Some times I have some really random dreams that don't make a lot of sense as to why they occur. This one was kind of weird cause it's been a while since I've watched the tv show Alien: Earth or any of the movies related to it, but it reminded me of that one the most.
I've noticed I have this thing where if a dream is interesting enough, I try to maintain it and see it through, until I eventually wake up. I know some people say that you can dream many dreams during the night and that they may move way faster than "real time", but to me it kind of feels the opposite, that dreams kind of move slower than real time and I some times find myself going back to sleep only to get "further in the dream" just a little compared to the time that elapsed until I wake up again.
Either way, this one was quite interesting enough that it could've probably made a script of a tv show of some kind, naturally a lot more would need to be written around the plot or maybe changed some things that happened, but figured I'd write about that today as I'm trying to get back to my writing habits.
This was set out in the future at some point, I'm not really aware what the situation back on earth is as the dream starts out with 4-5 astronauts on a spaceship discovering new territories for research. It felt like it was kind of a hail mary situation where a lot of ships have been sent out in a last ditch to save humanity or earth in order to progress science a bit faster.
The dream went from your innocent star trek vibe into alien territory real quick.
This ship and its crew had found a "hidden" black hole that we didn't know about back on earth existed in this position, there were planets near it and it was a big one. Apparently it was full of "research material" for the crew and their equipment so they needed to get closer. After a few days there was proof that the equipment doing the research for them was dishing out things no one knew about. Here I imagine it was AI getting close to real data about black holes and science stuff it couldn't duplicate on earth.
Some of this research somehow lead to the research equipment teaching us how to manipulate dna in order to clone humans, kind of weird I thought while dreaming, why would we need that when we already have such a high population, but it was kind of like this was the precursor to the plot that was about to take shape. Apparently, being this close to the giant black hole was causing the crew to be exposed to high levels of radiation. After some checkups at the med bay they realized many of the crew members only had weeks left to live. They wouldn't be able to make the trip back to earth nor would they be able to get close enough to share the research they've gained since. A conundrum appeared.
After some discussions, the ideas floated that with the new research and some kind of process to speed things up, one of the only possibilities was that we'd clone ourselves in order to survive.
That's where things started to get quite weird, there were only two female astronauts on board and apparently they needed to, ehm, do their natural duties to help the process along by giving birth to embryos that would then be grown further in a lab towards teenage level while at the same time we had to try infuse basic knowledge onto them in their hybrid sleep/growth cycle to try and catch up to our knowledge and understanding of the situation and to be able to drive back to earth. At the same time we also wanted to keep researching the data while risking the new clones being exposed to radiation as well because it was just too important to ignore. Eventually we started doing the cloning process differently where it would generate clones of us at our current age but also a copy of our brains after we had gathered more research. This meant we were able to "renew" ourselves with all memory, knowledge, etc, while there were teenage versions of us on the ship and all of them were watching the first and oldest generation die to radiation poisoning.
Yeah, things got weird, lol.
I kind of woke up after a while and was like wtf was that, but it was so random and unique that it kind of got stuck in my mind so figured maybe I could write about it before someone steals the idea for a script and calls it original.
In China, there is a famous philosophical anecdote called “Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly.”
Roughly speaking, one day Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he had become a butterfly, fluttering freely and joyfully, completely forgetting that he was Zhuang Zhou. When he woke up, he clearly knew that he was Zhuang Zhou again. This led him to wonder:
was it Zhuang Zhou who dreamed he was a butterfly, or was it the butterfly dreaming that it was Zhuang Zhou?
So perhaps what happens in dreams is what is truly real.
And maybe right now, you are the one dreaming 😀
Heh yeah, there's many interpretations of that I suppose, multiverse, other dimensions, coma-state, etc. Or more realistic interpretations of the universe that we're just 3d projections of the real universe.
