Barrow-Down Dreams

[Thinlómien]

Far more interesting is how Legate ended up small and white and big-headed... :pWell, yes. I think he might have been bald too... :eek::D

[THE Ka]

I hope you are registered.. and indeed ..vaccinated!

Eep! Now I know next time if I play WW, I'll bring along my razors, clippers and angry dog grooming face. ;)

~ Ka

[Thinlómien]

I dreamt that I posted on the Ones to Marry (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=14529) -thread that I would marry either Gildor or Merry. Quite funny. My subconscious is obviously telling me things... and it's not making bad picks at all, I must say, (I like both of the characters very much), but I'm rather amused that they were those two, as I played Gildor in Legate's ww and will probably play Merry in the Would there ever be a possibility? -project... Is my subconscious implying that I'm enough for myself? Or that I'm way too self-centered? Or something else? :D

[THE Ka]

Is my subconscious implying that I'm enough for myself?

Well, there is no hurt in admitting you know yourself the best. Most people can't even brag about that (including m'self a bit :rolleyes:).

On an optional note, you might have set up quite a challenge to anyone who might fancying you, in that you only expect the best as yourself (which isn't bad at all! Everyone needs their own good set of standards), then why not them as well?
Though, I think that is the 'high' standard that all us of the female wit hold at one point or another. Without it the world would be in quite a mess. ;)


~ Ka

[Nogrod]

I finally had a BD dream!!!

(Well it was probably the second but anyway... :))

I had it clear in my mind in the morning but it sadly faded during the day.

Anyway there were myself and Lommy with Mac and Nerwen packed into boxes in an Aeroflot / Russian army flight in a huge transport airplane (size of a small city) going to Moscow. We were werewolves. That much I do remember. And it was both fun and exciting - not frightening.

I don't normally dream of Russia either... just to balance that. :D

You know Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" is translated in Finnish as "Satan arrives to Moscow"! :rolleyes:

[Nerwen]

I too just had my first Barrow Downs dream.

I was part of the crew on a Hollywood film, and Lommy and Greenie were involved somehow. They weren't in it... I think the company was using their house as either a location or a base of operations. It was full of equipment.

The main thing I remember is that everyone was talking about how cliched the plot was (a techno-thriller about hackers and conspiracies and stuff).

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

After a long wait I had another BD-Dream, or rather a downer made a cameo in one of my dreams. At times the dream was a bit confusing so I shall leave out bits that only confuses.

It all started with me sitting alone in a bus going to Berlin, for some reason I was very concerned that I might loose some of my lugage. Then for no apparent reason I am being chased and I have to stop a car in order to get away, I decide that the best way to do so is by throwing cookies at the car. of course I fail. (this part of the dream repeats it self, each time with a different cars and different objects such as: Oranges and umbrellas) I was eventually caught and brought to research facility where they tried to erase my memory and do other nasty tests on me, luckely they where not succesful and then I was left alone in a room.

After lying in the room for quite a while I spotted Lhuna talking to some of the evil people, eventually she spotted me as well and came into the room. She talked with me for a while gave me a small kiss on the cheek and then she helped me escape back to the bus for Berlin.

I arrived in Berlin, but of course they had lost some of my lugage. . .

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Whoa, doesn't this look like an outbreak of BD dreams? :eek:

Maybe it's a BDish-dreamly-favourable season or something...

I haven't had any for a long time though, sadly (?) ... :(

[Oddwen]

Whilst I was playing Werewolf, I was trying to "think like an innocent", even though I was a Werewolf. I must have done a good job, because one Night I dreamed that Legate was a mass-murderer.

[Lhunardawen]

Yep, Rune, that's me: a mad scientist pretending to be sweet and innocent. You caught me.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

This night, after a long time, I had a BD-dream: I was playing the DWII game and I was innocent. It was the first Day. The Barrow-downs were interestingly conciped: the threads were like a book, i.e. you had a thread page 2 on the left and page 3 on the right of the screen, as if you had an open book in front of you (page 1 was, of course, on the back side of page 2 ;) ). It was even that some long post on the bottom of page 2 continued on the top of page 3. Anyway, what was happening in the game: in second post from the top of page 2, Lommy quoted something I said and she said I am suspicious. I was quite sad and angered by that, and I thought "How stupid! How could she think that?" because I behaved normally, and I couldn't see what she could see as suspicious on me. However, then I thought "wait, don't look on her as on innocent - what if she is a wolf? There was a chance the EW picked her as one of three, that's a large chance - although in these numbers maybe not that big, but still..." But then I thought, she does not seem suspicious in any way, so I concluded that she is innocent.
Then, on the bottom of page 3 there was The Phantom's post, and besides the game stuff, it contained a lot of off-topic rant, concerning an online ladder game (Naruto Arena if anyone knows it) which The Phantom had been playing, and Oddwen was playing it too, and they knew about each other. It showed that THE Ka also played it, as she replied to that on the DW game thread, and they were discussing about climbing up the game ladder, and about challenging each other and having matches against each other. I started to wonder whether the discussion they had is not too much off-topic and that we were supposed to play WW here, but didn't say anything, and they merrily continued in discussing, and I think in the end many other Downers joined them (namely Hookbill and Gil-Galad, I think, and some others).

[Thinlómien]

Legate, I hope that is not a prediction of what will happen in the next game... *is somewhat worried* :D
Although, the first part could be from the previous game, couldn't it? ;)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Legate, I hope that is not a prediction of what will happen in the next game... *is somewhat worried*
Although, the first part could be from the previous game, couldn't it? ;)

Yes, I wondered about that too :rolleyes: ;)

[Groin Redbeard]

I had this dream about two days after I left with my family on vacation.


It starts where I am sitting on a hill underneath a large Oak Tree. I'm viewing a large valley covered with mounds (obviously the Barrow Downs). A large amount of people are having a party amongst the Barrows and all looks like its going fine. Suddenly I see a huge Bulldozer comes over the horizon with piosenniel (someone who looks like her avatar) in it! She gets out of the Bulldozer and unfurls a flag that says: "No more Signatures for the Downers! Ban them now!". Everyone laughs at her and starts to eat their pizza, but piosenniel gets into her Bulldozer and revs it up. She starts to destroy the Barrow Downs while chanting her slogan that's on her flag! Everyone flees in terror, but Hookbill scribbles some notes onto a piece of paper and just laughs.

I've never had a more complex dream than this!:eek:

[Oddwen]

That is tremendously amusing, Groin. :D

The other night, I had a dream that Nerwen told me that Diamond18 was dead. It was very realistic, as I was reading an obituary with her RL name in it...I remember musing on the futality of youth.

[Gwathagor]

See, this is what happens to addicts when they can't get their fix. Two days off the Barrow-Downs, and Groin starts going into withdrawal.

[Kath]

I had a BD-ish dream this morning, I can't remember a great deal of it though, it's fading away so fast!

I remember that I was in my old school hall and for some reason there was a competition where you had to write an article for the school newspaper. As we didn't have a school newspaper I'm assuming I was thinking of the 'Downer, plus the guy running the competition was a dalek in a top hat, which is how I currently think of Hookbill. :D

Anyway, the competitors consisted of me, a few RL friends, Lommy and Lhuna. Lhuna was really getting into it, taking charge and saying that if we all wrote something different we could make a newspaper between ourselves and overthrow Hookbill. Lommy and I weren't so keen, saying that we really couldn't be bothered to do it every week so where was the point? Lhuna got quite cross and went storming across the hall ...

... and that's it. That's all I remember. Except that in the middle of the dream Lhuna started a quiz based on TV shows and I won. Unsurprisingly given that the quiz was on English TV shows!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I had another dream featuring a Downer this night. I don't remember much of it, but the point was that I was in a place which looked like my grandparents' flat, along with several other people, including my grandparents, but most of them were just some - and I now don't know what - friends? Or just "countrymen"? And there was also Lommy, who was something like a ghost, and she was invisible to anyone but me. And now, some of these countrymen (?) were traitors of our country (or city?) and I was trying to expose them. And Lommy, since she was invisible, helped me a lot with it - for example she followed some of them when they had a secret meeting where no one else was allowed, and she could overhear their plans. And the outcome was, that I was pretending to the traitors that I want to join them, and together with Lommy (who suddenly had a form at that time, I think), we tried to convince them that it was us who built the Trojan horse and thus, made Troy fall. And again, Lommy was invisible and by giving me the information she overheard (the others not only couldn't see her, but not even hear her) she helped me to find the arguments to make the traitors hide inside a Trojan horse and the plan was, I think, to lock them inside the horse or something. I think the dream ended here, however it seemed that they fell for it.

Interesting, eh? I have no idea how I could come up with something that complicated.

[Thinlómien]

Seems like I've been busy lately, wandering from one dream to other. :D


Anyway, the competitors consisted of me, a few RL friends, Lommy and Lhuna. Lhuna was really getting into it, taking charge and saying that if we all wrote something different we could make a newspaper between ourselves and overthrow Hookbill. Lommy and I weren't so keen, saying that we really couldn't be bothered to do it every week so where was the point? Lhuna got quite cross and went storming across the hallHaha. Maybe, just to honour your dream, we three should write an article together to 'downer sometime? ;)

Legate - that is interesting for sure. You know, it almost looks like the plot summary of a novel or a short story - or a movie script. :D

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Legate, that sounds like a very bizarre episode of Randal and Hopkirk (deceased). :D

I had a VERY bizarre dream last night...

