down the bus, I got about 2 metres before another whistling impact knocked the bus the other way. I fell to the floor and rolled over onto my side. Many more whistling impacts hit the ground and the bus, the next minute went in a blur. Large gaping holes were gashed open on the sides of the bus. There was so much chaos that I decided I really needed to get off the bus. Luckily for me, another impact had gashed a hole in the side nearest to me, I crawled towards the hole and rolled out the bus, my fall cushioned by some mud.

I stood up and the sight took my breath away, all around me explosions were happening. There were lots of Zerg in the sky and on the ground. I saw several human vehicles, other buses and tanks, which were being bombarded. A group of people ran by me and shouted:
“We are all going to die on this goddamn plain!”
This made me angry, I was determined I would not die to the Zerg. I ran over to a white truck and got inside. I floored the accelerator and sped off across the plain. The ground was very bumpy, but the ride was entirely smooth. I had no idea why it was so smooth, may be the truck had amazing suspension or something. It didn’t really matter to me then. I crested a hill and saw strange giant lobsters were coming towards me. I climbed out the cab of the truck, and looked up, a silver spacecraft was hovering above me. I blinked and I had appeared inside. I saw two men in army gear, one male pilot with a white helmet and blue overalls, and one woman with a strange black suit who talked to me:
“What is it like out there?” I asked her. It was a completely illogical question as I had been outside only a few seconds ago.
“They are pushing hard, but we have a way to finish this.” She answered. “Look”
I walked with her to a window in the side of the ship. All the Zerg were a long way down on the plain below. Suddenly blue domes of light rose out of the ground around the centre of the plain. The domes were huge and glowed with a light hue.
“What on Earth is that?” I asked the woman.
“We are trapping them with EMPs. We must keep them here.” She answered.
“Why must you keep them here?” I asked.
“You’ll see” She said with a smile.
I watched through the window as the swarm of Zerg circled their blue prison. I saw a black shape dropping out the sky, it hit the centre of the plain, dead in the centre of the ring of blue orbs and the Zerg swarm.
‘They were nuking them! They kept them on the plain so that the nuke would wipe them out!’ I thought to myself.

The ship we were in flew back over the way the bus had came. I kept on going, to places I did not remember passing. It eventually stopped at a towering city. It was absolutely beautiful, there were tower blocks so high they went into the clouds. Lots of metal walkways branched between the buildings. The whole city had an organic feel to it, the architecture of the metal structures was pretty incredible, with twisting beams and lots of hemispheres. The ship landed on one of the larger walkways. I talked to the woman again:
“Why are we here?” I asked
“Our work is not done.” She said
“What’s here? Zerg?” I questioned her further
“You’ll see.” She answered with an enigmatic smile, exactly the same as she had used earlier. It was quite infuriating.
We walked out of the ship and strolled along the walkways. The two army men and the pilot were with us. I tried to ask the army men questions but the woman kept answering for them:
“So who are you guys?” I tried to ask the left man
“We are elite” said the woman instead.
“What do you do?” I tried to ask the right man
“We do this.” said the woman again.
No matter how hard I tired I could not get a word out of the two army men, the woman seemed to be the only one of the crew that talked, apart from the pilot who made occasional radio calls to air traffic control (I didn’t know why).
We had gotten quite far, and we had reached the foot of another huge tower block. It became obvious at once that there were Zerg here too. Many of the windows were smoking and the sides of the building were charred. We managed to see a couple of flying Zerg go round a corner. The woman spoke to the two army men:
“The others will be here soon.” She said to them.
A loud whooshing sound came from the sky. I looked up and saw a small one-man ship flying towards the tower. The pilot yelled “Here we go!” so loud we heard it from the ground. He hurtled towards the tower and started firing at something.
“Well that’s them occupied” the woman said
“So what do we do? Are there Zerg here? You aren’t going nuke this place are you?” I pestered the lady.
“Look that way.” She pointed up a ramp.
I looked where she was pointing and saw some huge moving plants. Some of them were flowers and others looked like venus-flytraps. I stared at them for a while and then woke up.

