This is me ranting about dreams and video games.
I know I've been spamming my f-list a lot lately, but I wanted to record the creepy dream I had last night.
Anyway, in the dream, a man (and his girlfriend) were chasing me across the country. The man was young, somewhat handsome, had medium brown hair, and was wearing an green shirt that had a roaring cartoon T-rex on it. (The shirt was kind of adorable, actually. You would never guess that the guy who was wearing it would be crazy.) The dream alternated between him wanting to kidnap me just because he got a thrill from it and him wanting to kidnap me to use me as a sacrifice for some weird religious ritual.
This guy literally would not give up. At first I thought that staying inside my house and locking the doors would eventually make him lose interest, but he decided that he would just wait for me to come out, because eventually I'd have to buy food. Then I thought that maybe I could make him lose my trail if I ran far or fast enough. I escaped to another state, but he followed me. I asked one of guy friends to be my bodyguard, in hopes that this guy would give up if I had some sort of "buddy system" thing going on, but he tried to forcefully yank me away from my friend and into his vehicle. I tried staying in public places, hoping that it would deter my abductor if there were lots of witnesses, but he abducted me anyway, and everyone around me turned away when I was screaming for help. Yep, fun times, fun times.
The worst part was that I woke up two or three times in the middle of this dream, and every time I thought "well, I'm so glad that dream is over"... but nope, as soon as I fell asleep again, the dream resumed. I never have my dreams continue, even when I wish they would. (ie, the total of three pleasant dreams I've ever experienced.) Why did this dream continuation trend have to start NOW, of all times? The entire thing lasted from around midnight to 5 am. I finally woke up at 5:30 and decided "Screw this, I refuse to fall back asleep and keep dreaming about getting abducted. It's officially morning now, so I'm getting up."
The really pathetic thing? It took me 20 minutes before I quit jumping at shadows.
In other news, I'm having lots of fun playing Skyward Sword. Or, I should say that I was having lots of fun. At the moment I want to flip all the tables because I'm stuck on two side quests.
The first side quest is playing the harp at the Lumpy Pumpkin as part of the "oops, I broke the chandelier" repayment plan. I'm not sure what tempo I'm supposed to be playing at, but whatever I'm doing, apparently I'm doing it wrong. I keep getting boo'ed by the customers and I don't understand why. And the owner is like "You call THAT a performance? Unacceptable. You'll have to put more effort into it before I'll count it towards your debt repayment".
The other side quest I'm stuck on is the baby's rattle retrieval. Basically, a rattle is stuck on top of the tallest building in town, and Link has to return it to the kid. You're supposed to climb to the highest point in town and then dive off and land on the building... but EVERY TIME I JUMP, I MISS. Meaning I have to spend another 60 seconds climbing up to the tallest rock again, just so I can dive off of it and miss, again. This reminds me of when Zelda shoved Link off the tower at the beginning, and you had to land in that tiny circle... except this time, the game creators weren't nice enough to place you back at the spot you jumped off of if you miss. I didn't understand the skydiving controls then, and I don't now.
I don't even care when I get stuck on complicated puzzles or hard bosses because those are SUPPOSED to be difficult. But... playing a harp? Jumping off a platform? THESE SHOULD NOT BE THE HARDEST THINGS IN THE ENTIRE GAME. Seriously, I would rather re-fight ALL the bosses I've battled (including Ghirahim, who killed me the first time I fought him) than have to jump off that stupid cliff even ONE. MORE. TIME.
PS - Does anyone know what the rule is on having multiple Facebook accounts? There are some fan communities I want to join on Facebook, but I DO NOT want my current Facebook/real life name to be associated with them. Mostly because there are a few people who know me irl who I do not want finding out about my online usernames under any circumstances. Fandom is supposed to be a "safe space" to get away from those people.
Anyway, in the dream, a man (and his girlfriend) were chasing me across the country. The man was young, somewhat handsome, had medium brown hair, and was wearing an green shirt that had a roaring cartoon T-rex on it. (The shirt was kind of adorable, actually. You would never guess that the guy who was wearing it would be crazy.) The dream alternated between him wanting to kidnap me just because he got a thrill from it and him wanting to kidnap me to use me as a sacrifice for some weird religious ritual.
This guy literally would not give up. At first I thought that staying inside my house and locking the doors would eventually make him lose interest, but he decided that he would just wait for me to come out, because eventually I'd have to buy food. Then I thought that maybe I could make him lose my trail if I ran far or fast enough. I escaped to another state, but he followed me. I asked one of guy friends to be my bodyguard, in hopes that this guy would give up if I had some sort of "buddy system" thing going on, but he tried to forcefully yank me away from my friend and into his vehicle. I tried staying in public places, hoping that it would deter my abductor if there were lots of witnesses, but he abducted me anyway, and everyone around me turned away when I was screaming for help. Yep, fun times, fun times.
The worst part was that I woke up two or three times in the middle of this dream, and every time I thought "well, I'm so glad that dream is over"... but nope, as soon as I fell asleep again, the dream resumed. I never have my dreams continue, even when I wish they would. (ie, the total of three pleasant dreams I've ever experienced.) Why did this dream continuation trend have to start NOW, of all times? The entire thing lasted from around midnight to 5 am. I finally woke up at 5:30 and decided "Screw this, I refuse to fall back asleep and keep dreaming about getting abducted. It's officially morning now, so I'm getting up."
The really pathetic thing? It took me 20 minutes before I quit jumping at shadows.
In other news, I'm having lots of fun playing Skyward Sword. Or, I should say that I was having lots of fun. At the moment I want to flip all the tables because I'm stuck on two side quests.
The first side quest is playing the harp at the Lumpy Pumpkin as part of the "oops, I broke the chandelier" repayment plan. I'm not sure what tempo I'm supposed to be playing at, but whatever I'm doing, apparently I'm doing it wrong. I keep getting boo'ed by the customers and I don't understand why. And the owner is like "You call THAT a performance? Unacceptable. You'll have to put more effort into it before I'll count it towards your debt repayment".
The other side quest I'm stuck on is the baby's rattle retrieval. Basically, a rattle is stuck on top of the tallest building in town, and Link has to return it to the kid. You're supposed to climb to the highest point in town and then dive off and land on the building... but EVERY TIME I JUMP, I MISS. Meaning I have to spend another 60 seconds climbing up to the tallest rock again, just so I can dive off of it and miss, again. This reminds me of when Zelda shoved Link off the tower at the beginning, and you had to land in that tiny circle... except this time, the game creators weren't nice enough to place you back at the spot you jumped off of if you miss. I didn't understand the skydiving controls then, and I don't now.
I don't even care when I get stuck on complicated puzzles or hard bosses because those are SUPPOSED to be difficult. But... playing a harp? Jumping off a platform? THESE SHOULD NOT BE THE HARDEST THINGS IN THE ENTIRE GAME. Seriously, I would rather re-fight ALL the bosses I've battled (including Ghirahim, who killed me the first time I fought him) than have to jump off that stupid cliff even ONE. MORE. TIME.
PS - Does anyone know what the rule is on having multiple Facebook accounts? There are some fan communities I want to join on Facebook, but I DO NOT want my current Facebook/real life name to be associated with them. Mostly because there are a few people who know me irl who I do not want finding out about my online usernames under any circumstances. Fandom is supposed to be a "safe space" to get away from those people.