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| Dream Creatures; Speculation of the subconcious! | |
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| Bassoe | Sep 11 2017, 05:54 PM Post #151 |
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Zygote
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What looked like a humpback whale, only the flippers and tail flukes were missing, instead it had a flexible sheet of musculature around its body so it could swim, nudibranch-style. Implausible yet strangely adorable. |
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| Pangolin12 | Sep 28 2017, 01:16 PM Post #152 |
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Nerd
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I had a dream about an aquatic yak. I don’t think I can use it for anything (since even-toed ungulates evolving to be aquatic has already occured), but it was still cool. |
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| Yiqi15 | Sep 28 2017, 02:57 PM Post #153 |
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Prime Specimen
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| Mr Mysterio | Sep 28 2017, 06:58 PM Post #154 |
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I've said this before, but I don't understand y'all who consistently dream about biologically plausible creatures, because the creatures that show up in my dreams are usually way more surreal. Here's a few: - Gliding leeches that had infested our home. Their bodies were dark, but they had white, silky-looking "fins" that they used to glide from host to host. I should note that I only recently learned that gliding leeches actually are a thing, and that I didn't know they existed before I had this dream. - A creature that looked like a small gazelle, only with humanoid hands in place of hooves (which it still walked on). It walked silently through the halls of an empty school. It moved slowly, and didn't seem aggressive in any way. It didn't seem dangerous, but it gave me a sense of being... powerful? Like it was something to be respected? If that makes any sense at all. - A giant Siamese fighting fish inside an equally giant fish bowl. It had very large, almost bulbous eyes, and swam in slow hypnotic circles inside its bowl. Looking deep into its eyes would transport you to a small door in a wall, behind which was a person that would truthfully answer any one question about anything, so long as you slid five cents underneath the door. - A creature called the Goatfly that could make sentient cocoons that looked and acted like human beings so convincingly that the cocoon itself thought it was a real person. I never actually got to see what a Goatfly actually looked like or what it did once it hatched, but I was given the impression that it was a very deadly and cunning creature. |
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| Nembrotha | Oct 17 2017, 04:24 PM Post #155 |
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I hope I'm not necroposting by typing this... And this one doesn't seem plausible at all. Maybe. In a dream I had last night, I saw animals that can only be described as absolutely massive cockroaches. They lived on a farm in New Zealand, where they lived underground until they needed to eat again. They came out from beneath a dry, desolate field where radishes the size of basketballs once grew. These roaches towered above us, even when they weren't fully above ground. They were probably the size of a two-story house, if not larger, and I actually managed to walk across the leg of one of them that had not fully resurfaced. They were a dry yellow, almost sandy colour, with a thick exoskeleton that was rigid enough for me to walk across. If I remember correctly, they also had mantis-like forelimbs, while the remaining four limbs were very thick and upright, uncannily similar to a mammal's, if a bit more splayed, and of course, insectoid. Despite their massive size, their antennae were extremely, almost laughably small. The eyes were massive and coal-black, lacking any sense of awareness, and were rather lifeless looking. They lacked any vestige of wings, and their abdomen was extremely well armoured. I'm pretty sure that these monstrous bugs were to blame for the desertification of the pasture and the lack of radishes. Amazingly, I don't remember being too scared by the roaches. I'm 1000% sure that if they were to appear in real life, I'd be scared beyond death. I like to believe that these massive roaches were recyclers of the ecosystem. They were essentially the "Plant Reapers" of this dream world, which would wipe out all vegetation in their area before they went back to sleep, allowing the vegetation to regrow from their shed exoskeletons. They were actually friendly to humans and didn't show any sort of animosity towards me, but I imagine that they'd easily overpower anyone whom tries to mess with them. |
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| Mr Mysterio | Oct 27 2017, 08:24 PM Post #156 |
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I dreamed last night that I was in this huge library (one could say that this is me reading posts from the Library project too much but this library wasn't infinite at all), only there was no roof. It was like the roof of the library had been ripped off or something, because at some point the walls, distant and far away, just ended, and the sky was visible. There were a bunch of very tall people wearing robes walking around. Occasionally, they would reach out a hand to touch one of the books but I never saw them read any. Their skin was a sort of decomposed-ish yellowy-brown, they were all bald, and their necks were unnaturally elongated. They were completely silent, not even making footsteps, and had what looked like pennies or coins over their eyes. They were kind of creepy, but overall they weren’t menacing or threatening in any way. A few of them nodded politely at me, but that’s the only acknowledgement i got from any of them. The reason everyone was silent was because the library had “predators” in it. I never actually saw one, but it was