A friend and I were in London for no reason. We ended up going to Boris Johnson's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson)house (he's a national laughing stock and mayor of London) which doubled as an old people's home. He was trying to keep this secret from the press who were hanging around on his porch. In the house we met Rune who was trying to hide the old people in the attic. He explained that some people kept leaving bombs in Boris' letter box and it was amusing. My friend and I wandered around the house for a while (suddenly becoming Victorians for no reason*) until we discovered that Lommy and A little green were working for Boris as security guards and they were not too pleased to find us in the house.
Naturally we ran around for a while until we discovered a room full of wires. For no reason I can understand, we decided that Boris was up to something sinister and so we started pulling all the wires out of the wall and then ran away. Lommy and greenie were upset and tried to put the wires back.
All of a sudden, it was nighttime and there was a commotion outside; a riot had broken out. Apparently, we had accidentally cut all the power to London and people were not too happy. I remember a lot of fireworks going off and explosions near the house. Rune came back and said he knew of a secret exit... Which turned out to be a London Buss which drove through the wall and into the Themes... That's about where it ended...


* I suspect this has something to do with me watching a Victorian episode of Doctor Who before I went to sleep

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Legate, that sounds like a very bizarre episode of Randal and Hopkirk (deceased). :D

Oh yes, now thinking of it, it is quite similar. However I have watched Randal and Hopkirk only once, and it was quite some time ago.

And seeing your dream, it was indeed very bizarre... :D

[Lhunardawen]

Haha. Maybe, just to honour your dream, we three should write an article together to 'downer sometime? ;)
I have no problem with that. :D But you better stick to my plan or I'll be storming out. :p

[Kath]

I have no problem with that. But you better stick to my plan or I'll be storming out.
Ah but Lhuna it was so funny. You tossed your hair and swung your bag up and marched out with your nose in the air. :D

But sure, a three-authored article sounds fun. :D

[Lhunardawen]

That's freaky - that's exactly how I storm out! :D Well, except the bag thing, because I use shoulder bags. Say, that makes me look a bit like Hermione. :D

[Thinlómien]

So I wasn't featured in two but in three dreams last night? Scary... :D

Anyway, Hookbill, that's really amusing - I can't really imagine myself and Greenie as security guards :eek: :D, we'd be really poor at it...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I belive that it was actually Lommy and Greenie that left bombs the letter box

[Thinlómien]

I belive that it was actually Lommy and Greenie that left bombs the letter boxHmmm.... Might sound more plausible... :D ;)

[Meela]

Since yesterday was my first proper lurk on the Downs in over a year, it's only fitting that last night I dreamt about it.

I held a dinner party to celebrate the occasion, with all you lovely BDers as guests and a few sundry LotR characters thrown in. Only everybody was too wary of Denethor storming in at any moment to enjoy the party properly, and I had to assure them that he was safely locked away in his tower, happily occupied with some candles and matches (like a kid with building blocks, bless).

Unfortunately, my dream of being shacked up with Denethor in domestic, if flammable, bliss was then abruptly ended by a cat jumping on my pillow.

[Lhunardawen]

Welcome back, Meela! Apparently some things never change. :D Sorry about the unsatisfactory ending, but better that than barging in on an already burning Denethor, eh?

[Volo]

Among several as interesting, or evem more interesting, dreams I saw a rather BD dream last night.

I was a member of a basic fantasy group, knigts, mages, etc. After some random hanging around we entered the royal castle, which had been captured by the enemy. Oddly the castle was clean and empty. Random people I know somehow, mostly from school (Anssi N. who was a mix of himself and Patrick Wolf) walked down different passages of the castle and more kept coming. Then I understood it was a trap and that the people I thought familiar were actually the enemy. I shouted about the trap and suddenly seven from my group were circled by a band of those appearing people who turned out to be Nazgûl. The Nazgûl slowly circled around the captives and of them stabbed one at a time, killing them. Lommy, who was the in the circle couldn't stand it when it was Rune the Red Knight's turn to be killed and attacked the Nazgûl. The fight began.

I wasn't in the circle at the time, but joined in the fight with my Sting. I could pierce the Nazgûl, but not harm them. Soon, I was cornered by two and at the same time somebody else was cornered at the other end of the hall. I tossed Sting at the Nazgûl far away and hit his back stunning him and letting my friend escape. However I would have been killed myself had I not jumped at one of the two that cornered me and grabbed his weapon (all the Nazgûl had different weapons), a very long saw-like white sword that was loose like a whip. I managed to tear it out of the Nazgûl's grasp and as soon as I struck him with it, he died. I gathered that one could kill a Nazgûl with his own weapon. So I fought the second Nazgûl harrassing me. He had a red long sword. Luckily I couldn't harm myself or my friends with my whip-sword, so with some ease I got hold of the red sword and killed the Nazgûl.

I went to the place where I had stunned the Nazûl with Sting. There, in a small room, three Nazgûl in their human form sat around a table with one more person and two of them played chess. I asked "Who's next?" One of the chess-players rose to come out but I said that maybe the one who isn't playing chess at the moment should be first. "Yeah, sure", the Nazgûl agreed and returned to his game. The one who hadn't been playing chess turned out to be Aganzir in a cloak and her weapon was a staff like Gandalf the Grey's. She seemed to be quite tired of her life but showed more effort than I imagined. In the end I stabber her with her own staff. By then, I remember, I couldn't decide on which of the three weapons I should still carry and how.


Blah, since I'm in the mood, I'll write down the other dream I remember.

In one I was living on a hill and being the village mage. First I messed around with my brothers and neigbours. Then two villagers decided to become thieves and everybody started chasing them, but I kept secretly casting Slow and other stat-lowering spells at my fellow villagers and Haste at the criminals who were trying to run away. I did have to hit the thieves with my sword several times to be believable. After running through the village and through a passage the thieves ran over the border of the village and escaped into a metro station. The other villagers including me couldn't get through the station gates, because our law worked only inside the borders of the village. Then I started casting Cure Light/Moderate Wounds of the villagers.

After that I was invited into the office of the village boss. She asked me in Russian to do a psychological test. I had to mark with a marker which of twenty objects I liked. Four or five first were different levels of liking some popular action film. I marked something that looked like a Soviet film collection DVD. The rest were different dishes. Most looked tasty and smelled good but they all contained meat. The boss was most surprised when I told her that if I wasn't a vegetarian I'd have marked some of the dishes. She asked me if I didn't eat meat at all and why. I was proud to tell her yes and because of ethical reasons.

[Thinlómien]

How valiant of me to defend Rune. :D

But actually, I did have an epic dream too. Unfortunately, I can remember little of it. I was in some parallel world and couldn't get back to the normal world. The parallel wolrd was interesting, but scary. There were small candlelit chapels visited by courtesans, cruel knights harassing townsfolk, a beautiful sad queen with night-black hair and a golden bird as a pet, secret caves under sea and behind waterfalls. Some secret police were looking for me, but fortunately Volo helped me to hide. That was quite strange, as his mum was one of the secret police. I'm rather sure MatthewM and Legate had something to do with it too, but I can't remember what.

I had a less epic BD dream as well. In it, Eönwë changed his screen name to "Father of the Skies" or something like that and then William Cloud Hicklin and Galin made fun of it on some Books thread.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Whoa! These were both very interesting dreams. It's amazing that you had such a long and still very complex dream, Volo. And Lommy, it's interesting what kinds of details you remember about the world - although, thinking of it, that's just the type of things one usually remembers. But pretty complex, again - a fantasy writer probably would have to put more effort to creating such a world :)

I had also a BD dream this night, however I decided that it's not much worth posting it, as I don't remember it well - one usually forgets most of the things unless he immediately reflects and writes them down when he wakes up...

[Eönwë]

I had a less epic BD dream as well. In it, Eönwë changed his screen name to "Father of the Skies" or something like that and then William Cloud Hicklin and Galin made fun of it on some Books thread.


Maybe I will make my title that when (and if) I get one, just because of that.

[Volo]

Some secret police were looking for me, but fortunately Volo helped me to hide. That was quite strange, as his mum was one of the secret police.
How very wierd. :S But good that I was of some use for once. :D Your dream sounds most interesting!

Another dream from last night was me being some secret (so secret that even I myself was only guessing) private detective and my job was to look after a band of dancers participating in some kind of competition. We stayed in three gigantic different coloured balloons inside a cave for the time because of being so famous. There was a great big tower in the cave, a bit like Barad-dûr and the balloons were beside it. I got to see the dance and it was utterly terrible (I was asked to take part in the training and tried doing after another dancer.). The leader of the group who had planned the dance was quite old and nasty and deffinitely didn't like me. In the end I found out that she had become crazy, hence the bad dance, and that there was a bigger mystery behind all that.

[Gwathagor]

Maybe I will make my title that when (and if) I get one, just because of that.

DOOO ITTT.

