Unofficial Tex Murphy

How ever DID you know Fred!

There's plenty more though.

The house is built in such a way that the bathroom door is facing the main bedroom's door on the second floor. If the bedroom door is opened, I see through the entire house all the way to the bedroom's window when I get out of the bathroom. If the lights are out in the hallway and bedroom, which is usually the case when I shower at night, the only thing I see is the window and what's outside. Ever since I've been here I've been terrified about the idea of opening the bathroom door and seeing someone float right outside my bedroom.

I have an above average sideway view. When looking straight ahead I see well over 180 degrees, and if I look sideways I can see a chunk behind my back. The mirror in the bathroom is on the same wall as the door, slightly to the right of the doorway. Whenever I leave the bathroom, even if looking straight ahead, I get a glimpse of the mirror, and what's left of my reflexion. Every now and then I get scared by the idea of seeing myself doing something I'm not actually doing.

There's more, but I think it's enough for one post.

Yes, it's pretty sad for a grown man. I haven't been afraid of anyone since grade school but I very much fear ghosts and goblins!

My powers are many and varied.

I'm the polar opposite of you Frank. I'm walking around HOPING to experience such freakery.

It never does, though.

-Fred

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm very much intrigued and seduced by the freakery and generally chase it.

I just deathly fear it as well.

It's a lot like my nightmares. They get terrifying sometimes but I always look forward to them.

I love a good nightmare.

-Fred

Fred Buer wrote:I love a good nightmare.

Yes, I like the adrenalin rush you get when you wake up from it thinking it was all real... All day long you look over your shoulder for signs of it, knowing it was a dream, but still somehow thinking it was real...

I feel disappointed. I've never had a nightmare, that I can remember. Maybe when I was a young child, I did, but I don't remember them now.

I have some "unsettling" dreams, but nothing horrific or something I'd classify as a nightmare. Sort of ... odd, I guess. Especially since I have dreamed in color, granted it's usually only a few colors, but still I have dreams that I remember, and quite well. But, no nightmares!

Now I feel left out!

~Keck

My dreams always seem to be in color, at least I remember them in color once I've awaken... I also swear that I've felt pain in my dreams as well... I've woken and have had my arm or foot or something hurting as well... It didn't last very long, most likely a mental thing, but I have felt pain in my dreams...

Interesting we are on the topic of dreams...

My dreams are always in colour too... and about 70% of my dreams are lucid dreams (dreams in which you know you are dreaming), in which case I am always in control and can pretty much do anything, for example; if I choose to fly, I will, or if I choose to drive a Lamborghini, one will appear in front of me. I don't know why most my my dreams have been like this but a in large percentage of my dreams I have been aware of the situation and able to take complete control (thus able to do what I ordinarily cannot do in real life).

I've also felt pain in my dreams, and in some cases I have dreamed about the future. I've also had dreams about scenarios that turned out to be actual event's happening at that exact moment. For example, I once dreamed I got out of bed and sat with my parents to watch a late TV show I'd never seen before, and when I spoke to my parents the next day they said it was impossible becuase they did not see me at all (despite the fact that I remember interacting with them)... but I could recite back to them everything they said and everything that happened in the TV shot. Keeping in mind that I would not hear them or the show from my room, nor had I ever seen the show before.

Yes, I've had many weird experiences with my dreams.

-Cub. =o)

I'm a lot like that Cub, my dreams end up coming true to a degree, sometimes right down to every detail, but for me unlike you, most of my dreams end up seeming real to me... Granted I can do pretty much anything, but at the same time when I wake up it's burned into my mind as a memory, not just a dream...
Those are the kind that I hate though, because a friend will have been in the dream and then you end up running into them or something and you start talking about it as if it happened last week and they haven't a clue what you're talking about...

Like one time I had a dream that my family and a friend of mine, his family, we all went camping... I took my trailer, he took his and we went to a campground a few hours away... After I woke up, it was like it happened a few weeks ago... Just so happened that we were getting together for a cookout that weekend and while we were sitting drinking a couple of beers I started talking about this camping trip that never happened... It made for good conversation, even though I had to fill everyone in on what the hell I was talking about... But we all had a good laugh over it...
Sadly it wasn't the first or the last time that it happened... And I'm sure it will happen again...

My mind usually places me in what I would call an alternate reality. I know it's an alternate reality, and I know I am an alternate version of me. It's kind of a surreal reality at that. Some times it's kind of post-apocalyptic, anarchic and dark. Other times, it's grey and boring. What it never is though, is happy or colorful. Always bleak and dystopic. And it's always my home town. Like through a hazy glass made of magical frozen cynicism.