the kind of thing where Dream-Me already knew about them somehow, so I still knew what they looked like, which was like paper-mache spiders. They sometimes would crawl around like insects, and sometimes they floated in the breeze, because they were as light as paper and could do that. But most importantly is they hunted primarily by sound and touch, because they were blind, having no eyes. One would come along and rip a chunk out of you, and your cries of pain would inevitably attract a swarm of them. Because of this the robed people were big on training themselves to deal with great amounts of pain with complete silence. Scattered around the library were these little “oases”, which were basically small, fancy little indoor gardens, complete with a lily pond, benches, flowering shrubs, and a single tree, growing over the pond, that grew fruit that looked vaguely like pomegranates, but I couldn't be sure. Every single oasis in this library was exactly the same, down to the number of lily pads in the pond. I successfully made it to an oasis without any paper predators hearing me, and found a single robed man standing in there, eating a pomegranate. His neck wasn't quite as long as the others, and his robe a little more form-fitting, but he had the same pigmentation and coins over his eyes as the others. Without saying a single word (which was normal for them), he handed me a book which looked like it’d been made out of newspaper clippings somehow. On the front cover was the title, “an explanation”, all in lowercase. Unfortunately, I woke up before I could open it up and read it. |
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| Lowry | Oct 28 2017, 05:59 PM Post #157 |
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ARH-WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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So I've been having a lot of baleen whale-themed dreams lately, just them floating around me and generally chilling, and that got me thinking how radical their skulls look and what that would appear like in future possible terrestrials. Another dream answers my musings when I was attacked by large land-whale that waddled around on stumpy legs |
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| GlarnBoudin | Oct 29 2017, 12:50 PM Post #158 |
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Disgusting Skin Fetishist
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This is a bit of an odd one - the creatures I dreamed of were fossils. Basically, I was in a huge cavern that was built like a zoo exhibit, with a tunnel along the side similar to the indoor portions of the Bronx Zoo's gorilla exhibit. The area was huge and mostly flooded, with the viewing tunnels located several stories up - there were some cliffs at the level of the observation windows that had tropical vegetation atop them, but besides a coiled-up mottled brown-and-white python that was camouflaged with the leaf litter, there wasn't anything alive in the exhibit; the creatures in question were remains that were located on little pedestals inside the tunnel. I can't remember the specifics, but I do remember three things: A red river hog femur, the skull of a carnivorous gorilla relative minus the lower jaw, and the skull of an utterly bizarre baboon. Basically, it had a very elongated snout, looking more like this hog than a baboon, complete with those cheek extensions; however, the cheek bones were even more extravagant, going down the whole length of the animal's snout like airplane wings. The watery area was then broken into by multiple iterations of Godzilla - Shin, Millennium, Legendary, and 1985, to be more precise, but that's another story. A few days earlier, I dreamed that I was a sort of guiding spirit for a rowdy band of explorers reminiscent of the crew from Disney's Atlantis, led by a big buff red oni-looking guy with armored skin like a spider crab's shell - think the Rourke of the group. I shapeshifted into several critters to keep up with the group, the most memorable ones being a sort of cream-tan fennec fox-like animal with long legs and a highly active white-and-gold gecko like lizard; we were in a sort of tropical Hawaii-type setting, but I lead them into the island's interior, which was ringed with tropical dry forest and mulch-like soil and then thinned into an open environment host to a large abandoned temple - I knew somehow that this was once a temple dedicated to water, but it had long ago 'dried up'. Eventually, the group came to the center of the group, wherein a large glass cylinder (I think - it's kinda vague) extended from ceiling to floor with the treasure they were looking for hovering within it - something called the Water Stone, which looked like two pyramids with the bases pressed together. It was sorta.... stationary in the air, not moving at all, and was as dull as stone; I warned the leader about activating it, but he did anyway. At once, it lit up to glow sea green, and a MASSIVE wave of water coming from all directions burst out from it, instantly completely and totally flooding the temple before sea monsters began to blast out of it. I had semi-conscious control of the monsters that came out of the crystal, but the only one I remember summoning was an elongated creature nearly identical to Sharktopus, but more elongated and covered in armor like the Sea Emperor from Subnautica. |
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| GreatAuk | Dec 1 2017, 02:33 PM Post #159 |
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Northern Penguin
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I read this post a few months ago, the very night i read this i had a dream which contained a small feathered Tyrannosaur and a skeleton of a Dicynodont, maybe Placerias. |
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| SpeculativeNebula | Dec 1 2017, 06:19 PM Post #160 |
