A New Space Empires Game Idea - Page 3

narf poit chez BOOM · #21 January 7th, 2004, 04:37 AM

well, just try keeping it somewhere in your mind.

Atrocities · #22 January 7th, 2004, 07:56 AM

I realize and can control about a fourth of the dreams I have. I often, upon realizing it is a dream, start to laugh at the power I possess. The people in the dream look at me like I am insane and that makes me laugh even more. I took one former boss and propelled that jackedassed weasel MF through a wall and that was so utterly and completely satisfying that I did not want to wake up. I wanted to continue beating him to death.... Oh wait, its a dream.... CRAP! Now I am awake!

Dreams are a lot of fun, source of a lot of pain, and seldom remembered. Nightmares, well they are far worse than one can imagine, and seldom do I realize they are what they are until after the catastrophie has occured.

Puke · #23 January 7th, 2004, 08:10 AM

my dreams aren't too much fun. I realize they're dreams, but what happens in a dream is usually what you expect to happen. not what you want to happen, what you expect to happen.

and thats almost always bloody murder.

On a happier note, and back to topic:

I did have a cool dream about space empires a few years ago. I think it was after someone posted a shipset or a 3d image rendered from their shipset. This fleet of blue and grey angular ships and fighters were bombarding this bright blue planet with cannons and beam weapons, and I had a moveable perspective of the whole thing. I seem to remember drop ships moving in to land troops, and these massive ships lumbering passed me and fireing brilliant purple beams into the atmosphere. there was no sound at all, either because im well aware that there is no sound in vaccuum, and it really irritates me that sci-fi shows feed you engine noises and cannon sound FX, or because i usually play with the sound off. Or maybe i just wasnt dreaming with that night.

Kamog · #24 January 7th, 2004, 09:09 AM

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Then the alarm went off, and I didn't finish my dream. Sometimes I'd like to shoot the guy who came up with the idea of clocks designed to wake us up too dang early.

Yeah, I agree. It seems that often when I'm having an interesting dream, the alarm clock wakes me up. If you think about it, getting up every morning by the sound of the alarm clock is not very natural. It's so artificial -- the natural thing would be to sleep until you wake up by yourself each morning. Particularly in the winter when it's always dark when the alarm goes off, I find it difficult to get out of bed: my mind tells me that it's still night time because the sun hasn't come up.

Puke · #25 January 7th, 2004, 09:35 AM

clock or no, you tend to get up when you train yourself to. just be glad that you dont have to get up before dawn every day to work on the farm.

or hit the graveyard shift at the factory, for that matter.

Atrocities · #26 January 7th, 2004, 09:58 AM

12 plus years on Grave Yard and now I can sleep when I want, get up when I want, and you know what, I still hate the day light.

Winter time seems so dark, so blue, so depressing. Especially now that we are buried under a winter storm the likes of which we have not seen in nearly eight years.

But if I had a game simular to the game I started this thread for, then I might have a shining light at the end of the tunnel.

NEWS FLASH:

Do to fiscal cut backs, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off indefently.

Just my luck.

narf poit chez BOOM · #27 January 7th, 2004, 10:42 AM

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Nightmares, well they are far worse than one can imagine, and seldom do I realize they are what they are until after the catastrophie has occured.

well, in dreams you can time travel. most of my dreams, well, close to all, don't actually have anyone dying, which, i suppose, means i have a peacefull subconcious. but that dream i mentioned? the terminater killed a kid. even asleep, i was shocked. so, i turned time back, put it in a hallway and dissolved it to atoms using a spell. at this point, i was semi-consious in my dream. i probably would have found it very satisfying if emotions figured more into my dreams, but their faint. i get color, sound(some), a few times dull, unspecific pain and faint emotions.

it was weird, even before i woke up. like i said, mostly my dreams are just weird. occasionally scary, but if they are, i'm the one in danger. anyone else turned into a ninja and gone slice&dice on the monsters?

( < insert happier note there)

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gregebowman · #28 January 8th, 2004, 11:14 PM

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Originally posted by Kamog:

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Then the alarm went off, and I didn't finish my dream. Sometimes I'd like to shoot the guy who came up with the idea of clocks designed to wake us up too dang early.

Yeah, I agree. It seems that often when I'm having an interesting dream, the alarm clock wakes me up. If you think about it, getting up every morning by the sound of the alarm clock is not very natural. It's so artificial -- the natural thing would be to sleep until you wake up by yourself each morning. Particularly in the winter when it's always dark when the alarm goes off, I find it difficult to get out of bed: my mind tells me that it's still night time because the sun hasn't come up.

Tell me about it. I have to get up at 4:30am, so I can do the 3 s's (sh$t, shower & shave) so I can take my wife to work by 5:50 or so. Then on Saturday, I have to get up at 5:30 to get to my part-time job by 7:00. And Sunday, the only day I'm not working (right now, although that may have to change in the future), my 3 year old boy will wake us up by 7:30 at the latest. So I don't get much sleep, let alone time to dream. That's why I hate it when I get interrupted in a really good dream.

dogscoff · #29 January 9th, 2004, 01:55 PM

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I realize they're dreams, but what happens in a dream is usually what you expect to happen. not what you want to happen, what you expect to happen.

yes, I find that. What you expect to happen is what happens, hence that horribly feeling of inevitability in nightmares.

However once you realise you are in a dream you can control it. You just have to decide what's going to happen next and then let it happen. The trick is to realise that you're dreaming without waking up- letting just enough conscious slip in there, but not too much. And once you have control of your dreams... well, hehe... anything's possible. *lewd grin*

And about being woken up prematurely... yeah, I hate that, but I read somewhere that you only ever remember dreams if you are woken up in the middle of one. If allowed to wake naturally, you won't remember any dreams from that sleep.

Also, why is it that every morning I get up at 7:30 and spend half an hour hating work and hating everything because I'm not allowed to just stay in my bed, but on the weekends when I can stay in bed I either wake up early anyway (aaagh!) or wake up unnappreciative of the lie-in? I'm going to start setting my alarm for 7:30 on Sundays, just so I can get the satisfaction of switching it off, rolling over and going back to sleep.

Finally I hate all these "dream interpretation" books. They say things like "if you dream of a dog, then you are feeling safe." Well, if you like dogs, then maybe. But if you hate and fear dogs then a dream about dogs won't signify security at all. I do that believe dreams sometimes tell you things about your life as it is now, but the language of dreams is as individual as human beings.

President_Elect_Shang · #30 January 9th, 2004, 04:53 PM

You know I hardly ever have a dream that I remember anyway, I would say only about once every six months or so, well that was the case until recently. But I do remember as a teen I could control my dreams, and when I would find myself in a nightmare I would usual concentrate and turn the table on the perceived threat; except this one reoccurring dream involving an on-coming car. I could never control that one.