That, and I also have a recurring dream of either needing to get on a ferry and not getting on, or getting off a ferry and not getting off. Usually because of some trivial detail like needing to pack my bag first, but I know the bag is unimportant and no matter how long I spend packing that stupid bag it never gets done. And as such, I'm always late and I am never where I should be.

I'm sure that's relevant to my life somehow.

-Fred

Fred Buer wrote:My mind usually places me in what I would call an alternate reality. I know it's an alternate reality, and I know I am an alternate version of me. It's kind of a surreal reality at that. Some times it's kind of post-apocalyptic, anarchic and dark. Other times, it's grey and boring. What it never is though, is happy or colorful. Always bleak and dystopic. And it's always my home town. Like through a hazy glass made of magical frozen cynicism.

Almost sounds like your dreams put you in Silent Hill quite often...

Fred Buer wrote: That, and I also have a recurring dream of either needing to get on a ferry and not getting on, or getting off a ferry and not getting off. Usually because of some trivial detail like needing to pack my bag first, but I know the bag is unimportant and no matter how long I spend packing that stupid bag it never gets done. And as such, I'm always late and I am never where I should be.

I'm sure that's relevant to my life somehow.

-Fred

Indeed it is... no matter how many times you post on the Tex Murphy message board, you never stop, or never seem to be done... then one day you realise you left your life behind. Yes, ask me how I know that. lol!

-Cub. =o)

That's pretty deep, Fred. Do you feel like there is some event in your life you'll always be unprepared for? Or, something that you're hesitant in doing, that could spur your life forward in the direction you really wish you'd take?

If so! GET A MOVE ON BUDDY! as long as you don't stop posting, of course Dreams are a really interesting topic to study. Makes me wish I knew more about them, but I find myself rather nubile in regards to them.

Heck! I didn't know that the type of dreaming I do mostly is called Lucid Dreaming, thanks Cub

~Keck

So do you guys ever sort of roleplay as others in your dreams? I think often I take on the roles of other people or one minute I will be in the role of 1 person/creature and switch seamlessly to another mid-dream. Or other times I'm myself.

I had this dream once where I would wake up in the morning, get out of bed, walk out my bedroom and accidentally fall down the stairs. And either the dream looped or something but it felt like I would wake up again and it would happen all over again Groundhog style. To the point where when I did actually wake up I was slightly nervous of falling down the stairs in case I was still asleep, lol!

Ever talked in your sleep? I don't think I normally do. But have done a couple times or so. I told someone to put the cat out once because I was dreaming about an area enclosed with a lego-style wall and I was trying to remove some blocks to let the cat out... lol I have a lot of weird dreams.

Oh yeah I remember (back when I had the time to play lots of games at once), I would get stuck in 1 game and then a couple of times I dreamt about solving 1 game using the mechanics of another. I'd wake up and think "Wait a minute, I can't do that in that game...".

Sai wrote:So do you guys ever sort of roleplay as others in your dreams? I think often I take on the roles of other people or one minute I will be in the role of 1 person/creature and switch seamlessly to another mid-dream. Or other times I'm myself.

I had this dream once where I would wake up in the morning, get out of bed, walk out my bedroom and accidentally fall down the stairs. And either the dream looped or something but it felt like I would wake up again and it would happen all over again Groundhog style. To the point where when I did actually wake up I was slightly nervous of falling down the stairs in case I was still asleep, lol!

Ever talked in your sleep? I don't think I normally do. But have done a couple times or so. I told someone to put the cat out once because I was dreaming about an area enclosed with a lego-style wall and I was trying to remove some blocks to let the cat out... lol I have a lot of weird dreams.

Oh yeah I remember (back when I had the time to play lots of games at once), I would get stuck in 1 game and then a couple of times I dreamt about solving 1 game using the mechanics of another. I'd wake up and think "Wait a minute, I can't do that in that game...".

Haha that's awesome Sai! Seems like this topic has also got you giddy!

Anyway, yes I've had roleplaying situations in my dreams. However, despite everyone thinking I am that person I realise very quickly that I am not and they have all mistaken me for someone else. This is often followed by a serious case of performance anxiety. For example, I dreamed I was Steven Spielberg (despite realising that I actually wasn't) and everyone was looking at me asking me what to do and I was like... crap!! But it's amazing that, despite knowing how inexperienced you may appear in a dream, you mind will always find a way to make your actions totally plausible and practical.

Can't say I've ever fallen down the stairs so many times though. But I have spoken in my sleep... I don't remember what people said I said. But once a friend of mine was snoring on the couch so I gave him a whack with the cushion, and he groaned and said "But the frog stole my wallet!"... I told him when he woke up and we had a good laugh about it.

I like you game solutions though Sai... very creative and ingenious!

-Cub. =o)