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Dream-World; Planet from my nightmares
Topic Started: Sep 28 2009, 03:02 PM (2,821 Views)
KayKay
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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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Ddraig Goch
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KayKay, I was wondering if I could ask a favour... I have English homework due in for half-term, which requires that I write snippets from an autobiography that I will supposedly write in the future (?). If you wouldn't mind, could I use your dream as a basis for the work?
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Hm... how exactly will it be used a basis for your work, if you don't mind me asking?

(no illustrations yet I'm afraid, I've had a shitty day and I'm not in the mood to post them, will be done eventually though)
Edited by KayKay, Sep 29 2009, 11:42 AM.
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Well, writing the autobiography as though I was one of the people on the planet with you, and being one of those who are presumably rescued from this terrifying world.
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Sounds interesting. Yeah, sure. Would you be willing to share the work once it's finished? I understand if that could be a problem in case the teachers think you stole it from here if you posted it here.
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Sounds interesting. But why not have bitter war memories. Just steal some letters from WW1 and swap all references to Germany for Luxembourg.
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Thanks! Just to warn you, I may have to invent some more animals/plants to flesh out the story line (if this dream is ever turned into an actual project, you probably won't want to use them, as they won't be very imaginative - the teachers are interested in the linguistic side of it and not the exobiological side). Also, I wouldn't worry about teachers thinking I have simply plageorised your work - I think I'm safe in saying that none of my teachers are interested in speculative evoloution, or use this site. It might take me a while to finish, but I'll post it as soon as I'm done.
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What I meant was, if you posted your work here and they did find it (at our schools teachers often searched up phrases and sentences of our work to make sure it wasn't available elsewhere online) they may or may not believe you are Ddraig Coch of SE. Our teachers often warned us not to post our work online, I don't know how careful your teachers are though. Just be careful.
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Ok, thanks for the warning. By the way, for the homework I've named the planet Kaykus, and the moons Lunus A and Lunus B (A being the larger of the two). Please let me know if you'd prefer something else.
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My only spec dream was where I had gone to this zoo and it was filled with darwin four anamels.
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Those are fine, I suck at naming things so they're probably better than what I'd come up with.

Darwin four? Is that a spec.evo. project?
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No it's the world from Alien planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_planet
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KayKay
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Oh I think I remember that. I didn't see the whole thing, I wasn't able to unfortunately.

On an unrelated note I have some quick sketches in note-form of the life on this planet:

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Good notes. I like the look of the hexapod predator.
So you dreamed all this, in my dreams any creature is just a blur.
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Unfortunately, while there is more I don't really remember it. I can usually remember dreams quite well, but rarely do I ever have any about creatures especially ones off the top of my head. The illustrations aren't accurate unfortunately, they only vaguely resemble what I saw.

The other most vivid one I had about a creature was about seeing a wolf-like creature outside my bedroom window whose eyes receded back into its sockets and maggots started wriggling out from all over its face, kind of like it was performing an attack of some kind.
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Thanks for the drawings, they will really help. My weirdest dream involved a puppet show and a giant hotdog.
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