[Aganzir]

Haha, Volo. Though to be honest I can't see you beating me in a duel. :p
But it's quite funny to see that now I've finally joined the Nazgûl, as I've had three or so times a dream I was fighting them (and once that I was going to give birth to a child of a Nazgûl). Maybe it has something to do with the WW you modded recently.

[Eönwë]

Well, I had an odd dream last night but its fading.

All I remember is that littlemanpoet turned into his rpg character (Eodwine), then pretended to be my father, and started killing all the Downers in vicious ways, and was exposed as a crazy mass-murderer. And Bethberry was in it somewhere... but I'm not sure how she fitted in.

[Groin Redbeard]

It sounds like you have been reading too much of the Downer, Eonwe!:D

[Eönwë]

It sounds like you have been reading too much of the Downer, Eonwe!:D

Maybe *shifty eyes*

[Volo]

Maybe *shifty eyes*

There is never too much of the Downer, there are only too many cares.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I had another one of those "Kind-of-bd-dreams"

I was in the courtyard of my old school (Christianshavns Gymnasium) and pretty much minding my own buisness, as I walked around I noticed a few people that I recognised: Some of my old class-mates where there without talking to anybody and in the middle of the courtyard some Manchester United players where sitting on some garden funiture.

I stopped and looked for a while at the Man U players and as I did Roger Federer walks up to them and starts calling them names (he is especially mean to Gary Neville), the baffled Man U players just stares at him in disbelif. After some time I decide that I have seen enough and walk over to some garden funiture and start writting some very good poetry on it. but I am stopped by Fea. Sure she does not look like Fea. . . .not unless Fea have gained 50 kg and walks around in pink tracksuits, but I know it is Fea.
She tells me that I have already sent her these poems in an e-mail and so there is absolutely no reason for me to write them on the garden chair.

I appologise and walk towards a door, this door disapear just as I reach it and then I wake up.

[Eönwë]

I had another Barrow-Downs dream last night, but its already fading:

I was fighting orcs alongside Gwathagor and shaggydog (sort of reminds me of the Golden Perch Inn), and they had amazing swords, andd I just had a pitchfork. And then I realised that I was actually Boromir, and that I did have a sword, and it just appeared. And then I walked down some marble stairs and realised that I was in front of Minas Tirith, about to fight in the Pelennor fields. So us three hid underneath some seige machinery, but then we realised it would collapse on us so went forwards to fight. Then we ended up joining a battalion of around 200 warriors. And all the orcs spat us and teased us and jabbed their swords at us (we were only about 10m away) Then, our general brought out a wagon full of spears (which were in the shape of muskets for some reason) and we each picked two spears and got ready charge.
I lifted up my spear, ready to ram it into the head of a nearby orc, when, when the spear was just millimetres away, I woke up.

[Aganzir]

I had a dream Folwren and I called Tolkien up from the dead. He didn't remember a thing of his previous life, so we sat down and told him everything we knew - Edith, war, his children, the mythology. The atmosphere was very solemn, and he was a sympathetic old man. Then he turned into a crimson rhino.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Then he turned into a crimson rhino.

... Of course... :confused:

[Eönwë]

What, Hookbill, that's the usual procedure.

[Gwathagor]

I had a dream Folwren and I called Tolkien up from the dead. He didn't remember a thing of his previous life, so we sat down and told him everything we knew - Edith, war, his children, the mythology. The atmosphere was very solemn, and he was a sympathetic old man. Then he turned into a crimson rhino.

Whenever I dream about Tolkien, he's grumpy, slightly deaf, and looks like my Native American grandfather.

[Groin Redbeard]

Poor Tolkien, if he could only see us talking about him like this.:(

[Volo]

In the dream last night I was at some friend's party in a big empty clean living room somewhere high up (either somekind of big ship or a flying machine, in either case over the sea). Rune sat on a sofa in the room in front of the TV, which he wasn't watching. I went to chat with him. I said loads of nonsense and Rune was shy or uninterested. Finally I asked him how to pronounce his name. The friend whose party it was said one version, after that Rune told the real one. I tried it and finally decided that I'd rather just call him "Rune" and not "Hryyne".
Then we were flying outside over the sea. I was surprised when I suddenly saw a great big white flying craft in the air. It had four or so gigantic propellers, but they were moving very slowly. I turned my head and saw more of these beautiful craft. I gasp and say, "Wow, now this is scifi!" Rune answers calmly, "Well, yes, one does see these over Denmark". I nearly bump into a propeller of one as I gather speed.
We crash into a station of such aircraft and armed guards come to arrest us. We start running away and the guards decide to shoot. I try forming a protecting bubble around us, but the bullets pierce them and hit me. Luckily I cast Heal and am fine. Rune suddenly loses his ability to fly and I have to carry him. He also gets hit but I heal him.

I'm really amused how everybody is so calm in my dreams even if cast spells and do such unnatural things.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Volo, haven't you been playing too much of Icewind Dale, or simply something D&Dish with flying ships in it? ;) :D

[Volo]

Volo, haven't you been playing too much of Icewind Dale, or simply something D&Dish with flying ships in it? ;) :D
Odd thing is that none at all. I'm fond of flying stuff, but the only thing related to such machines I did was to skim through British Airlines themed playing cards sometime last week.

[Eönwë]

I had a dream last night (so over 15 hous ago, so I forget) which was more related to the forum than anything else.

In it Aiwendil, for some reason, in his personal profile, had found proof that balrogs existed. And when he ran out of space, he gave links to web pages that he had filled with pages and pages of writing, claiming that he had proved that balrogs had wings.

[Volo]

I just remembered that I had a dream where I went for a surprise visit to Kath's place. Also I, Rune and some others were in some very spooky house full of odd obsticles, like climbing a very high bookshelf and crawling on an inlined and slippery piece of board. The dream was mildly distressing. It was dark and gloomy, and more twisted than my dreams on average. I can't remember the details though.

[Kath]

I just remembered that I had a dream where I went for a surprise visit to Kath's place.
Hah! Well you're quite welcome to do so, though not on a Sunday at the moment as I won't be there. :p :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

In the dream last night I was at some friend's party in a big empty clean living room somewhere high up (either somekind of big ship or a flying machine, in either case over the sea). Rune sat on a sofa in the room in front of the TV, which he wasn't watching. I went to chat with him. I said loads of nonsense and Rune was shy or uninterested. Finally I asked him how to pronounce his name. The friend whose party it was said one version, after that Rune told the real one. I tried it and finally decided that I'd rather just call him "Rune" and not "Hryyne".
Then we were flying outside over the sea. I was surprised when I suddenly saw a great big white flying craft in the air. It had four or so gigantic propellers, but they were moving very slowly. I turned my head and saw more of these beautiful craft. I gasp and say, "Wow, now this is scifi!" Rune answers calmly, "Well, yes, one does see these over Denmark. I nearly bump into a propeller of one as I gather speed.
We crash into a station of such aircraft and armed guards come to arrest us. We start running away and the guards decide to shoot. I try forming a protecting bubble around us, but the bullets pierce them and hit me. Luckily I cast Heal and am fine. Rune suddenly loses his ability to fly and I have to carry him. He also gets hit but I heal him.

I'm really amused how everybody is so calm in my dreams even if cast spells and do such unnatural things.
that is a bit twisted

[Diamond18]

I dreamed last night that I was trying to move into Diamond18's house and get rid of her cats without her noticing, before Rune reached it on his raft. Volo kept trying to give me away. :(

Oh wow. I can't believe I haven't read about this until now.

*hugs cats protectively*

[Aganzir]

I had a dream Lhuna and Nerwen came to Finland and participated in an RPG campaign of ours that was run by Nogrod (really such campaign doesn't exist). Lhuna lived at my place and Nerwen at Nog's. It was their last day in Finland, yet Lhuna and I just sat in my room. I was mostly hanging on the Downs and she was talking to me. We wondered if we had time to finish the campaign anymore, as it was quite late in the evening already (9 pm I think) and we should have gone to Nog's to play.

"I wonder what they are doing right now," said Lhuna.
I remembered talking to Lommy about her summer plans (in RL) a long time ago, and she had said she will play werewolf, and when she's not playing she will sit with Greenie on Nog's sofa doing nothing (ok, she said also other things, but that was all that matters). An image of Nerwen sitting bored on the sofa with them popped into my mind.

Also, we posted the main synopsis of the campaign onto the Downs. All I remember is that my character's name was Kamparauskukampela, which means something like... comb-ray-flounder.

I think in the same dream we also discovered that Morthoron was really a woman.

[Lhunardawen]

Warning: Playing Werewolf is dangerous to your mental health.

I read the first few words of Agan's post and thought, "Why is she revealing her dream? Wait, wasn't Nerwen just lynched?" :rolleyes: :D

Yay, I get to go to Finland - if only in someone's dream. Thanks, Agan!

[satansaloser2005]

Oh, I mentioned it on the game thread, but I remember who I dreamt about now.

I had a dream that Volo and....well, it was one of the Finn girls....sorry ladies, I can't remember which of you it was (probably Agan, but could have been Greenie or Lommie)....anyway they kept scrying me back and forth and eventually I got sick of it and told them to shove off and scry Legate or Phantom for a change. Random, I know.

