Had my first Alien dream last night xD

dk

True, it does vary from person to person. And yeah, only ever happens to me when I'm on my back. In the dreams though, such oddities like you mention either do not happen for me, OR my mind just goes 'ok that's normal'...though I'm usually too scared to notice :D

IRaptus

My Dad introduced me to ALIEN at 10, so kinda set the stage :D Mine are all in our world, like being alone in the house at night, all lights off...and the Alien is inside the house...and you KNOW it is. :)
Or, one dream was a shopping mall, at night, all lights off, and yeah, again...it's Around...

One dream, they were all erupting from manhole covers and it was a bright, perfect summer day down by the old Alberta Museum...THAT one scared me almost grey-haired. :D

dk

Alien on Gilligan's Island...well, the dreamscape does have it's OWN rules, I can see it.

M577

Yep, exactly...alone and I know it's prowling about, just waiting for some mistake to tell it where to find me, or hiding, and hoping it doesn't find me as I sense it pass by, that kind of stuff.

Yeah, 'Observational' type dreams, they can be unsettling, but they're never as terrifying as first-person dreams. That and yeah, you found his lab to be Interesting, so the mind I think pursues that angle instead of fear.

Paranormal dreams and hallucinigenic drugs...well, I can relate, as I was on this one medication once...accidentally owing to a pharmacy screw up. Wasn't sinus meds in the bottle I got...anyways, yeah, it did to my mind what you describe. :)

IRaptus

Nope, you're good...we're all pretty happily screwed-up here :D

True story, my originals band has a song called I,Raptus lol......

It is a play on word. The song lyrics refers to roman/latin law meaning "I, Steal" but it is a subtle nod to I.Raptus (spp) aka the xenomorph...

BWW did you play Alien: Isolation a lot? Did it leave a lasting effect on your psyche? I wonder if that has anything to do with it? 

The scene you describe at the Alberta Museum on a bright sunny day sounds epic btw haha I'm trying to figure out how that'd be scary :D

This turned out to be one of those unexpected cool threads! Sorry M577 I already up voted.

Agreed dk! i will use my upvote powers!

IRaptus

Cool! I was pondering it as a play on 'iPhone' and 'Raptus' (Alien)...well, got it half right and I like your direction better!

M577

I've been dream-stalked by The Alien since I was about 11 years old, so that was going on LONG before ALIEN: Isolation. :)
Maybe the designers of that game have similar dreams??

Well, it's scary when your in a convertible (never been in a real one in my life) and there's a radio blurb about Emergency Alert Broadcast, stay tuned, then goes to static, and then as your driving, you see manhole covers start lifting up as you pass them...
It was a messed up dream...bright, perfect summer's day...and Aliens.
I didn't sleep for 2 days after that one :D

Tried upvoting, forgot I already did :)

Ahhhhh those manholes! I thought you meant similar to the hole leading into your attic, we call those manholes here in Australia.

So I was picturing xenos coming out of holes under the gutters from the museum roof and crawling down the walls. Thinking to myself that'd look visually amazing! I see where you're coming from now, they'd be everywhere as you're driving past, behind you even LOL. Awesome description with the radio too, I can rarely pull minute aspects like that out of my dreams, they're always extremely fleeting. As soon as I wake up pretty much everything except the main idea from the dream has faded by the time my feet hit the floor.

Have you tried equipping a pulse rifle and seeing what happens? My old man always told me if you're dreaming of aliens remember to dream you have a laser gun with you haha.

PS thanks for the upvotes guys :) I have no idea how they work though, is there an explanation for that kind of stuff in a rules section? There's also star with an 8 next to it on my profile, no clue what that means either.

M577

Yeah, that idea of yours about the museum WOULD look great!! Unfortunately, my dreamscape writes it's own scripts. :)

I taught myself how to remember dreams after i got so annoyed with losing ones I wanted to remember, it just takes time and remembering to remember first thing upon awakening...after a while, it becomes reflexive :)

Heh, good advice from your Father, but while I can lucid dream a bit, now and then...in those ALIEN dreams, too scared to think really :)

Here's how it all works

For upvotes-

There is a thumbs up icon right above your avatar. Members click on it if they like the thread and you do the same if you like theirs. 4 people up voted this single thread that added to your other 4 giving you your total 8 up votes.

For the other stuff like XP, BWW posted that and I have never checked out how that stuff works.

Ever since I started being an active follower of Alien Covenant, Xenomorphs have occurred in every dream I have had since, some obviously xenomorphs others have aspects of the xenomorphs, all in all pretty cool especially when you have a best friend xenomorph named James.

Awesome, thanks guys!

BWW I absolutely suck at lucid dreaming, I wish I could activate it but my dreams are so realistic that I just assume I'm awake and go along with it, I'm sure you know EXACTLY what I mean.

There's also a herb you can employ to help induce lucid dreams, it's called 'Calea Zacatechichi' and is a really fun word to say.
I've used it several times and have had REALLY vivid dreams, but haven't become lucid yet. It's perfectly legal however it's just extremely bitter. Absolutely disgusting to drink so I couldn't keep working with it lol

NO NO NO....

I am not standing for Aliens vs Starship Troopers lol

Joke... interesting dream, and we have to remember John Spaights idea was not the Black or Sacrificial Goo, but Tiny Nano Scarabs... that had the same effect and if people study Spaights Scarabs then the Black Goo makes perfect Sense.

so why not having giant Alien DNA Cockroach/Scarabs, if you wanted to continue the dream, then introducing Spaights draft idea would have been good... that the Cockroach/Scarab infects the Host with a Mutagen Virus, that either gives us a Fifield but more Alien DNA (like Spaights draft) or even similar to how the Neomorphs are born in Alien Covenant.

I would write down everything you remember, and try and think of the dream again over and over and maybe you can get more ideas and then make yourself a Short Fan Novel from it ;)

When i sleep... and i mean when lol

I do get Sleep Paralysis quite a bit,  1-3 times month, but i also get like a Groundhog day version 3-5 times a month lol

That's a great idea. I don't think seeing the roaches had anything to do with Spaights draft but I'm aware he was using scarabs. I liked the idea quite a bit actually.
One of my hobbies is growing chilli and cactus and as you can imagine I come across spiders and insects a lot. I'm also a huge arachnophobic so I think this is why they showed up at the last minute and why they forced me to wake up, the bugs wigged me out more than the aliens lol.

I kept a dream journal in my previous phone but have been pretty lazy lately, I'll try to think of what else happened but I suck at story-telling, and the dream I had was definitely more along the lines of Aliens as opposed to Alien, for better or for worse.

..or even Starship Troopers hehe

a few months back I had a dream that I was part of the colonial marines and we were fighting off the Xenos and some how came up with a way to exterminate them. Bleach and weed killer. I remember everyone ecstatic because we were going to survive and then I woke up.....not understanding the bleach and weed killer part and how in the world that got in there. 

M577

Yeppers, I know exactly what you mean! The rare times I remember in the dreamscape to remember the concept of lucid dreaming are very few and far between, even rarer that when I try it I don't wake myself up...I need some more practice it seems :D

That herb sounds like it might be worth a try, TY for mentioning it!

BigDave

I ALWAYS have a notepad on my night table, and it gets a lot of use...not everything I note down makes sense when I'm fully awake though...
Sorry about the frquent bouts of sleep paralysis, I hope you at least get some decently entertaining/interesting dreams of such episodes?

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Shasta cyclone you probably got the idea for bleach and weed killer from the fact that bleach breaks down organic compounds and weed killer probably because xenomorphs are view as a plague that spreads quickly similar to weeds