This dream was pretty sci-fi:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was on a moon which had lots of huge craters and mountain ranges, all composed of grey moon dust. There was a large colony on the moon, all the buildings were made of metal and hugged the ground. Everything had to be completely air tight obviously. There were lots of lunar vehicles moving outside and quite a few spaceships in the sky. I figured it must be pretty far in the future for everything to be this developed. I walked along a corridor and heard someone calling a name. I knew it was mine, and so I walked into a room with a long oak table with several people, all in military uniform, sitting round the table. One of them spoke to me:
“Commander, we have sighted another lunar colony to the other side of the mountain.”
‘Wow’ I thought ‘I am a commander’
He spoke again: “They have given us a few hours warning. They will be coming to flush us out.”
I blanched as I realised another colony was going to invade us.
“Then we must ready ourselves” I said.
Over the next few hours (probably only a few minutes in real sleep time) we oversaw the preparation procedures. All the big hangars were opened and the lunar buggies all came out. All the drilling machines had their drills removed and replaced them with guns. We had a few minutes left when a small man ran up to me saying:
“It’s a disaster! Our anti-aircraft system is switched off! “
“Then switch it back on! If we have no anti-aircraft defence then we will be blown right out of the water! Where is the switch?” I asked him
“It’s on the other side of the colony, we’ll never reach it in time!” He cried frantically
“Well I gonna have to try. Tell the others I’m going over there.” I said, whilst running towards an exit hatch.
I put on a spacesuit thing really fast. Once I opened the hatch I saw the building with the switch about 200 metres away. I ran for it, but the moon’s gravity made me go really slowly. I was about 3 quarters of the way there when I heard whining engine sounds, I looked up and saw the enemy ships blowing up our buildings. I was too late. I looked to my left and saw a man with a small ship, he was calling to me:
“Come with me, it is too late for this place.”
I ran into his ship with him and we escaped, I watched the dying colony through the back window.

I found the ending very sad, seeing all those people dying, and knowing there was nothing anyone could do about it.
I may try to re-enter this dream in a lucid, to see if I can change it and save all those lives.

This dream was actually very funny now that I look back on it
It contains possibly the stupidest pirate I have ever known:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was with a real life friend of mine, and we were taking part in an enormous ball game. We were trying to get our ball to the other side which was about a mile away. Between us and the other side were lots of lakes and obstacles, which made it quite slow going .There were hundreds of people playing the same game with us, all trying to get our ball to the other side. We ran across a waterpark thing and went down one of the slides. It was pretty fun, but we had our minds on the game. We came to a maze of ropes and had to clamber through very slowly. Once we reached the other side my friend dropped the ball. It rolled down a hill, I yelled to him: “Get that ball for gods sake!”
We dashed down the hill and saw the ball float off across a small lake. “Swim after it!” I yelled. We began to swim across the lake and we reached an island. We could see our ball inside a cage made of bones. There was a pirate sitting on the cage. I asked him if we could have our ball back and he said:
“Bring me something valuable and we might have a trade.”
My friend and I looked around to try to find something to trade. We were in a strange cove which was full of pirates and fishing boats. There were sharks in the water but for some reason we weren’t scared of them. I saw a treasure chest on the sand and I swam over to it saying:
“We can give him the treasure, that must be valuable”
But my friend disagreed: “No, we should give him that old boot, all pirates love old boots”
I was thinking ‘WTF is he thinking, why would a pirate prefer an old boot to some treasure?!’
We reached the pirate and to my surprise he loved the boot. He gave us back our ball saying:
“Heh heh heh , this is the best trade I have ever had. Have your ball.”
Now that we had our ball we had to make up for lost time. We swam back and scrambled back up the hill. We reached the summit and saw that we had about half a mile of fields in front of us.
“Here we go” I said, ending the dream.

Stupid, stupid pirate LOL

This dream was pretty cool, although it was very short due to a real life telephone call:

Spoiler for Dream:

In this dream I was playing a Virtual Reality game with some other people I didn’t know. The VR was so realistic that it looked real. We were split into two teams and we each had our own castle and a catapult. My team consisted of a knight on a horse, a dwarf with an axe, a swordsman, a small giant, an archer and some guy with grenades. We were trying to kill their knight and they were trying to kill ours. We kept on firing our catapult and their walls, and they fired at us. The catapults were very inaccurate and only hit about once every six tries. Every now and again we would all run out and make a rush at their castle, and then rush back when their archers got too strong. We had played two games, and the score was 1:1, but suddenly the phone rang (real life) and I was woken up.

It probably would have been much better if it weren't for that telephone.
I think I'll try to re-enter this one too.

Brilliant recall this morning, 5 dreams!

This one was a very 'nice' dream. The DCs were real fun to be around:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was in a hospital ward with some other people. We knew each other well so we much have all had long term conditions or something, however we were all able to move around fine, so long as we stayed in our beds. I spent about half an hour (probably about that much real sleep time too) talking with the people and joking around. But then it got late (in the dream) and so we all went to sleep. Of course, sleeping in a dream wakes you up.

I may consider trying to contact one of them if I am in need of a friend in a lucid.

This dream was just brilliantly funny.
We nearly killed because of a chef's stupid mistake.