[A Little Green]

Nice one, Sally :D

Last night I had a most amusing dream.

Some downers had come to Finland for a visit. I sat on our balcony with Lommy and possibly some other people I don't recall. The lower floor balcony was somehow bigger than ours so that I could spy what was going on in there. Sally and Legate stood there chatting but I couldn't hear what they said. Then Sally for some reason poked Legate. He answered by kissing her. I started laughing very loudly, which made Lommy and the others wonder what I was laughing at and Legate and Sally wonder where the noise came from.

Then Legate was leaving (somehow he was in our flat now and not the one below it...) and I had to show him the way out (again quite weird since our flat is really quite small and extremely difficult to get lost in). I spoke Finnish to him though I didn't think he could quite understand everything I said. It wasn't out of nastiness, it was just that I didn't think there to be an option to speaking Finnish. The only Finnish word Legate knew was "terve" which is a sort of greeting that is not used very often because it sounds kind of silly. So he said "terve" and left.

I woke up smiling.

[Aganzir]

Yay, I get to go to Finland - if only in someone's dream. Thanks, Agan!
You're welcome. And guess what - last night you did it again. :D

In the dream I was in a library near my home, and it was almost closing time. Suddenly I noticed you. You were sitting on a sofa wearing a light pink suit and a hat that reminded me of Jackie Kennedy.
"Hey Lhuna, what are you doing here?" I asked.
"I'm waiting for A Little Green. She promised to take me to Linnanmäki (an amusement park in Helsinki), and her school hasn't ended yet."
I wondered why Lhuna was waiting for her almost on the other side of Helsinki.
"Is Hanni coming with you, too?" I asked then.
"Who is Hanni?" asked Lhuna.
I was surprised she didn't know Lommy's name although they are friends on Facebook and all.

**

Haha sally. That must have been amusing. :D

The only Finnish word Legate knew was "terve" which is a sort of greeting that is not used very often because it sounds kind of silly. So he said "terve" and left.
No it doesn't! And I use it all the time! :p
Anyway I laughed at your dream quite a lot.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Then Legate was leaving (somehow he was in our flat now and not the one below it...) and I had to show him the way out (again quite weird since our flat is really quite small and extremely difficult to get lost in).

Apparently you don't know me yet :D

Anyway, how do people come up with these dreams...

[satansaloser2005]

Nice one, Sally

Last night I had a most amusing dream.

Some downers had come to Finland for a visit. I sat on our balcony with Lommy and possibly some other people I don't recall. The lower floor balcony was somehow bigger than ours so that I could spy what was going on in there. Sally and Legate stood there chatting but I couldn't hear what they said. Then Sally for some reason poked Legate. He answered by kissing her. I started laughing very loudly, which made Lommy and the others wonder what I was laughing at and Legate and Sally wonder where the noise came from.

Then Legate was leaving (somehow he was in our flat now and not the one below it...) and I had to show him the way out (again quite weird since our flat is really quite small and extremely difficult to get lost in). I spoke Finnish to him though I didn't think he could quite understand everything I said. It wasn't out of nastiness, it was just that I didn't think there to be an option to speaking Finnish. The only Finnish word Legate knew was "terve" which is a sort of greeting that is not used very often because it sounds kind of silly. So he said "terve" and left.

I woke up smiling.



*backs away slowly* :rolleyes:

Are you sure it wasn't I that got lost in your apartment? Because....well, I'm uber-directionally challenged. Like, a lot....:confused::D

[Nerwen]

Warning: Playing Werewolf is dangerous to your mental health.

I read the first few words of Agan's post and thought, "Why is she revealing her dream? Wait, wasn't Nerwen just lynched?" :rolleyes: :D

In a similar vein, I have been known to do a a momentary double-take when I see a recently killed player's name on another thread: "How can so-and-so be posting in the Books forum? She's dead!"

I wonder when the media is going to discover WW, the Game That Drives People INSAAAANE!

–The Late Nerwen.

[Lhunardawen]

Sally and Legate stood there chatting but I couldn't hear what they said. Then Sally for some reason poked Legate. He answered by kissing her. I started laughing very loudly, which made Lommy and the others wonder what I was laughing at and Legate and Sally wonder where the noise came from.
*Lhuny joins Lily in laughing very loudly*

Wow, Agan. I wonder what I did to become the girl of your (recent) dreams. :D And oh my...you mean that Hanni person is actually Lommy? :p

Apparently you don't know me yet
Are you sure it wasn't I that got lost in your apartment? Because....well, I'm uber-directionally challenged. Like, a lot....
We three should start a support group or something.

In a similar vein, I have been known to do a a momentary double-take when I see a recently killed player's name on another thread: "How can so-and-so be posting in the Books forum? She's dead!"

I wonder when the media is going to discover WW, the Game That Drives People INSAAAANE!

–The Late Nerwen.
Why are you posting? You're supposed to be dead!

Oh, wait. Yeah. We're all dead here.

[Gwathagor]

I definitely had an actual BD dream last night, but all I remember of it is that the RPG wasn't going fast enough for LMP's tastes, so every day or two he move it ahead by about a fortnight. Then he would tell us to post faster in the discussion thread. It was funny. There was a lot more, but that's all that I can remember.

[Volo]

And oh my...you mean that Hanni person is actually Lommy? :p
What!! :O I thought it was some bearded ugly dirty middle aged man stalking me... oops.

[Lhunardawen]

I am positive I dreamt of Anguirel last night. I woke up shortly after it and ran through the dream once more in my head to make sure I remember it for posting. But then I fell asleep again, and had another dream (which wasn't Downs-related), so my Ang dream is now sadly forgotten. :(

I think it had something to do with him and Form being twins. :D

[satansaloser2005]

This is based partially on Greenie's previous post by the way. Well, a bit.



I fell asleep last night working on analyses on Legate and Lallie (rather, reading through their posts so I COULD do analyses). I dreamt that Lallie was sitting on the edge of my couch telling me to wake up and post (which entails driving downtown where I can pick up wireless). For some reason, it was Lallie's avvie (the mouse from The Rescuers) which I thought was a little weird, but yeah, I went back to sleep, still thinking that I should go work on posts but too stinking tired.

Then Agan started laughing at me and saying that I would get lynched if I didn't post something in the next ten minutes, to which I replied something along the lines of "Shove off, wolf girl", at which point Legate shows up and starts poking me. And poking me. And poking me. Greenie started giggling and I said "if you expect me to kiss him, you're crazy" (no offense Legate. I'm cranky when I'm tired hehe) but he didn't stop flipping poking me. So I got up (like seriously put on shoes and grabbed my glasses and everything) and started toward the door. Then I realized I'd been dreaming. *facepalms herself*

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

OH MY! What's that???

Well Sally, no problem, but it is really bad when someone starts to have Downish dreams based on another one's Downish dreams! :eek: Sort of a crazy collective subconscious.

[A Little Green]

Whoa, Sally - never knew my dream would affect someone else's... :eek: :D

[Thinlómien]

Sally - that's awesomely crazy! :D

Anyway, after a pause of sorts I've been haunted by BD dreams lately.


The night before last night I had one of these my slightly dark and slightly twisted BD dreams.

Many 'downers lived together in a big house. The building's interior looked very much like that of my school. It was very late at night and I was wandering in the corridors. I thought everybody was asleep until I heard typing noise and saw a light in the library of the second floor. I went there and saw Rune sitting there, looking very worried.
"What is it now?" I asked.
"Legate has disappeared," he replied. "He's been gone for many hours and no one knows where he is. I'm afraid he has commited suicide."
"Oh no, surely he hasn't. Maybe we should try to find his original house with Google Earth. Then we could find out the phone number to his home and call his mum and ask if he's went back there."
We didn't reject or accept my plan, but went to look for Legate in the corridors. Rune stayed on the second floor (I'm pretty sure he met Lhuna there) but I went to the third floor. In the stairs I met Agan. She was dressed in a black dress and looked even paler than normal in the moonlight.
"What are you doing here at this time of the night?" she asked me.
"Rune and I are looking for Legate. Rune fears he has killed himself," I replied.
"He hasn't. He's safe and sound. You will find him eventually," she said very calmly. I realised she must know, for she was a time traveler and could have gone to the future and seen him there, alive.
"That's good to hear. Will you now help us find him? You must know where he is."
"I'm sorry," Agan said, smiling sadly. "But I'm not allowed to tell." Then she turned and walked away.


Then, last night, I had many short (and weird) BD dreams.

I was talking with Agan in MSN. Without warning, she changed her username to "Legate". When that didn't confuse me enough, she changed it to "Rune". When that didn't work either, she changed it so that the program displayed Oddwen's MSN address instead of hers. That, I must admit, baffled me so much that I had to check if I was talking with Agan or Oddie.

I'm not sure if it was supposed to be the same MSN discussion, or if it was another, but anyway, I was talking with Agan in MSN. She talked something about Nilp. She said that he was in a wheelchair and that he had been engaged to some girl since he was two years old. Then she went on to ramble about organised marriages being a total folly, and I just kept thinking: "Nilp has a wheelchair? Why didn't I know?"