Oh well, it gave me something to write about at least, and if someone ever writes a similar script they turn into a movie I can be all "hey I have proof I created this first" lol.
lol that was a sci-fi movie rather than a dream 😂 maybe you have read some book recently or played a game similar? usually dreams are representations of what our brain is elaborating/worried/happy about
i never had such a dream, usually my dreams are of normal life, sometimes school, sometimes real life but never so complex lol... actually if i don't like the dream i just force myself to awake inside the dream itself, and i do it
ye that's what was weird cause haven't had any connection to something similar in a long time, last thing I can remember to be of similar genre is the alien franchise or the hail mary trailer I'm looking forward to watching the movie as the book was excellent.
yeah i usually just force myself to wake up when i feel a dream is turning into a nightmare, you always get that weird feeling before that happens so I like to avoid waking up in cold sweats xD
Then it's probably the movie you are looking for 😄 dreams always have a root
A good scream in the dream and you wake up! 😂
I do wish for dreams like that. I agree that it sounds like a movie script almost. YOu should flush it out some more and it could at least make for a good Sci-Fi book.
All I have are shit dreams or nightmares. Stuff I would rather forget for the most part.
I'm glad I've somehow found a way to avoid nightmares. I think it stems from a period in my life where I forced myself to become lucid, sadly it doesn't work as well anymore as I grew older but it helped me for a while with being able to control some things better, one of them being to "feel" when a dream is turning bad and to trigger myself to wake up. It sucks if that some times happens in the middle of the night and u don't wanna go back to sleep instantly as there's a high chance you get sent back right where you left off but most of the time it's at the end of your sleep anyway.
Dunno if you've ever tried that but there's some tricks to experience lucid dreaming even without the assistance of drugs. Would recommend to try at least as I dont think there's any downsides to it.
I am open to recommendations.
The thing that worked for me as a trigger is to make a habit of doing one of two things, either a, if you wear a watch, make a habit of looking at it often during the day, then you will eventually do it in your dreams and you'll notice the numbers are all off/weird and this may trigger you to realize that you're dreaming and become "aware" which gives you control of your decisions. The other which worked for me as I didn't wear a watch when i used to do this, is to just make it a habit to look at your hand often, then in your dream state your hand's gonna look all weird cause for some reasons dreams have a hard time making them realistic (maybe the same reason AI art sucks at it, dunno).
Lucid dreams are easiest to get into if you take naps, especially if you haven't had your first one happen yet.
I'd recommend just searching for some starter youtube vids as well that can teach you other ways if the above ones don't work, it's quite an experience. I found one just now that seems okay:
Apppreciate it. Thanks.
Honestly many times I've had dreams almost similar to this especially as it concerns alien invasion. Dreams I woke up not understanding the motivation behind it.
Hehe haven't had one about alien invasion yet but that'd certainly be frightening.
Noticed you're new to the platform btw, so sent you some RC so you can post and comment more often as I noticed you're running low, welcome!
I don't even remember what i dreamt of after waking up haha. It's kinda amazing that you could still remember and piece all this information together. Even if try i only get it as fragments and they just fade away within a few minutes once I lose interest.
There are dreams some times that I forget quickly or don't even think about at all when I wake up and they disappear from memory, but some times I guess they're interesting enough and "last" until I wake up or get interrupted from waking up that stay.
I remember one time I resumed a dream after returning to sleep. It was so weird xd. That rarely happens now though. I noticed that the more I'm thinking about something, chances are they'll pop up in my dream. Nightmares are even worse because i only wake up when something bad happens haha.
I wish I remembered my dreams that well. I also wish that I was able to pick back up where some dreams leave off. That's definitely an interesting plot you had going on there! I agree, dreams seem to take a lot longer. Things that drag out for days in dreams only take a few minutes when you wake up and realize what time it is.
Oh wow! Your dreams are VIVID @acidyo - that is sooo cool! Ben and I have recently re-watched Orphan Black, which is all about clones - a good watch if you've not seen it - and your dream made it come straight to mind.
I wonder if in another dream you will fall back into this story and see how it plays out. Stranger things have happened!
Annabelle 😊