Spoiler for Dream:

I was in the back alley behind some restaurants with about 3 other people. We were walking past when a plate flew out of a window and shattered on the floor. It was followed by a few more. We were all saying stuff like “WTF was that about?” but then a carving knife flew out the window and sunk into the wall.
“OMG these guys are serious!”
We took shelter behind some old sofas and found lots of bricks lying around.
“Let’s throw these back at ‘em!”
We started hurling bricks through the window, but the plates kept on coming. A door to the side opened and a man with a pole came out and cried:
“We will win the restaurant war!”
My friends were saying “WTF?! Restaurant war?! We don’t own a restaurant!”
The man looked surprised, and started apologising: “Oh, sorry, I thought you guys were from that pizza place. We really hate them. If you want to come to our restaurant any time we will give you a free meal.”
“Okay” We said, and then I woke up.

Another medical dream. I am getting these too often...

Spoiler for Dream:

I was walking along a seaside boardwalk with someone I know. We were going along fine until he turned to me and said:
“Oh, BTW, I’m gonna go get a brainscan, the hospital said I had to.”
“What?! Why do you need a brain scan?”
“I told you, the hospital said I had to.”
“What hospital?”
“The one I go to. Oh yeah, and you’ve got to get one to.”
“Me? Why? I don’t need a brain scan.”
“I know you don’t need one, but my ticket is only valid if two people go for a scan, so I need you to come.”
“All right then.”
We went into a small shack and he handed over the ticket. There was a doctor there and he put us both into MRI machines. It felt like it took seconds, we both came out the machines, but before we went the doctor wrapped blue tape round our heads.
“What’s that tape for?” I asked my friend
“I don’t know, I think that guy just likes it.”
We continued to walk down the boardwalk and the dream faded away.

I hope it doesn't mean anything...

An alien dream. Very confusing indeed:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was with a woman who I seemed to know. We were walking down a wide cobbled alleyway in a city. There were quite a few people around. I asked the woman some questions:
“Where exactly are we going?”
“To meet someone.”
“Do you know them? Are they friendly?”
“Yes I know them, and no, they’re a bastard”
(I don’t swear nearly as badly in real life, so this surprised me a bit.)
“Who are they? Where are they from?”
“You’ll find out who they are, and they aren’t from this planet.”
“What? They’re an alien?”
“You could say that.”
We reached a dark restaurant and went to a table with someone already sitting down. We joined the person and ordered drinks. No one said anything, so I talked to the person:
“You look pretty human to me”
“Looks can be deceiving.” Said the woman
“I don’t believe you aren’t human, prove it to me.” I said to the person
“Look here, just accept that I’m not from around here and you will be fine.” Answered the man in a deep voice.
The woman piped up: “Your home world have said nothing. We are slipping away from you, there are deals still unfinished. What are you going to do?”
The alien talked back with its still remarkably deep voice: “We will nothing.”
The woman was getting rather heated: “Nothing?! Doing nothing achieves nothing. It is simple maths.”
“Oh really?” the alien replied “So what will you people be doing?”
“Whatever we think is best.” the woman said.
I was struggling to understand what they were talking about. Eventually I just gave up and let them argue, whilst I continued drinking.

Hmmn. I wonder if it was the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, it could have been.

This one was a lucid. I had god-level of dream control.
Constructing a universe can be fun:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was in a forest, and I came to a wall. I suddenly realised that I was in a dream and became lucid.
“Let’s do something big” I thought to myself.
I touched the wall and brought a hologram of the stars and planets. I touched one of the planets with my hand and stopped it spinning. I bowled it towards another one. Suddenly my view switched to outer space and I could see a large gas giant bearing down on a smaller rocky planet. I reached out and pushed the entire rocky planet out of the way. The gas giant continued going and flew out into the cold void of space, away from its star.
“At least no one lives on there.”
I saw a ground of moons and juggled them for a bit. But then I saw another collision. I teleported onto one of the colliding planets and sent a beam of energy into the sky. The beam hit the other planet and slowed it down. I made the beam stronger and managed to push it away.
“Whew, that was close.”
I zoomed my view out again and blanched, my work had disrupted gravity fields and now 5 planets were going to crash. I couldn’t physically stop them all by force.
I yelled “Stop planets!” and they all stopped. “Wow, that worked nicely. I’ve avoided disaster!”
I didn’t know what to do with my universe, but then a random thought came into my head:
“I’ll make a river in space! That will be both fun and freaky.”
I used my hands to control the flow of a river from a planet, I made it grow until the river was planet sized, and then I weaved it in and out, until it all looked very nice. I was satisfied, and that made my dream fade away.

Another great night of recall, 5 dreams again.

This dream was very simple, and yet it went on for a long time:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was having a big reunion lunch with a whole load of relatives and people I haven’t seen in a while. All the people were just like their real life counterparts. It was nice to see everyone again, until I woke up and found out it was all a dream...

I know that this dream must be a sign of how much I want to see people again..Hmmn...

This dream was very disturbing now that I think back on it.
I am a sci-fi fan, and my subconciousness seems to be one too, I have wierd concepts like this often.