Once again, I was talking with Agan, this time face-to-face. "I have a brilliant idea", she said. "Volo has agreed to help me here. Listen: we are going to invite various 'downers here and take them to UFF [a Nordic second hand chain] and make them select clothes. Then we will pair them up or make them kill one another or something else as funny. Doesn't that sound great?"
I was quite shocked. "You do... what?"
Agan looked me as if I was an idiot. "Must I repeat? We give them barbies and got to UFF and make them select clothes for their barbies. Then we pair up the Barbies, or murder them ww style, or something else nice. Kath will be our first guest."
I was relieved. "So you don't pair up or murder the 'downers themselves?"
She rolled her eyes. "Of course not. Silly."

Then, lastly I dreamt that my aunt had joined BD and Agan's dad had a crush on her (my aunt not Agan).

[Aganzir]

Then, lastly I dreamt that my aunt had joined BD and Agan's dad had a crush on her (my aunt not Agan).
Now this is interesting. Because, you know, I once had a dream that your father had a crush on her. ;)

[Volo]

Not only did I think about the current WW game all the time I was trying to sleep while awake, alseep, half-awake (pessimist)... but I saw another weird (just now realized that it's "weird" and not "wierd" which is very illogical, but then again, things are) WW dream.

At first I was talking with my Finnish teacher on messenger or on some other chat thing. We didn't know that we were talking to each other before she mentioned Ukraine as a place she might go to. I became interested because that's where I'm from. I walked down into our kitchen to make myself some tea. Then I see that the teacher is there. We talk about how I have problems with writing correctly and that it might be because the internet language is distorded. Her voice was very hoarse.
Then I went to play WW on somebody else's computer, because mine was for some reason taken. I was too lazy to post anything - the keyboard wasn't my own and I wasn't used to it. So I went to get more tea. The teacher was still there and asked me if I was in Noggie's game. "I think you are", she said. I was completely confused, why would by Finnish teacher know anything about WW. I told her that I am in it. "So am I". Her nickname was something that started with "Aj", but I decided that I didn't need to know the rest, since there aren't many Aj-s on the Downs.

[Diamond18]

Last night I dreamt that Rune lived across town and so came over to watch some television. I met him at a boat dock (apparently, in my dreams, we live in Venice) and he said that someone had jumped off the boat into the canal and committed suicide on the way over. Exciting.

We then tried to decide what to watch on TV -- Rune read the paper aloud and I said I wanted to watch a cooking show about making cookies but he thought that sounded boring. But everything on was really boring and he didn't know what he actually wanted to watch. This suddenly became a moot point when the electrical cords and cables inside the wall caught fire. I got a knife and we cut a hole in the wall and then severed the big bundle of cords, and inspected the ends to see if they were still flaming. Satisfied that they were not, I tried to crawl into the wall to duct tape everything back together so we could watch TV. Rune suggested we make the hole bigger to make it easier, but I was worried about my landlords being upset if the hole got to too big. He went ahead and did it anyway, but I found that getting the cords back together was hopeless. So I decided we should just take the TV out and dump it in the water.

Bad subconscious!

You know even when I've been more active on the BD, I rarely ever have BD dreams. Probably because I usually only dream about people I've met in RL.

[Brinniel]

I had a dream that I woke up to discover that another five pages of WW had developed while I slept. Much to amazement, in reality the WW game only gained one page overnight.

Strange how my BD dreams all seem to be rather boring. :rolleyes: I promise I do dream up wacked out stuff, it's just never BD related...

[satansaloser2005]

OH MY! What's that???

Well Sally, no problem, but it is really bad when someone starts to have Downish dreams based on another one's Downish dreams! :eek: Sort of a crazy collective subconscious.

....And ain't it wonderful! :)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When I finished reading Hookbill's exciting story on the Downer thread, I was sure that I was going to have dreams of a goomba running around with little barrow wights and running away from werewolves, but no... I had a dream about something else instead... I can't even remember it... But if I have a Barrow-Downs dream tonight (fingers crossed) then I will surely write about it!

[Oddwen]

Last night I dreamed I wrote and performed a handful of Harry Potter comedic sketches for the benefit of Volo and TGWBS. They were very blase about it.

I'm sure the HP sketches must have been about how inferior it was to LotR... :rolleyes:

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I had a dream about a PM.

It was a PM from Sally.

In it was a lecture on the differences in the modes of Ëalarin incarnation (Melkor/Morgoth, Ungoliant, Melian, the Istari vis-à-vis the banal Valar/Maiar).

It was lengthy.

It was weird.

O, where is my Silmarillion?

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had this dream the other night that started out like any other bizarre and non-BD like dream. It was something about a bunch of kids my age and I were going to some weird place that was like school or something... But then I was all of a sudden on a car trip and my and the other people in my car were going up to visit Hookbill the Goomba at his house! Apparently we had done this before, because we knew the way and I think we were talking about the last time we went, I don't remember the conversation... But when we turned on a bend on the road there was a road block, and the road to his house (which was really a white mansion) was next to the ocean... we had to take a boat. Apparently we really wanted to go. When we got there, we went to the back of the house and Hookbill was showing me the layout of the hillside. After that (I don't know why) but we had to leave... I think something was after us. Anyway, we left and that is where my dream faded away...:(

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I had a short and slightly odd dream and so I better write it down before I forget again.

There was to be a race to decide which was cooler: Sumer or Babylon and for some reason I was running in it, the odd thing was that I was representing Ur. . .to me it make some, but not much sense that Ur should be represented.
Anyways just as the race was about to begin Lhuna appears on horseback and rides across the track and stops the race, she then rides of into the sunset, but before she disapears she looks back and give us all a real winning movie smile.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

But then I was all of a sudden on a car trip and the other people and I in my car were going up to visit Hookbill the Goomba at his house ... (which was really a white mansion) next to the ocean...

I am English... Therefore I live in a mansion, wear a top hat and drink tea ALL DAY. It's nice to know I challenge the usual stereotypes. ;)

There was to be a race to decide which was cooler: Sumer or Babylon

Sumer, obviously. Gilgamesh is such a funny word. :D
Weird dream, Rune. Of course, anyone on horseback simply must ride into the sunset.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Interesting, Rune. What might have possibly caused you dreaming about Sumer or Babylon?

Sumer, obviously. Gilgamesh is such a funny word. :D

What's wrong with Gil-Gamesh? Or was it actually someone like Grishnákh... I can never decide on this one :) (his friends were the Uruk-hai, after all)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I am English... Therefore I live in a mansion, wear a top hat and drink tea ALL DAY. It's nice to know I challenge the usual stereotypes. ;)
I want to drink tea all day too! Out of my fanciful fine china... And I didn't think that all Brits live in mansions and drink tea all day!:rolleyes:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Interesting, Rune. What might have possibly caused you dreaming about Sumer or Babylon?


Well, I do study history. . .and for my exam in macro-history one of the questions was something like this "Great empires often had great influence on agrarian societies, give some examples."

At first I miss read it, so I thought it said "great civilisations" and so I thought Sumer would be a good choise, but I realised my mistake and wrote about Babylon and The Roman Empire instead.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had this really freaky dream last night. It started with my cousin driving their van and it all of a sudden turned into a rocket ship, we then went to another planet. I thought, wouldn't it be great if I met a Downer... I did apparently... I met this person that looked like Brinniel's avatar. She said that she was a mod, but she didn't say which one... I went into a restaurant and there was this sign in the front and it said "The Barrow-Wight Himself lives here" And we ate there. Then we had to leave and we couldn't because we were their prisoners! When we were in that mess, I woke up... Thank God.

[Lhunardawen]

(Two Downs-less, relatively sleep-deprived nights, two BD dreams.)

Night 1:
A BDer cameo-ed in my dream!

It was about my family. The time was very early in the morning, perhaps around 4 AM. I was awakened by the sounds of my mum preparing to leave, I think for abroad. While we were in their bedroom and she went about making sure she had everything she needed, she warned me about haunting spirits around our house disturbing her and dad's sleep. I expressed some relief about being a heavy sleeper. And just then, Leggie passed by outside the room, almost gliding, rubbing his eyes and looking very sleepy. And then he never appeared again, until I woke up shortly afterwards.

I remember my dream self being very surprised to see him, but I am more surprised (and was, even while I was dreaming) that I didn't run after him and ask what he was doing in my subconscious.

Night 2:
All I can remember is that I was talking to RL people about the Pokey Stick of Doom.

I think you're witnessing a serious case of Downs withdrawal.

[Oddwen]

And then he never appeared again, until I woke up shortly afterwards.

Until...after you woke up? Is there more to this that we should know about? ;)

[THE Ka]

I can't remember exactly all the Downers that pop'ed into my dreams last night, but it was definately BD related, in a werewolf sense.

