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| Dream Creatures; Speculation of the subconcious! | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 10 2011, 01:34 PM (9,954 Views) | |
| Zorcuspine | Dec 21 2011, 12:06 PM Post #46 |
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Enjoying our azure blue world
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Pretty much although it was white like a zebra and as intelligent as a domestic dog |
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| seascorpion | Dec 21 2011, 07:10 PM Post #47 |
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Why Can't I Hold All These Mongols?
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what did it do in your dreams? |
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| Diplotomodon | Dec 24 2011, 08:57 PM Post #48 |
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nomen dubium
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Other people's dreams creep me out. So do mine. I vaguely remember this weird bird thing from a dream a few years ago. It had the basic form and size of a terror bird like Gastornis (maybe a bit larger), except it was this hideous pink color. Not neon pink, but the sort of pink you find on naked mole rats and the like, or a plucked chicken. It still had a few scraggly hairs or feathers sticking to it. I don't remember much about its behavior, but I do recall that it was very pissed off at something. I later made a picture of it (I've attached it here) and posted it online. I've called it the Skraygith. It lives in deserts and mountains and enjoys preying on candle-headed humanoids (if you Google hard enough you should find it). Oh yeah, I used to have a nightmare with this terrifying vampiric bear. Scared me out of my mind, and I'd lay there in the bed half-asleep and half-awake trying to fight the dream off and wake up completely. I'm sure some of you have had it before...you feel like you're awake and can see the other side of the room, but you can't move your body or feel your limbs? Yep, that was me when faced with a bloodsucking bear. Oh, and mountain goats seem to pop up in my dreams for no apparent reason. |
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| Holben | Dec 25 2011, 04:43 AM Post #49 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Never had sleep paralysis myself. Ah, so that's where it cam from. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Diplotomodon | Dec 25 2011, 06:29 AM Post #50 |
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nomen dubium
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Yes, that. I can't say if that was a case of sleep paralysis myself, but I was hoping to confirm this at some point if anyone knows more about those funky things that go on in your head at night. |
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| Amoeboid | Dec 25 2011, 10:10 PM Post #51 |
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Well if we are all talking about dream creatures, I had a dream a few months back with some strange organisms in it. There were 3 other beings with me, they were alien, I can't remember 2 of them, but I remember a third. He was a large, black, beetle car sized creature that floated in the air. He had a full body shell with some knobs that came off along the side and 4 large boney spines (rather rectangular in shape and tilted slightly back) that ran along its back. There were two spike like appendages oh his rear end, apparently they could not move. His head was very nautilus like, with a plate that covered the top of his head and a smaller one that covered the bottom, between them what looked like 50 to 80 long narrow tentacles that protruded from between the plates. no eyes were visible. There were two holes in the carapace with a membrane stretched across it that glowed orange, bioluminescence perhaps. He also had two organic jet propulsion siphon like things that came out from the back of him from a hole in the carapace. They were like the water jets that cephalopods have, but for gasses. In the dream he was very playful, he reminded me of the way a dolphin frolics, he had a yellow ball and would pick it up with his tendrils and throw it around and catch it. He was really quite cute, I've kept him around and doodle him occasionally. |
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Skatha: Sapients and other Fauna Exobio.deviantart.com | |
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| T.Neo | Dec 27 2011, 02:33 PM Post #52 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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Aww, that's got to be the cutest seriously-alien-and-weird-looking-but-awesome dream organism ever. I'd love to play a game of catch with them... |
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| Kamidio | Dec 31 2011, 10:41 PM Post #53 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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Maybe you could train it like a dolphin by toossing T. Neo's dream creature every time it does a trick right. |
SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes WAA
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| DNArchitect | Feb 13 2012, 04:50 AM Post #54 |
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Last Descendant of the Post-Nuclear Aberrants
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When I saw the title of the topic it reminded me of the Crackler from Godzilla: The Series. This giant lightning-shooting bug-thing was generated by this insomniac who underwent a new sleep treatment. Turns out the guy supressed his anger all his life, and that anger, combined with the sleep treatment, manifested the monster. They were finally able to defeat it by making the guy release all his anger. |
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| Jheuloh | Mar 31 2012, 09:08 PM Post #55 |
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I had a dream involving wild creatures last night, it was rather 'conservative' though, and actually is very much in the realm of not only possibility but plausibility. My dream was a "weird" in that I was actually a central character of the dream's storyline, most of my memorable dreams decidedly do not involve me at all. 'Stork bats' are what I shall call them, as they had long-ish legs. In the dream, these were huge by the standard of living bats, as they approached a bald eagle in wingspan and mass, and flew around in circles in broad daylight in flocks consiting of about 5-10. The patagiums were chamoisee colored, arms chestnut colored, and body ochre colored. (Note: give preference to the RBG preview rather than the demonstration pic, for chamoisee it's in the blob of RBG color previews rather than conveniently located in the article itself.) Their wings weren't transparent as is usual for bats. One individual in this flock of bats was leucistic. Asides from being bald eagle sized and flying in flocks in broad daylight, the weird thing about these bats was the presence of a tail just longer than their legs like a microbat, but they possessed the facial characteristics of megabats. Edited by Jheuloh, Mar 31 2012, 10:52 PM.
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Lives in a Jheuloh Bowl, under a Rock. Beware the Guard Lizard(s). <O> ,.., <O> | |
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| T.Neo | Apr 1 2012, 12:37 PM Post #56 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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Eagle-bats? Brilliant stuff! I had a dream a couple of days back, about a habitable moon of a gas giant (funnily enough). It was the second of two habitable moons (the other being similar to this, but dry, I remember what I saw of the surface being desert-like). This moon had continents strewn out across its surface, as if the tectonic plates they were positioned on were mangled molten cheese (it's difficult to describe, but I guess you could imagine the sort of patterns in oceania, only on a continental scale). The vegetation covered most of the land, and appeared varying shades of greenish yellow or brownish/maroon. The oddest thing however, is that most of the continents appeared to exhibit specular reflections, like an ocean, or a river. Perhaps these were continent-wide swamplands of some sort? I don't think it makes any sense, but it is interesting nontheless. |
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| Jheuloh | Apr 1 2012, 02:36 PM Post #57 |
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Big as an eagle? Yes. But its diet? Overgrown fruit bat is a better descriptor.
Edited by Jheuloh, Apr 1 2012, 02:37 PM.
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Lives in a Jheuloh Bowl, under a Rock. Beware the Guard Lizard(s). <O> ,.., <O> | |
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| T.Neo | Apr 1 2012, 03:04 PM Post #58 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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I guess frugivores can still be awesome... |
| A hard mathematical figure provides a sort of enlightenment to one's understanding of an idea that is never matched by mere guesswork. | |
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| Jheuloh | Apr 1 2012, 06:11 PM Post #59 |
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That doesn't mean I can't give my giant bats predatory relatives, however.
Edited by Jheuloh, Apr 1 2012, 07:44 PM.
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Lives in a Jheuloh Bowl, under a Rock. Beware the Guard Lizard(s). <O> ,.., <O> | |
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| T.Neo | Apr 16 2012, 07:56 AM Post #60 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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I think I dreamt up some pretty interesting organisms recently, but I don't remember what they were. Perhaps it'll come back to me... |
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