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Dream-World; Planet from my nightmares
Topic Started: Sep 28 2009, 03:02 PM (2,818 Views)
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I've been having some vivid dreams lately. One that has been re-occurring is the one about an alien planet. In most dreams I'm alone, but in one of the dreams I was there supposedly on a survival course with other people.

This won't be an extensive project. It'll be short and sweet, I'm not going to cover much. Maybe you guys could help fill in the gaps? :)

The planet itself... I couldn't get a lot of details, so first I'll add the info I gathered then make suggestions as to what the info might mean if we were talking about a real planet.

It has two moons, one a very Luna-like white-coloured satellite with many craters that's either very big or very close (unsure which, but causes great tidal effects as was demonstrated in the survival course dream) and appears to take up nearly a quarter of the whole sky. The other moon is terracotta red and black, smaller (or further away, again unsure, appearing the size that Luna does in Earth's sky) and always seems to tag along with the "bigger" moon, though I don't know if its orbit is in any way affected by the bigger moon.

The gravity was stronger by a large degree. I could feel the effects initially and I'll say it was like nothing I've ever felt before. Like my eyeballs were being squeezed (I actually freaked out because I thought they would burst) and like my neck was going to snap. Probably nothing like increased gravity in real life as I have never experienced real gravity increases, but my mind was tricked for a moment into believing that was what I was feeling. However these sensations were brief and faded rapidly. According to the instructor we'd "get used to it". :rolleyes: As if that would really happen.

One of the dreams I was on a sandy floor on the ground. The sand was very chunky and coarse. The plants were hard to describe, especially since I can't remember all that well what they looked like. I just remember them being like mounds several metres high of grass, conifer needles or moss but the mounds themselves were plants - not just the greenery covering them. There were many small animals on the ground that had the ability to morph their shape to a limited degree - they were multicellular (I think? Macroscopic at least), globular in shape and had semi-permanent pseudopods. They disappeared into the plant mounds and reappeared through seemingly impossible gaps. Tiny and slow moving I doubt they were a threat, they were however brightly coloured (yellow and blue) suggesting they might have been poisonous. I didn't notice (or maybe can't remember) if they had any obvious sensory or feeding organs.

We were by a lake, and a storm began to brew over the lake so we headed into a cave where more of these little globular animals stuck to the walls in the thousands. This is where it began to get freaky... some of them fell off on top of us (though nothing bad came of it). The floor was covered in a yellowy-white mush that looked like cottage cheese and smelled awful. I felt really sick and frightened by it and we had to walk through it. Haven't got a clue what that was all about, maybe it was their dead rotting? Or maybe their faeces?

Anyway I watched one of them being preyed upon by a hexapod that looked like a flying insect yet it had soft skin - not an exoskeleton. Also, I call it a hexapod only because of a similar creature I saw which I will describe later (I'm guessing is a relative of this one). This one only had four legs but where you'd expect to see a third pair it had wings instead. Interestingly, this one also had poison colours - black with yellow-blue-green markings on top.

I'm not sure what happened after that, it's almost as if the dream skipped forward to night-time. Woke up to hear screams, one of the students was being consumed by a rapidly-moving slime-mould-like organism. It was sick, it covered her whole body and constricted her until she stopped struggling, then squeezed out her innards for some reason. I had tried to grab her hand before it consumed her and some of it got on my arm and began to burn and itch. I felt my shoes sticking to the ground like something was pulling, only to find this stuff was all over the place. You know when you have really scary dreams, and you feel like no matter where you run, you're going to die anyway, and it fills you with terror? Well, this was one of those dreams.

Also, remember when I said we'd seen a demonstration of the moon's tidal effects? Well, the whole area was bright (making the silvery slime-mould visible) with moonlight and it became apparent after jumping into the water that the lake from earlier had risen by metres - we were atop the plant mounds before we jumped in. I might add, though this might be irrelevant, that the plants had a very hard glassy corral-like texture. Anyway, everyone agreed that the slime-mould couldn't follow us into the water and then I woke up.

A later dream that was less detailed was set in a dense conifer-like forest up a mountain or hill. The little red moon was visible on the horizon. The trees were tall and the trunks very thick and chunky, but there were very few side-branches and the ones that were there were very fine and bare. Again, the trees seemed to be covered in a layer of green fuzz rather than having defined leaves. Not much happened at all except being preyed upon by a hexapodal carnivore that ran in a winding motion and covered a lot of ground very fast. It appeared very big-cat-like. It had a strange mouth - two upper mandibles with many teeth and two lower mandibles with fewer teeth (but big fangs at the end) and a single serrated piece between the two lower mandibles that could protrude or hide in a sheath. The piece was like a long serrated knife, a weapon used for killing. I don't remember any details of eyes or other sensory organs. I woke up shortly after it started running towards me.