Majorly what I remember is that there was suddenly an overpopulation of cyotes where I live, so for the most part people kept their animals, etc. inside during the evening and night. Then the cyotes started to dwindle because something was killing them off and people began to disappear. Then the dream sped up and for the most part I couldn't leave my house because a bunch of werewolves camped out on my front lawn. Then the next night more werewolves showed up for some sort of party, but a few Downers came too and were able to pass by the wolves with no problem, and ring my doorbell.
I didn't let anyone in until Lhuna and Rune showed up and explained that they thought I was throwing a party and that they had food with them. After saying this the werewolves started eyeing everyone so I gave in and let other Downers in.
I explained that the wolves were the ones having a party, and that they probably had been invited over to be dinner. The only other thing I remember is other Downers started throwing food out my windows at the wolves, and I was trying to stop them so they wouldn't settle down at my house.

I had another dream that was a lot shorter, but I was visiting Lommy and Agan and we ran out of bread or something so I offered to go buy some more. A Little Green came by and warned me that one of the bakers was a werewolf, but she didn't know which one. I ended up going out for bread anyways, and noticed that there was three bakeries right next to one another and stood there trying to decide which one to go into.
For the most part I figured I'd be okay since it was the middle of the day so I chose the left bakery at random. There was a long line, but I waited anyways until after a half-hour I decided that I'd find bread somewhere else. Then werewolves ran out of the back of the store and started ripping people apart, so I ran out after it became a bit messy and graphic.
I ended up being covered in blood anyways, so I just went into the next shop which ended up being run by vampires who shook their heads and one said,
"That's why you don't buy bread from werewolves."


I think the second was my favourite, just for the closure.

~ Ka

[Nerwen]

I think the second was my favourite, just for the closure.

Mine too. :D You have an hilarious subconscious, Ka.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I haven't been posting my dreams lately... But Hookbill has been in two thirds of my dreams of the last three nights...

Dream 1: Sally came into my dream the first night and was really mad at me for some reason, I have no idea why. My dream basically consisted of her being mad at me and trying to kill me... It was really scary!

Dream 2: Hookbill was a tour guide somewhere and I was on his tour, Hookbill was showing me all of these landmarks...

Dream 3: Last nights dream was really weird, probably because I watched Doctor Who last night. But anyway, My cousin and I were in a predicament and I don't know why... All of a sudden Hookbill the Goomba showed up and was saving us from a bunch of dieleks (I probably didn't spell that correctly). I can't remember much more of the dream and plus I woke up in a very crazy spot. But still, it was very weird...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Daleks.

Incidentally, I think I would make a dreadful tour guide. Too many colours and events. :p

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Thank you, Hookbill for the spelling tip! But you must not have a good memory then?

Oh and Hookbill, you should stop controlling my mind! I keep on dreaming and you keep on being there... I'm blaming this on you.

[Aganzir]

Ka, that's hilarious. :D Especially the second one.

Last night I had a dream a werewolf had just ended, and I was talking to Lommy.

"I'm busy, there's so much I should do," she complained. "For one, I should neg-rep all the players."
"Neg-rep? Don't you usually just rep them?"
"Well yes, but this time they all played so badly. The game was really quiet and they had bad cases against one another."
"But still, isn't that a bit mean?"
"I can always pretend I intended to rep them. If I write there positive things, they will think I accidentally hit the 'I disapprove' button, and won't be angry with me."

I thought Lommy's plan wasn't good, but didn't try to stop her, either. In the end she neg-repped at least Boro, phantom and Menel.

[Oddwen]

I dreamed last night that Legate released a musical album in the 'States. I never got around to listening to it, because I was trying to read the horrible handwriting in the liner notes.

[THE Ka]

Mine too. You have an hilarious subconscious, Ka.


Awh, thanks. It writes all my scripts. :)


Speaking of writing, I had another Downer dream last night which was rather short, but interesting nonetheless. I was working at a publishing agency and a manuscript came in with Lommy's real name on it and I went to review it (and then immediately ask her afterwards why she never told anyone she was writing a book), but someone in an office right next to my desk snatched it and took it with them instead. They oddly left their door opened a bit and didn't bring down the blinds, so I watched to see why they just 'had' to review it, plus I was a bit angry.

They read for awhile with usual reaction, then they got to a point where they were screaming 'No!' and as if they were in pain or something and immediately threw it out their door. I went to go see why, and they still wouldn't let me read it, and then proceeded to lock the manuscript in a file cabinet.
When they were gone I ended up taking a crowbar (don't ask where it came from, like everything in dreamland, it popped up handily), and pried open the drawer and managed to start reading her writing. The other person from before was trying to get it out of my hands, but I ended up locking their door and proping the crowbar on the handle.

I forgot what Lommy's novel was about, but I didn't scream in pain or anything and sent it off to be published since it was rather lovely.

So, happy ending. I guess. :)

~ Ka

[Aganzir]

I had a dream Ka got a personal title. She picked Always Evil. Sorry. :D

Then I had another dream in which Brinn and I visited Oddwen. I was apparently on a trip to the US, and Brinn was accompanying me. We had thought Oddwen would take us around the town, but instead she insisted on staying at her home. She lived in a dark two-storey house with stairs that looked like they were about to collapse, and she also had a teenage sister and brother who lived there.
I noticed that someone had written The Plastic People of the Universe (a Czech rock band) on a wall, and asked Oddwen why it stood there.

"My sister listens to them. She has two of their albums," she replied.
"Ooh, do you think you could burn them for me?" I asked, enthusiastic, and explained how it was funny that a Downer (Legate) had first introduced them to me and now I should find some of their CDs at another Downer's place.
However, Oddwen's sister wouldn't have allowed us to burn them, but in the end we didn't tell her and did it anyway.

Then Brinn said our bus was about to leave and we had to go. I was sorry, for in the dream Diamond lived in the same town, and we wouldn't have time to see her.

[Oddwen]

:eek:


...Brinn and I visited Oddwen. I was apparently on a trip to the US, and Brinn was accompanying me. We had thought Oddwen would take us around the town, but instead she insisted on staying at her home. She lived in a dark two-storey house with stairs that looked like they were about to collapse, and she also had a teenage sister and brother who lived there.

This is probably exactly what would happen if anyone visited me. Except my house would probably be worth the stay, unlike your vision of it. But my brother isn't a teenager anymore.

I noticed that someone had written The Plastic People of the Universe (a Czech rock band) on a wall, and asked Oddwen why it stood there.
"My sister listens to them. She has two of their albums," she replied.
"Ooh, do you think you could burn them for me?" I asked, enthusiastic, and explained how it was funny that a Downer (Legate) had first introduced them to me and now I should find some of their CDs at another Downer's place.
However, Oddwen's sister wouldn't have allowed us to burn them, but in the end we didn't tell her and did it anyway.My teenage sister does not approve of burning copies...and I would do it anyway. She doesn't like rock beyond the Beatles, though.

Then Brinn said our bus was about to leave and we had to go. I was sorry, for in the dream Diamond lived in the same town, and we wouldn't have time to see her.No, alas.

In closing, you Agan, bear close watching.

Oliphaunts_Rule (the sister) also demands her albums back.

[Aganzir]

This is what happens, children, if you put personal info on the internet...
Honestly though, I had no idea you have siblings. :p Maybe I can read thoughts then. Cool! :D

[Thinlómien]

Agan and THE Ka - quite nice portraying of me. (Especially Agan :rolleyes:.)

I had two BD dreams while I was away. In the first one, I was Victoria Beckham. I was talking with David Beckham and found out he had cheated on me. I got really angry, so he jumped out of the window. I thought it was a good thing, for he could not survive the long fall. I went to the window to see him fall. About halfaway down, he transfromed into Rune. (Honestly, I have no clue what's it with David Beckham transforming into 'downers. Besides, I only have dreamt of David Beckham twice in my life and both times he turned into a 'downer. Odd, eh?) And he was as lucky as to survive the fall, nothing happened to him. When he was on the ground, he met a fat girl who was dressed in a wedding dress. Actually, the girl looked a bit like Brinn, (except that she's not fat). And you don't need to be Freud to interpret this quite interestingly but never mind, it made me laugh. :D

Also, I had a rather complicated dream, but there were two rather funny parts in it. Firstly, I was on a cruiser ship on the Baltic Sea (on a ship that goes regularly between Helsinki and Stockholm) and found an ad of a b-class movie. To my amusement, I saw that Rune was in it. He was standing in some dark doorway; he was the villain of the movie. The second, quite unrelated, thing that amused me was a part where I, Greenie and Legate were sitting on a bench in the "yard" of my summer cottage. I asked how Legate's day had been and he showed me a drawing of his that demonstarted his breakfast. "Nice colours," I commented. (When I told this dream to Greenie she laughed at me and at the compliment. But really, I didn't say it in the dream because I couldn't think of anything else positive to say, but because the colouring was really beautifully done. He had captured the colours of the fruits very well.)

[Oddwen]

Oh yeah - I dreamed that I was having a conversation with Hookbill. The conversation wandered to memes* that we were posting on LJ, and I mistakenly pronounced it "mee-mee". I saw Hookbill's face darken with anger, and my hasty "No no! I meant "Meem"!" did nothing to assuage his furious uncloaking**.


*A meme, in this instance, is a quiz or test that is passed around via the internet.

