Fortunately, The Charmander Presumably Had High Heat Tolerance.
Another roundup of dreams! I feel these have been getting more frequent; have I been remembering my dreams more often lately? The first of these is mildly sexual; the rest are clean.
Vivid mental image of Joe Goldberg of YOU on his knees, upright, those wide dark eyes very striking somehow; was he looking at the camera? A guy has just suggested he get on his knees - not unkindly, not coercively. If it were anyone but Joe, I'd say he freely acquiesced, but obviously Joe always has a lot of considerations going on beyond 'is this what I want in this moment?', e.g. 'will this get me closer to the woman I find interesting?' or 'will this help me get away with my various murders?'
Everyone's clothed at this point. But Joe is about to blow this guy, and you can see in his eyes that he knows this and he hasn't entirely processed how he feels about it yet.
Dreamt I was at my aunt and uncle's West Sussex home for a big extended gathering, but a stag and a lion got into the house somehow, and we all had to quickly shut ourselves behind an interior door. Nobody was badly hurt, but the lion slightly grazed my knuckles with its teeth when I was urgently pulling the door shut. The door was glass, so we could get a good look at the animals and know when they'd left through the open back door and it was safe to emerge. Curiously, the lion and the stag showed absolutely no interest in each other; they only cared about us!
Dreamt that I was put in front of a class of young students - preteens, early teens? - with the expectation that I would put on some sort of play for them. I ended up improvising a performance (speaking to the pupils and playing off their reactions) in which I was a slightly older Light Yagami in the role of their teacher, complete with belting out 'Where Is the Justice?' from the Death Note musical, which seems ill-advised.
Dreamt I was caught in a time loop in some sort of big, complicated building; maybe a university? I was there with a friend called Catherine - not an actual person, although she did look a little like a Katherine I know. I was trying to prevent either of us from getting shot in the head, which caused the loop to reset whenever it happened, but I was unable to persuade Catherine to leave the building, so I was trying to find another way to prevent our deaths. I did not attempt to use the 'hey, I know for a fact someone with a gun is going to turn up and try to shoot you' argument to convince Catherine to leave; perhaps I should have given it a shot, so to speak.
Dreamt you could ask your Final Fantasy VII Remake series party members questions aloud while you played, and, if a response was programmed in, they would answer. I was asking them all for their thoughts on other party members, e.g. 'What do you think about Aerith?'
If you asked Sephiroth 'What do you think about Zack?', during a flashback in which Sephiroth was in the party, he would ramble on for absolutely ages.
This is at least the third dream I've had in which it's possible to talk to the characters aloud while playing videogames.
Dreamt of a dark-haired teenage boy who wanted to go to Waterloo Road to study the piano, but he wasn't quite skilled enough to get in. In the end, he wrote a slightly heartbreaking letter to his two best friends, who had got into Waterloo Road, about how he couldn't join them and he'd miss them while they were at a different school, but he just had to accept that he was on a level of ability below them and would inevitably be left behind. I got very invested, but, on waking up, the idea that Waterloo Road has high standards is hilarious.
Dreamt my housemates and I saved the world at some sort of comedy event - fought some sort of evil? - and we found at the next iteration of the event that seats had been reserved to thank us. I should hope so.
Dreamt that Lee Mack had written multiple himself/himself fics.
Dreamt that Kris of Deltarune became possessed and tried to kill me, which, to be honest, is a fairly standard thing to happen for Kris.
Dreamt that my housemates, my brothers and I were standing near an outdoor swimming pool in which Pokémon, it appeared, liked to swim sometimes; every so often a Pokémon would show up and jump in to swim around a bit. At one point a Bulbasaur came running to the pool, and then ran up to me instead and leapt into my arms. I got to cuddle a Bulbasaur in my dream. Incredibly important news.
A Charmander also jumped into Rei's arms, and Rei was able to hold it briefly! But they accidentally spilled their coffee on the Charmander, so it hopped back down and jumped into the pool to wash it off. We were all briefly alarmed, because surely the Charmander would die? But it seemed fine, even though its tail was immersed; somehow the flame kept burning underwater!
What proportion of my dreams are fandom-related? There tends to be a lot of fandom in these roundups, but that might just be because I'm more likely to bother to write down my fandom dreams. If I wrote down every dream I'd managed to retain on waking up, there would probably be a lot of 'dreamt of trying to find the right platform for my train again'.
