have you ever had sci-fi or fantasy dreams

[JD]

I've actually had couple of kind of fantasy/sci-fi dreams over the last year or two.
The first one was a sometime last year, and in it I was in a zombie apocalypse. Me and a blond woman about my age, who was not a real person I know outside of the dream, were in a high school gymnasium trying to convince a bigger group to let us join them. We just about had them convinced to let us join their group, when a herd of zombies broke into the gymnasium, and we all spent the rest of the dream running through the school trying to get away from the zombies.
The one I had last night was more of a fantasy kind of thing that was a lot more complicated.
As it started I was getting off work at a store, when I realize I had forgotten to pay for some gum I had in my hand. As I went through the store to go check out I started seeing people, mostly kids, dressed in medieval style clothes. I just blew it off assuming there was some kind of cosplay thing or a costume party of some kind at the nearby school.
The next thing I remember is standing outside of one of those big white tents people use for events outside, with a sign on it that Ameritville (I have no idea where this came from),and there were people going in and out who were dressed in the same kind of clothes as the people at the store. I snuck up and looked in, and as I watched a blond woman in a blue dressed dance past the entrance. I saw that her nose was flat and turned upwards, almost like pig's or a cartoon character who had run into a wall. I just blew it off assuming it was part of the cosplay, or LARPing or whatever was going on. I decided I didn't want to get caught snooping, so I turned to leave and saw that there were a whole bunch of the tents set up around me.
I snuck around the tents to the edge of last one, where I saw a huge group of people coming down a long grassy path. Most of them were on foot, but a few were riding grey horses, some of the women were riding sidesaddle with men leading their horses, but most of them were riding regularly. All of them were carrying long white poles with vines wrapped around them, with old fashioned flame lanterns hanging from them. As a young woman in a blue dress riding a horse normally close to me, I noticed that she had pointed ears, and then I saw the woman riding side saddle on the other side of path and the man leading her horse also did. All of them did. I realized at that moment that these weren't cosplayers or LARPers, they were either elves or fairies, and I had no idea where I was.
Then I woke up.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

Actually, yes. Only one time, and I don't remember all the details, but it was a dream of an alien invasion.

The feeling I remember most is dread. The news on TV, and then going outside to look in the sky, with jets flying overhead and the noises of the alien ships, and the overwhelming feeling of "Oh, shit. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit..." and wanting to hide.

I wish I could remember more detail, but it's just the feelings that stand out. I don't even know if I'd classify it as a nightmare. I didn't wake up scared. I just remember waking up and thinking "Oh, good. So that wasn't real." But it felt real.

 

[Greg Cox]

True story from my childhood: After watching the original DARK SHADOWS for the first time, I had a nightmare about vampires. I can't remember the details, but . . . bats, fangs, coffins, etc. (Thanks, Aunt Margaret.)

The very next morning, I stepped outside to bring in the milk from the porch--and there was a dead bat lying on the porch. Ohmigod, it must have smashed into the door while trying to get to me!

Some would say I've never been the same since . . . .

 

[publiusr]

Oh! Do stop pummeling me!

 

[theenglish]

I always used to dream about Star Trek. One of my earliest nightmares was being on the bridge in the episode that had Apollo and being scared of that hand. I remember realizing that TNG was actually really STAR TREK sometime during the second season when I was on the bridge of the 1701-D. I still dream about Trek sometimes, but only rarely.

I also remember Darth Vader being in my nightmares as a kid, one time being the villain while I was on the Phoenix from Battle of the Planets. My nightmares about Vader stopped the day I saw Return of the Jedi. I was 13.

These days if I have a sci fi or fantasy dream, it is usually a tangential part of the dream. I am living in the Zombie Apocalypse or the aftermath of an alien invasion trying to keep my family together.

More often my dreams just have weird geography. So cities or countries I have lived in become mashed together; or I dream of looking at maps while I am traveling that have fictional countries or islands inserted in them.

 

[publiusr]

More often my dreams just have weird geography. So cities or countries I have lived in become mashed together

Same here. One was a huge undereground park--a huge tree by the lake--one of many--but it was well lit somehow.

Long stretches of road with grassland to the right and old houses to the right of me. Lots of industrial/commercial locations where folks remember me--and I them..even though I've never seen them before.

I love my bookstore dreams--except things vanish as I wake up.

 

[Christopher]

I rarely remember my dreams, but as it happens, I had one just before waking up this morning that was set in some alternate world, I think some kind of fantasy parallel dimension. My point of view was in a diner or tavern of some sort (I may have been dreaming that I was watching this on TV, though I perceived it as though I was there), and -- I kid you not -- Lieutenant Columbo was there. He came into this otherworldly establishment as casually as if he were in his favorite chili joint, and he sat at the counter and started making conversation with the person next to him. And from my perspective as an observer, I was thinking that he would be out of his depth and unprepared for the situation, and I wasn't sure he even understood where he was yet. But his conversation revealed that he'd readily caught on to a number of important and perhaps incriminating things about the person he was talking to. Because he's Lieutenant Columbo, so of course he did. I woke up around then, though.