**Uncloaking in the "unvieling of power" sense, not the "getting naked" sense, you gutter-minded people.

[Thinlómien]

I had an eccentric BD dream. In it, in order for the EW to die, one ordo had to be sacrificed in the process. In a previous game, Durelin had been the ordo. She had not died, but turned into a unicorn. Now, Rikae the EW was to be killed and I was to be sacrificed. So, I kind of died and turned into a unicorn. However, I had a complaint: "I don't want to be the same as Durelin. I'd rather be a pegasus. Besides, Dury and I are both females, so we can't even reproduce, so there's absolutely no reason for us being both unicorns." The mysterious ModGod agreed and I was turned into a pegasus. Then I galloped away to the woods and to the night.

And no, I have no idea how my subconscious works. But I think it's brilliant at times. :D

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I dreamed last night that Macalaure was flying to the Philippines to visit Lhuna. She intended to take him to "the store that's bigger than the island!" on the advice of a local friend of hers. What island and what store I don't know, but this was Lhuna's friend's advice. And I'm not sure how I came to know about Lhuna's plans for Mac's arrival (pick him up at the airport, take him shopping), but there it is...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Oh yeah - I dreamed that I was having a conversation with Hookbill. The conversation wandered to memes* that we were posting on LJ, and I mistakenly pronounced it "mee-mee". I saw Hookbill's face darken with anger, and my hasty "No no! I meant "Meem"!" did nothing to assuage his furious uncloaking**.

That wasn't a dream... Can I have my cloak back? :p

[Aganzir]

In the dream I had last night, Hookbill wrote in the Downer that he would like to read The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling some day. Then Eönwë came to my place and wanted to use my brothers' computer in order to write to Hookbill on Facebook that he'd like to read it, also. Hookbill replied that he has a copy of the book, and Eönwë could borrow it if he wanted to. Then Eönwë left, and I wrote on Hookbill's wall that also I might like to borrow it, if he didn't mind.

Then I was suddenly out with Greenie and Lommy. It was dark, probably late autumn or early winter, and we were walking through Helsinki.
"We were once hanging out on Weathertop with some guy," began Lommy.
"Yeah, and then he just fell off the hill," said Greenie.
"And when we all went back to Weathertop later, he fell off again."
"He seemed to have serious problems with his balance, falling all the time. And besides it was dangerous to fall off Weathertop, it is so high."
"Then we started thinking... We didn't really want to say anything to him since it was a bit embarrassing... We thought he might have brain cancer."
"Oh," I said, and was silent for a while. "Well... Did he have brain cancer, then?"
"No," said Lommy casually, "he just had bad balance."

Then we entered some museum, and suddenly I wasn't walking between Lommy and Greenie anymore, but Hookbill and Kath. I don't remember all the things we talked about, but then we ended up speaking about my English skills.
"They don't quite match those of a native speaker, but it's just understandable," said Kath, while Hookbill refused to say anything and just rolled his eyes.

[Kath]

Agan! I wouldn't say any such thing about your English skills, I think they're fantastic. You, Lommy, Greenie, Volo ... all of you speak fantastic English, including RL in the case of Volo which I am sure is true for the rest of you as well. :)

[Aganzir]

Haha, thank you. :D Though I'm too much of a perfectionist to be really content with my skills, and will probably always be.

[Eönwë]

I had a BD-ish dream last night. I can't really remember what happened, but I do remember that SpM had returned.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I've had a few Barrow-Downs related dreams recently... well since I got home from vacation... and they all had Hookbill in them... probably a side effect of reading too much Downer.

I had a dream that Lauri and I went to an Independence day celebration and Groin Redbeard was there, and we talked with him for a little bit and then I think we saw Brinniel and some other American Downers, but then out of nowhere came Hookbill, and I know he's not American. So I asked him why he was there, he promptly replyed "I can go wherever I want to go!" in a very snobby tone, and I thought that he was a bit weird... Anyway for our celebration he showed us a slideshow basically dedicated to Lauri because it was her birthday, I think that there were some P and As there as well...

I had another dream that me and some other BDers were at a place and I don't know where we were, but Lhuna was there and she turned into a werewolf, which is funny, because I don't play werewolf games, so I was confused... But anyway she was eating different Downers and I couldn't , stop her... But I think that Hookbill fell over, I don't know why but he did, but he fell down in what looked like a pew like you sit down on in church... But after that my dream got way scary, so I woke up...

Another dream I had was last night, again with Hookbill...
A convention for the Barrow-Downs was being put on and there were a bunch of BDers in one place that was sort of like a high school gym. But everyone was dressed up like pirates except for me and another person that had a Barrow-Downs t-shirt on, which I think was Gil-Galad, but I'm not sure... And I think that I was standing next to Eomer of the Rohirrim... But when the thing had finally started, Hookbill came on the stage looking very funny, but he was talking so he could introduce the Barrow-Wight. But the manner that he was talking in and the accent he had was very surprising. Because he had this strange American sounding accent and was talking about killing people and many different strange things... that is where that dream ended and another one started...

[Lhunardawen]

Wow, I can't believe I'm still included in BD dreams despite being absent lately. And I can't believe I still had one, too!

It was a BDer's birthday - I can't remember if it was Eomer's, SpM's, or davem's. The older Downers (mostly of the old Werewolf crowd, like those from the first 20-odd games, which in my dream included Evisse, Esty, Fea, Gurthang, Lommy, dancing spawn, Farael, Jenny, and Oddwen - sorry I've forgotten most of the rest) decided to have a surprise party for him, even if everyone knew he hated surprise birthday stuff. We were at my house (which looked nothing like my real house) and some of us were just waiting around for him to arrive. I remember being with Enca in particular, and I think Naria or Valier and Rune were there too. I heard Cailin (if Eomer was the birthday celebrant) or Lal (if it was davem - now I'm sure it's not SpM) arguing with someone that he - whoever he was - would just have to live with being surprised on his birthday. Suddenly the alarm was raised and all the Downers shuffled out of the house, and at Nilp's cue everyone began singing the birthday song in English at a dirge-like tempo while someone brought a birthday cake with lighted candles towards davem. Then Eomer (so maybe it was really davem's birthday) started singing faster, and everyone followed suit. I think davem did not get mad at us at all for the surprise.

Later, the phantom was giving a message, and for some reason it was about marriage. :D

When I woke up, I was lying on my LotR pillow with my roommate's laptop right beside me, a pdf file on "Self and Non-self Recognition in a Calcareous Sponge, Leucandra abratsbo" displayed, and Staind's "So Far Away" playing in the background. Some thirty-two hours later, I and my friends were walking towards our classmate singing the birthday song (still in English), and I had a mini pseudo-birthday cake with a lighted candle in hand. (I just included that last thing in case it has something to do with anything.)

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

We were at my house (which looked nothing like my real house) [ . . . ] (Lhunadaga-hime)Maybe it's the house you'll have when you're a teacher and all that. ;) :p :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I know this is a pathetic dream, but I mention all my BD-Dreams here and that is not going to change now.

I dreamt that Eomer repped me for my latest post in Terry Slogan and that it was worth 111 points.

[Thinlómien]

Well, I'm not sure if this is so special either... Anyway, I dreamt that I was sitting on a bench with Nilp and Agan, and Mith was lecturing to them that they should be flirting. Then I joked something about Volo, and Agan and Nilp laughed at it very much but Mith didn't get the joke.

[Gwathagor]

Weird dream: Brinniel showed up at my house and we spent a terrific day hanging out and chatting and doing random fun things in New York City (strange because I live on the West Coast, not the East).

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had a dream last night that was really weird, but it did have Downs-ish qualities to it...

My mom was surfing the internet and came to the Downs and was logged into another account, I asked her why she was not logged into my account... She said that she "accidentally" got an account on the Barrow-Downs. Which is really weird, because she hasn't even read TH or LotR...

[Mithalwen]

This one wasn't much fun - I would explain that I was really quite tense on Saturday night because I was anxious about the Charity sea swim I was going to do on Sunday (and for which I felt underprepared) and I was also curious / anxious about whether we had won the werewolf game in which I had a spat with Nogrod about being glad I wasn't one of his pupils.

And so I had this dream in which I was in his class, but he wasn't at the front. Instead his voice was coming from a loudspeaker behind us. I think he was talking in English but I couldn't follow since it was distorted by the loudspeaker
and accented and for some reason I only had a text in French (which I do understand well) to follow and though I could read the words I didn't have time to work out each part before he asked me questions on it - which I couldn't answer. It was so annoying that I felt as if I hadn't slept at all and it was only when I realised I had been dreaming and looked at the clock that I accepted I must have been asleep.

I think it was werewolf related version of a recurring dream I have (no doubt when there are things I have not done which I ought to have done) which is that there is an essay I have to do for my degree which has to be submitted the next day and either I haven't known about it or have forgotten and it is a long essay and I haven't read any of the books and I don't understand the question and there is no hope of an extension since it is so long since it was set. It is terribly realistic even though it is longer than I want to think about since I graduated and have a post-grad qualification yet the logic of dreams means I wake up in a cold sweat that my BA isn't valid. Clearly I have a guilty conscience.

[THE Ka]

I had a dream Ka got a personal title. She picked Always Evil. Sorry.