That's all the details I have. I may or may not further develop this. Comments, adaptations, ideas, heck even complete take-overs welcome.
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Wow. I never remember my dreams. This would make a pretty cool sci-fi thriller!

I'm interested in the animals and plants you descibed. Could you possibly provide pictures?
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I remember my dreams but never usually to this detail. There were more dreams about it but these are the only two I remember with this much clarity. Maybe because with the first one I was so scared I couldn't get back to sleep, so I passed the time by jotting it down in a note pad.

I will provide a few pictures but they will be by no means accurate. Every time I try to draw them, they never look how they did in the dream. :(
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Just a general idea of how they looked, thats all. I'm finding it hard to imagine your hexapod-cat with two sets of mandibles, for example.
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Wow really cool. Almost as cool as that one about the Russian revolution and centaurs I had.

6 legged cat's? Sound like Treecats apart from the jaws.

I wish dreams could be recorded and shared.
Edited by lamna, Sep 28 2009, 03:34 PM.
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Ok, well I have a page of brief sketches, if that helps. I'll scan in a moment, I have some other things to scan anyway so I may as well. Might not be uploaded until tomorrow afternoon though.

lamna: Haha, really? What happened in your dream? Yeah, I say cat-like only because it's the best way I can describe the paws and shoulder muscles. Not much at all was cat-like to be honest.
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Interesting dreams, sounds like a case of Astral Projection ! I too have had such dreams, some amazing, others just plain weird ! I can't wait to see what they look like ^_^



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The 'skuda' creature in my story came from a dream......

A moon covering nearly 1/4 the sky?! Jeez! That had to been close/large!

Ballpark figgering here....

Our moon take up appox. 1/2 a single degree of the sky....

The sky is 180 degrees....

1/4 would be 45 degrees....

That's 90 times bigger(to the eye) then our moon.....that be huge!

I'm asking a lot, is there any chance the phases on this moon could be visibly seen to change? That would suggest it were very close.
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Sounds more like a binary planet system than a moon. I don't know if that kind of system could be stable or work, but I don't see why not.

Quick history lesson. The cossacks were (and still are) distinct groups in Russia that were excellent cavalry and mounted infantry. They were favoured in Imperial Russia and often used to quell rebellions. So when the Bolsheviks started to take over they wanted to oppress and take away the cossacks rights, and the majority of cossacks fought for the White army.

The dream basically substituted the cossacks for centaurs with Russian Don horse bodies, and somehow I ended up in the Caucasus fighting commies with. It did not make a lot of sense. One minute I was in Ukraine trying to convince a Nestor Makhno type anarchist to fight the bolshies, the next in Eastern Siberia helping a Japanese occupied town under siege. There were also some rather, *ahem* non-family friendly bits with a very pretty centaur girl. Yeah...
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Hmmm.....If it was a binary planet, then my guess would be the moon/planet seen must not have much of a atmosphere; since craters could be seen.

Kay-kay knows better me, though.

I can't tell on the info if they were tidally locked: if they had been; the big moon wouldn't have moved about the sky...but Kay-kay doesn't outright say it moved about or didn't.....

Also if they were tidally locked; there shouldn't have been much tides; though of course tides could have been caused by the other moon or it's sun.



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There seem to be two main groups of animals I can see, the slime-mould creatures and the hexapods. The hexapods seem to be mainly predators and the slim-moulds seem to be herbivores and predators.
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This sounds very interesting please load those pictures when you can and maybe update if you have a related dream or memory I find this world facinating.

And as for ideas maybe the blobs in the caves and plants are the same type gathering minerals in the caves and transporting it to the plants in a symbiotic relationship maybe in exchange for shelter or food inside the plant?

If you remember some thing that disporves this like different features then go ahead and say so I don't mind it was just an idea. :D
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If you keep a dream journal you should be able to trick your brain into become conscious while sleeping, thereby giving you lucid dreams (ie, dreams you control and are aware are dreams). It would be fun to explore your little dream planet in a lucid dream, that way nothing could "hurt" you and you would be free to look at what your subconscious has made.
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maybe the moon being so big could be explained with something to do with the atmosphere, the light from the moon would be bent as it traveled through a thicker(or deeper)atmosphere(resulting from a higher gravity)... although the moon would still be much bigger/closer than ours the atmosphere thing might make it slightly more believable, i dunno...
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I find that idea to be preposterous. Besides I only remember a dream every 6 months or so, and then for not very long.

I only have 2 dreams that really have stick with me. One about going to a very odd aquarium with a escaped therapod in it, and one about being chased in a but by a similer therapod, then hiding in a nursery or "kindergarten" as the Krauts say and trying to negotiate with the dinosaur before escaping.
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