Undead Assault

Date Dreamed: 2013-12-21

Dream

A group of British space travelers are colonizing a new planet. Shortly after they arrive a plague starts to spread that causes large red sores on the skin and is deadly after a short time. Before they get that sorted out an army of undead arrives. Their town is on a hill with a fortified wall built around it, and the undead are landing boats in the nearby bay. The dream turns into a real time strategy game and I’m trying to repel wave after wave of undead with medieval infantry. Two huge ships of undead arrive and the odds are overwhelming so the British retreat behind the fortifications. Now I’m controlling a vampire unit and trying to fly over the wall. The flight controls are terrible and I can’t get it to work. The undead army moves away from the city after this (I’m guessing because they can’t breach the walls?). I notice a building near the beach that has multiple squads of pikemen standing around it and realize it is a unit spawner for my army. I debate if I should use these units to pursue the undead or guard the shore.

Context Explanations

A unit spawner is a video game construct the continuously generates game pieces. In this case, squads of pikemen (dudes with long spears). All my other video game jargon should be fairly understandable.

Plot Holes

I’m not real sure why people capable of space travel were engaging in medieval style combat, and this is possibly the first time that an army has ever been defeated by poor flight controls.

Erection?

Strategically Yes

Analysis

This seems like a big amalgamation of media I’ve experienced in the recent past. I see some Age of Empires II (real time medieval combat), Game of Thrones (undead armies and siege battles), Lego Marvel (poor flight controls), Dr. Who (British space travel), and Heroes of Might and Magic (unit design, especially the undead). The general plot is very similar my last dream, so you could probably copy that analysis for this one. I sure have a lot of dreams about vampires. Also, I think colonizing a new planet is crazy dangerous.

Auguries

This dream sounds kind of like Ragnarök. We’ve also been getting plenty of snow recently so this might be the start of Fimbulwinter. I’m pretty sure the apocalypse is coming.

Hitting Vampires with Folding Chairs

Date Dreamed: 2013-12-19

Dream

I’m running with two other survivors through a warehouse trying to escape some vampires. One of my companions is carrying a folding table and when we get to an overhead door we use it to make a barricade. The opening is wider than the table so we start adding folding chairs next to the table. More survivors start helping us build the barricade (aka waist high line of folded chairs), but now the vampire leader is taking chairs off from the other side. To stop him, I pick up one of the chairs and hit him in the head with it. The chair caused no damage other than messing up his hair. After I've been beating their leader about the head and shoulders for a while the vampires leave the warehouse (for reasons other than fear of folding chairs). Our group of survivors follow them out into an industrial park filled with numerous brick warehouses and grass lawns in between asphalt paths. Five female vampires break off from their pack to slow us down. I engage them, still wielding my folding chair. The vampires can run fast but can't turn well, so the fighting consists of them charging and me sidestepping and hitting them in the back. I'm trying to keep from getting surrounded while also leading them away from my group. One vampire heads towards the other survivors and I pursue. She finds three babies lying on the ground undefended. The dream ends just when things are getting exciting.

Context Explanations

Pure fantasy here.

Plot Holes

Were we in a warehouse full of folding furniture? Why would we follow the vampires that we were just running from? It was also daylight out, so I guess the vampires were daywalkers.

Erection?

Industrially Yes

Analysis

The vampires are my problems and the barricade of folding chairs is my feeble attempts to solve them. When the vampires leave it is the same as when my problems solve themselves, and then I follow because I find the conclusion somewhat unsatisfying.

Auguries

I should try to keep a better weapon than a folding chair handy in case I get attacked by vampires in the future.

Vampires with Vision Problems

Date Dreamed: 2013-12-09

Dream

A family of vampires is concerned because their daughter is losing her vision. They somehow find a fruit that fixes the problem (convenient). An older male vampire comes to visit and also an aunt and cousin. The adults are having a discussion at the kitchen table while the girl and her (female) cousin eavesdrop outside the room. The adults get angry that the visiting man is rich and that the aunt lost her version. My dream retcons some coke-bottle glasses onto her. The dream switches to a scene with the mother and daughter and they are trying to fix some problems (unspecified) by putting the house out to sea (?). The mother leaves because the process will age anyone inside the house (?!?), but tells the daughter that it will be good for her to stay, which the daughter resents. The daughter then has a large dog with her whose name is Worf and she hugs him (awww). The seas turn rough, Worf is gone like he was never there, and one wall is suddenly missing. The daughter is considering if she could survive the swim to shore.

Context Explanations

Worf is a character from Star Trek: TNG, but he’s a Klingon not a dog.

Plot Holes

Putting your house out to sea to solve a problem is pretty illogical, but the part that really gets me is that they're vampires for no reason. It has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

Erection?

Peculiarly Yes

Analysis

I’m disturbed by the fact that my vision is getting worse as I get older, I pine for the simplicity of a life at sea, I want to hug Worf, and I think that making everyone a vampire can make any story interesting.

Auguries

The rough seas and the idea of swimming to shore mean that I will face hard times and need to make a difficult decision.