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Last night was moderately interrupted, sleep-wise, which has the dubious advantage of helping me remember the madness running around inside my head. Curiously, the first dream I remember is actually quite long and (relatively) coherent... always fun, right?
We were going down to the seafront, but the tide was right in. And I mean right in: the water (dark and choppy) was level with the concrete promenade, while there should be a beach down below.
At least, mostly it was. You know how little waves push up the beach, then fall back before the next one? That happened, but on a massive scale. The water dropped a good six feet down, and probably 20 feet back from the promenade. Then, a few seconds later, it came back up. Not like a tsunami - just gentle breakers that happened to massively alter the water level.
Down on the beach, in the times when it wasn't under two meters of water, were Pokemon.[1] A veritable throng of them, including Bellsprout and a fictional evolution of it (which looked like Bellsprout with a larger, red flower, or possibly two of them - maybe it was Mega Bellsprout?), and something rocky. People went down to try and catch them, and I had to try and get them back up before the next wave.
Further down the seafront there was going to be a concert, which was where we were supposed to be going. I think it was a band, but one where the lead singer (very much in the 80s rock and roll style) was the only person anyone knew. When we got there, things slipped somewhat into computer game mode.
You could modify your avatar (which was now 'you', attending the concert) to do things, and the singer's avatar would pop in to interact with it. I remember one woman in white holding up a 'magic' finger, summoning him; I also remember someone giving their avatar no trousers, which made him appear to tell them off.
The concert, by this time, was taking place at the top of a sloping game level: two hills with random town-like obstacles on them, joined together by intermittant bridges. It was all vaguely glossy and stylised. I wandered down to the bottom, where my house was, then back to the top. Then I was/watched a 'housewife' avatar (apparently - I don't know why I stuck that mental label on her) destroy the block that was holding in the lava at the very top.
Turns out the level wasn't very well designed: once released, the lava promptly flooded down at running speed, covering virtually everything. The avatar ran ahead, on fire,[2] but got killed several times before reaching the swimming pool right before the end. And then I woke up.
[1] Blame 'Pokemon Go'.
[2] It's just occured to me that in terms of shape (and having her head on fire), she looked a fair bit like Anger from Inside Out, a picture of whom I saw yesterday evening.
I'm including this one mostly for the visuals. I was going through a vertical maze. Imagine a central, circular tower, with hedges wrapped around it, but in such a way that you can climb up to different levels. From the outside, it looked like it had swirls and circles drawn on it in hedges; there might have been some depth to the hedges, too (ie, multiple layers at a single altitude).
At the top was a viewing platform,[3] and we had a discussion about where we hadn't been - the back of the maze, which seemed to be only accessible by a staircase from the top. I did suggest we take the straight path down from the exit - a sloping path which looked like it had been folded over a cliff, making one side of it nearly vertical - but was told that would be boring.
[3] Which might have resembled the 'garden' area in Labyrinth, which movie I've at least seen mentioned in the last couple of days.
We were going down to the seafront, but the tide was right in. And I mean right in: the water (dark and choppy) was level with the concrete promenade, while there should be a beach down below.
At least, mostly it was. You know how little waves push up the beach, then fall back before the next one? That happened, but on a massive scale. The water dropped a good six feet down, and probably 20 feet back from the promenade. Then, a few seconds later, it came back up. Not like a tsunami - just gentle breakers that happened to massively alter the water level.
Down on the beach, in the times when it wasn't under two meters of water, were Pokemon.[1] A veritable throng of them, including Bellsprout and a fictional evolution of it (which looked like Bellsprout with a larger, red flower, or possibly two of them - maybe it was Mega Bellsprout?), and something rocky. People went down to try and catch them, and I had to try and get them back up before the next wave.
Further down the seafront there was going to be a concert, which was where we were supposed to be going. I think it was a band, but one where the lead singer (very much in the 80s rock and roll style) was the only person anyone knew. When we got there, things slipped somewhat into computer game mode.
You could modify your avatar (which was now 'you', attending the concert) to do things, and the singer's avatar would pop in to interact with it. I remember one woman in white holding up a 'magic' finger, summoning him; I also remember someone giving their avatar no trousers, which made him appear to tell them off.
The concert, by this time, was taking place at the top of a sloping game level: two hills with random town-like obstacles on them, joined together by intermittant bridges. It was all vaguely glossy and stylised. I wandered down to the bottom, where my house was, then back to the top. Then I was/watched a 'housewife' avatar (apparently - I don't know why I stuck that mental label on her) destroy the block that was holding in the lava at the very top.
Turns out the level wasn't very well designed: once released, the lava promptly flooded down at running speed, covering virtually everything. The avatar ran ahead, on fire,[2] but got killed several times before reaching the swimming pool right before the end. And then I woke up.
[1] Blame 'Pokemon Go'.
[2] It's just occured to me that in terms of shape (and having her head on fire), she looked a fair bit like Anger from Inside Out, a picture of whom I saw yesterday evening.
I'm including this one mostly for the visuals. I was going through a vertical maze. Imagine a central, circular tower, with hedges wrapped around it, but in such a way that you can climb up to different levels. From the outside, it looked like it had swirls and circles drawn on it in hedges; there might have been some depth to the hedges, too (ie, multiple layers at a single altitude).
At the top was a viewing platform,[3] and we had a discussion about where we hadn't been - the back of the maze, which seemed to be only accessible by a staircase from the top. I did suggest we take the straight path down from the exit - a sloping path which looked like it had been folded over a cliff, making one side of it nearly vertical - but was told that would be boring.
[3] Which might have resembled the 'garden' area in Labyrinth, which movie I've at least seen mentioned in the last couple of days.