Possibly the future of the human race:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was with a few other people in a white-walled workshop. There was a lot of high-tech machinery along the walls. The workshop was pretty big, and it had several operating table on it too.
A man walked up to me and said:
“Take this, it will make things easier”
He then injected me with some strange blue liquid. I felt very strange and my skin went numb.
“Your first upgrade will be a leg implant” the man said.
He picked up a scalpel and made an incision in my leg. I could feel it going in but felt no pain because of the blue liquid. I seemed perfectly willing for him to be doing what he was doing. I looked away as it was getting too gory. Out of the corner of my eye I could see the same thing happening to other people on operating tables. The man went over to a cupboard and brought out a strange hydraulic device.
“Your new leg” He said.
He fitted the device inside my thigh, he must have removed the bone already or something. It fitted perfectly. He then proceeded to stitch up the incision with an auto-stitching device, a bit like a handheld sewing machine. The metal device was under my skin instead of my bone. The man then did the same thing to my other leg. And then put things into my arms, my chest and my head. Once he was done I stood up. I was amazingly strong and fast with the new attachments.
The man said something as I was walking away:
“You have been upgraded, you are now more than human.”
One of the other upgraded people walked up to me and said:
“Or less then human”
The dream ended on that phrase.

The final conversation was really quite deep now that I think about it.
Whether or not a pure human was better than someone part robot...

One of my favourite dream scenarios, playing sports with supernatural powers:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was taking part in a very large scale game of sport. It was a very strange game, it was like a mixture of lots of different sports. The main aim was to get as many balls to the other teams goal as possible.
I can remember the rules pretty well:

1. At the start of the game 10 bowlers will bowl 10 balls to 10 batsmen with cricket or baseball bats.
2. If the batsmen manage to get past the final stump they can go on to the next area.
3. In the next area the batsmen grab a soccer ball and try to get it past all the other players.
4. Once the batsmen get to the end of the soccer pitch they run through the goal (no net)
5. They then grab a rugby ball and run to the enemy final goal and touchdown.

However, I had additional problems. Someone had hexed me and so now my hands magically attracted any ball within 5ft. This was great when I was batting and great when I was running. However, on the soccer pitch I fouled about 10 times because I was hand-balling. I had to try really hard to stop the balls flying into my hand.
After some time a whistle went and we went off to a half-time break.
I told some of my teammates about the hex and they got really angry. They decided they were going to cheat too. They hexed me again with a speed-hex. I could run really fast.

The second half began, and I was past the last stump and onto the soccer field in seconds. I was going so fast that the ball couldn’t catch up with me and it flew about a metre behind me. I reached the goal entrance and reached the rugby pitch. I then grabbed the ball and zoomed off towards the final goal. I reached the end extremely fast and dunked the ball, winning the game and ending the dream.

That was really fun and the game design was pretty interesting too.

This is what the lizards look like:


LEFT: Horny Devil | RIGHT: Coelurosauravus

I'm a lizard fan in general, and so this dream was perfect for me:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was walking down a street with some dream-friends. In the dream I had just been abroad or something, and I had been working with lizards. I had brought two lizards home with me and they were both in my rucksack. I showed the lizards to my friends and they were very impressed. They were really interesting lizards; a Horny Devil and a flying Coelurosauravus.

The problem was, the Coelurosauravus was making a lot of noise, and I would not be able to take it into the place we were going. I tried to think of what I could do, and I decided I would leave the Coelurosauravus in the car park and take the quieter Horny Devil with me. I found a fire bucket and put it on top of the Coelurosauravus in a shady corner of one of the stair wells. There was a ring on the floor and I padlocked the bucket hook down so that it was safe and secure.

We then left the car park and went to our destination, which turned out to be some kind of fair. I had the Horny Devil with me all the time. I woke up whilst we were at the fair, assumedly if I kept on dreaming I would have returned for the Coelurosauravus.

Another sci-fi dream with another wierd concept:

Spoiler for Dream:

I was in my house with a whole load of people and some members of my family. The house had been changed and looked more like a bunker than anything else. Metal reinforcement girders gridded the walls and the doors were made of thick metal. Out the window a huge black cloud was approaching. It was so big that it went all the way down to the ground.
“The smog is approaching” Someone said.
The cloud had a strange aura around it, it looked evil. It was obviously the cloud that everyone was worried about.
We all went down into the cellar which had been dug out and expanded massively. It looked like a cave with wooden shafts holding the roof up. There were lots of carcinogenic pods. Everyone went inside their own pod and I did the same. We all pressed a button on the side of our pods and they began to close. The last sound I heard before falling asleep was an old woman saying:
“And now we hibernate for ten thousand years, ready to wake in a smog-free world”
As soon as I fell asleep I woke up in real life.