Vivid mental image of Joe Goldberg of YOU on his knees, upright, those wide dark eyes very striking somehow; was he looking at the camera? A guy has just suggested he get on his knees - not unkindly, not coercively. If it were anyone but Joe, I'd say he freely acquiesced, but obviously Joe always has a lot of considerations going on beyond 'is this what I want in this moment?', e.g. 'will this get me closer to the woman I find interesting?' or 'will this help me get away with my various murders?'
Everyone's clothed at this point. But Joe is about to blow this guy, and you can see in his eyes that he knows this and he hasn't entirely processed how he feels about it yet.
Dreamt I was at my aunt and uncle's West Sussex home for a big extended gathering, but a stag and a lion got into the house somehow, and we all had to quickly shut ourselves behind an interior door. Nobody was badly hurt, but the lion slightly grazed my knuckles with its teeth when I was urgently pulling the door shut. The door was glass, so we could get a good look at the animals and know when they'd left through the open back door and it was safe to emerge. Curiously, the lion and the stag showed absolutely no interest in each other; they only cared about us!
Dreamt that I was put in front of a class of young students - preteens, early teens? - with the expectation that I would put on some sort of play for them. I ended up improvising a performance (speaking to the pupils and playing off their reactions) in which I was a slightly older Light Yagami in the role of their teacher, complete with belting out 'Where Is the Justice?' from the Death Note musical, which seems ill-advised.
Dreamt I was caught in a time loop in some sort of big, complicated building; maybe a university? I was there with a friend called Catherine - not an actual person, although she did look a little like a Katherine I know. I was trying to prevent either of us from getting shot in the head, which caused the loop to reset whenever it happened, but I was unable to persuade Catherine to leave the building, so I was trying to find another way to prevent our deaths. I did not attempt to use the 'hey, I know for a fact someone with a gun is going to turn up and try to shoot you' argument to convince Catherine to leave; perhaps I should have given it a shot, so to speak.
Dreamt you could ask your Final Fantasy VII Remake series party members questions aloud while you played, and, if a response was programmed in, they would answer. I was asking them all for their thoughts on other party members, e.g. 'What do you think about Aerith?'
If you asked Sephiroth 'What do you think about Zack?', during a flashback in which Sephiroth was in the party, he would ramble on for absolutely ages.
This is at least the third dream I've had in which it's possible to talk to the characters aloud while playing videogames.
Dreamt of a dark-haired teenage boy who wanted to go to Waterloo Road to study the piano, but he wasn't quite skilled enough to get in. In the end, he wrote a slightly heartbreaking letter to his two best friends, who had got into Waterloo Road, about how he couldn't join them and he'd miss them while they were at a different school, but he just had to accept that he was on a level of ability below them and would inevitably be left behind. I got very invested, but, on waking up, the idea that Waterloo Road has high standards is hilarious.
Dreamt my housemates and I saved the world at some sort of comedy event - fought some sort of evil? - and we found at the next iteration of the event that seats had been reserved to thank us. I should hope so.
Dreamt that Lee Mack had written multiple himself/himself fics.
Dreamt that Kris of Deltarune became possessed and tried to kill me, which, to be honest, is a fairly standard thing to happen for Kris.
Dreamt that my housemates, my brothers and I were standing near an outdoor swimming pool in which Pokémon, it appeared, liked to swim sometimes; every so often a Pokémon would show up and jump in to swim around a bit. At one point a Bulbasaur came running to the pool, and then ran up to me instead and leapt into my arms. I got to cuddle a Bulbasaur in my dream. Incredibly important news.
A Charmander also jumped into Rei's arms, and Rei was able to hold it briefly! But they accidentally spilled their coffee on the Charmander, so it hopped back down and jumped into the pool to wash it off. We were all briefly alarmed, because surely the Charmander would die? But it seemed fine, even though its tail was immersed; somehow the flame kept burning underwater!
What proportion of my dreams are fandom-related? There tends to be a lot of fandom in these roundups, but that might just be because I'm more likely to bother to write down my fandom dreams. If I wrote down every dream I'd managed to retain on waking up, there would probably be a lot of 'dreamt of trying to find the right platform for my train again'.