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The ones in my dreams are rarely plausible or realistic. I was dozing off the other day with my back against the heater, crouched with my eyes closed, and for a split second saw and felt this beetle-like creature about as long as a large dinner plate is in diameter scurry from my back onto my shoulder very quickly. I especially felt it's leg/foot push off my face, with that velcro-like feeling that larger insects give when they walk on your skin. It woke me with a slight jump, wasn't scary or anything just unexpected. Was a very pretty beetle though, kind of turquoise blue with glass-like clear wings folded against it's back and vestigial wing cases formed into looping magenta ornaments. I had my eyes closed but was in that semi-dream state where your brain tricks you into thinking you're awake and can see the room you're in and everything in it. |
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| GlarnBoudin | Feb 7 2018, 11:27 AM Post #161 |
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Disgusting Skin Fetishist
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Had a hazy dream a few days ago; can't remember the details too well, but I do remember that for some reason an elephant, a mastodon, and a mammoth were placed on a terraformed world as the only tetrapods and promptly exploded in diversity. For some reason, the only one that I clearly remember is the mammoth's evolution; over time, its trunk shrank, the tusks vanished, and it developed a bauplan like an indricothere mixed with a horse. |
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| ZoologicalBotanist | Feb 7 2018, 11:34 AM Post #162 |
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Mixotrophic Sea Slug
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Once as a young child I had a nightmare about giant carnivorous koi fish with razor sharp teeth that were large enough to swallow a man whole. (They were literal koi, not an existing koi-like species)
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| GreatAuk | Mar 2 2018, 07:11 AM Post #163 |
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Not sure if this counts, but I had a dream recently about someone saying that evolution is false because there are squids in Minecraft.
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| Adman | Mar 2 2018, 07:31 AM Post #164 |
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Totally not lamna
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Three years ago I wrote down a dream in a dream journal. I was on a watercraft with wide wing-like projections. Me and a couple of other people were controlling and holding onto the craft by way of handlebars on the wing-like projections. If I remember correctly it was sleek and bullet-shaped at the center, and the craft as a whole was white in color. We were going down a river, when we spotted a group of about six bird-like shapes sailing on the water. They were brownish in color, with black wings that had very streamlined feathers. They held their heads inside their downy plumage while moving, holding their wings up like a sailboat. On the watercraft, they appeared to be the size of regular chickens, which prompted me to yell out "SWAMPHEN!" for some reason. Then, one of the birds put down its wings, and revealed a stout, almost jacana-like head, which had a brightly-colored casque on it. Before I knew what was going on, I was dragged off the watercraft by one of these birds, and that's when I woke up. Much more recently I wrote down another dream, although this was different. I had a dream where I had a lot of pimples on my body, and I popped two on my chest. To my horror, two grub/caterpillar-like larvae popped out of each pimple, and shot up on to my desk (I was back at the old house). I looked away for a split second, and these larvae turned into these solid praying mantis-like creatures, except they all had thick legs and didn’t move, I assumed they were a pupal stage. I then looked around, and when I got back to them they had turned into dainty lacewing-like creatures, which I got so angry at that I simply crushed them with my hands. Edited by Adman, Mar 2 2018, 07:33 AM.
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Projects and concepts that I have stewing around Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients) Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals. Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day. Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent. Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold. The Park- ??? Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth. World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies. The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems.. | |
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| A small dog | Mar 16 2018, 07:09 AM Post #165 |
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I recently had a dream where I was looking at a book about recently extinct animals, these are the only ones I remembered: -a 400 foot tall elephant with a long tail, pretty far from realistic. -something like a Ronto from Star Wars, but with a face like a rancor and frills like Amaurgasaurus, but they looked fleshier than that. -finally, something like a pure white meercat with only front limbs that apparently lived in burrows and ate its own children for sport. |
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Projects I'm probably going to do: Evolutionary continuum: Currently unnamed project- takes place 250 million years after the extinction of man Alternative Evolution: The Sanctuary- The best zoo in the world The Habitable Zone: Sapients of the universe- exactly what it sounds like Alternate universes: A bestiary of the land of Hyrule- again, exactly what it sounds like Ixuligaxa- A Sheatheria-esque project but the wildlife came from the orvadacian and earlier. Café Cosmique: Ultimate power- A gritty reboot of Power rangers, but not too gritty, some xenobiology and posthumans The menagerie- A world where a team is formed to combat the increase of crimes by Folklorish and Mythological creatures To Sum It Up- a bestseller in the sanctuary universe, It focuses on Rises and Falls, Trials of the century, and the worst of the worst | |
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