Well, you can keep dreaming miss, since I'm now working my way towards being one of the last Downers to recieve a title, let alone settle on one. It's because I'm unofficially, but at a consistent level evil. It's recognized, but hey, there are others with far more of a glamorous track record.:p

The night before last, before I started my first day at my current job, I ended up having Downer-related normal anxiety/worrying dreams. There was several of them but I could only remember about one where I was up to my gills in bussing trays and dirty dishes, and out of the corner of my eye I see several Downers.

They're scattered all over the place and seem to be doing fine with their plates, so I rush to the back of the kitchen to unload some more dishes, then when I come out I pass Hookbill at a table where he has a few tea mugs and small plates stacked nicely and then at his right is a huge haphazard stack of dishes with green slime all over them. I roll my eyes and somehow take the obvious Alien plates back again, then I end up meeting Nogrod, Lommy and her mother at a table which ends up going nicely (I'm sorry Lommy, whenever you appear in dreams nothing bad really happens, must be what Agan calls 'evil' and I see as relatively fine). Rune was there too, but he kept buying only drinks which would fill my tray too soon so I kept having to go back and forth with drink glasses. :rolleyes:
Gradually our forum began to invade the dining area, then I realized I was the only one there from the Downs working, and then the dream ended.

Now I'm more afraid if this actually happens, which I don't think it will. Mostly, for the Alien presence, since most of my human customers would probably be eaten in the process. Come to think of it, I like that idea a little bit...:smokin:

~ Ka the 'Evil' Busser/Server

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I come out I pass Hookbill at a table where he has a few tea mugs

Am I really that English? :D

Amusing dream, Ka. I'm sure if your restaurant got invaded by Downers, it would be something like that. Although, if Alien was there, where was The Phantom? (as far away as possible, I imagine).

[Oddwen]

Clearly I have a guilty conscience.

I must as well, because I dreamed that I was pulled over by a policeman while driving to buy cards to send to Downers. :/

[Nerwen]

I think it was werewolf related version of a recurring dream I have (no doubt when there are things I have not done which I ought to have done) which is that there is an essay I have to do for my degree which has to be submitted the next day and either I haven't known about it or have forgotten and it is a long essay and I haven't read any of the books and I don't understand the question and there is no hope of an extension since it is so long since it was set. It is terribly realistic even though it is longer than I want to think about since I graduated and have a post-grad qualification yet the logic of dreams means I wake up in a cold sweat that my BA isn't valid. Clearly I have a guilty conscience.

Doesn't everyone have dreams like that? Mine usually involves exams for which I've somehow forgotten to study... although actually something not unlike your scenario happened to me in real life this year.:o

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had a somewhat Downs-ish dream last night... well what I can remember of it anyway... But what I remember of it, it almost felt real.

I was on the Downs doing what I normally do and I checked the Paper Telephone thread to see if the current game was over and then I looked at some other threads as well... But what really caught my eye is that Hookbill had posted on the what do you assign threads, I had checked the Shire thread first, he said "I know I shouldn't be posting on this thread but..." and that's about as far as I got when it faded into another dream.

I also had a dream a few nights back that different Downers were winning contests to visit other BDers, that was a good dream... except for my grandma was in it and bothering me...

[THE Ka]

Am I really that English? :D

Amusing dream, Ka. I'm sure if your restaurant got invaded by Downers, it would be something like that. Although, if Alien was there, where was The Phantom? (as far away as possible, I imagine).


Ha, I dunno though. All of my good customers have a few cups of tea usually, so it's probably some weird pattern that's been lodged into my cranium.

Oh no, The Phantom would probably be over where my friend works, in the steakhouse... :rolleyes: I highly doubt they'd let Alien even near the door, though since he has a thing for disguises, I can't blame him for trying. :p


~ Ka

[Volo]

In my dream I was walking along and listening to music happily on a sunny day near the metro station when I saw my friend's sister sitting on the edge of the street, I turned my head and saw the same sister of my friend's walking into the opposite direction of me. As we passed she smiled and said hello and I mumbled something like that back. Then as I walked past the friend's sister who was sitting, she rose and laughed that it was the Downer dancing spawn who passed me. I was very surprised by all that.

I've had such amusing dreams lately, that the only BD dream really pales among them. [and now I have a migrane \o/ ]

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had a number of dreams last night and some of them had BDers in them...

Another Downer had made this machine... I'm pretty sure it was Greenie or Oddwen... And this contraption that she had made could control dreams. So she was putting Barrow-Downs dreams into other Downers heads, and we got to she what dreams they had... I think she gave BD dreams to Lal, Hookbill, Lommy, Rune, and of course I had one too.

The next dream I had, I was telling Lauri (Which is in a lot of my dreams) that I had a Barrow-Downs related dream and that I was going to post it on the Barrow-Downs. (We were outside of this lodge) Then we went inside, I saw Legate and Rune in there... I think they were at a Church meet... They were apparently Catholic...:rolleyes:

[Mithalwen]

Well, I'm not sure if this is so special either... Anyway, I dreamt that I was sitting on a bench with Nilp and Agan, and Mith was lecturing to them that they should be flirting. Then I joked something about Volo, and Agan and Nilp laughed at it very much but Mith didn't get the joke.

Oh I can be thick about jokes...but I think Agan would make a delightful daughter in law... and I would be the last person in the world to discourage flirting... it helps the world go round ;)

[Gwathagor]

Whilst I was at the beach I had a curious Barrow-Downs dream. In it, several Downers showed up at my house - I think they were Thinlomien, Brinniel, Legate perhaps, and maybe Kath or Hookbill - and began helping out with yard-work and various chores around the house. They all spent the night downstairs, but their sleeping bags caught fire randomly. Fortunately, no one minded. It was all rather odd.

[Thinlómien]

I've had some 'downish dreams lately, but as I haven't been around, I've forgotten a lot since I haven't written them down. Sufficient to say that according to my subconscious Rune would come to Finland if he gets a frog-ride and a frog to hug, Legate is a murderer (and the best swordsman of our time), puts soap to his food (it's a Czech habit, makes the food more healthy) and watches drag queen books with me. Also, he reputedly made a song with Greenie, it was called "The Ode to the Stabile System" and it praised the governments of Finland, Czech Republic, Zimbabwe and some other countries, and the Catholic Church in Congo.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

The next dream I had, I was telling Lauri (Which is in a lot of my dreams) that I had a Barrow-Downs related dream and that I was going to post it on the Barrow-Downs. (We were outside of this lodge) Then we went inside, I saw Legate and Rune in there... I think they were at a Church meet... They were apparently Catholic...:rolleyes:
Me and Legate just can't get enough of that Catholicism thingy. . . mmmmm Catholicism

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Me and Legate just can't get enough of that Catholicism thingy. . . mmmmm Catholicism

Speaking of that, I could maybe mention that during our stay in Finland, me and Rune, if I recall correctly, were chosen as most probable that one of us could become the Pope. :D Although I think I was the only one who voted for Rune... ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Speaking of that, I could maybe mention that during our stay in Finland, me and Rune, if I recall correctly, were chosen as most probable that one of us could become the Pope. :D Although I think I was the only one who voted for Rune... ;)I vote Formy... oh wait... Anyway, so do my dreams predict the future then?

[Brinniel]

I had some BD dreams about a week ago.

The first one wasn't very BDer involved. But it started off with me waking up in some sort of museum/aquarium. And on display were giant penguins. I think they were supposed to be Emperor Penguins, except they were something like five feet tall. I got to observe them, take pictures, and even hold a baby one (which was not giant) in my hands. And of course my first thought was, Ooh, I have to call Lommy and tell her about this. She's gonna be so jealous! There was much more to this dream, but sadly no BDers were involved.

In my second dream, I returned to my computer and got onto the Downs only to discover Mac and Rikae's WW game had already begun. But instead of typical WW, it was being played through some online roleplaying game (something like World of Warcraft, I'd imagine). And the special feature of this game was that instead of typing their arguments and suspicions, the players spoke with microphones from their computers. I can't remember much who was playing...I know there were a lot of regular WWers. But what struck me odd was the fact that Bethberry was playing...as far as I know, she has never WWed before. Meanwhile, I was trying to figure out how to work this new way of playing WW as I had entered the game much later than everyone else.

[Aganzir]

I've had a couple of BD dreams lately, which have naturally been influenced by last week's happenings.

The first one was kind of a flashback: Legate came to Finland. But he looked completely different from his photopage picture - he was very short (about my height) and very fat. He had short, light brown hair, and a round face which looked almost like he had Down syndrome (he-he). He kept jumping around and laughing at very silly things.
I would never had believed him to be the Legate of Amon Lanc from the Downs.

Then there was another dream. A few years ago there was an incident in Helsinki in which a man took an axe with him to the metro and killed some random guy. Well, in my dream I was sitting in the metro, and knew that someone would soon kill someone.
I had barely noticed Rune when he pulled an axe from under his grey-striped jumper and started hitting the guy who was sitting opposite to me. I left my seat and went a bit farther from him to call the ambulance while everybody else screamed.
When the police had come and taken Rune away, I fetched his all bloody rucksack from his place and took it with me in case he would still need it.

[Thinlómien]

Agan, your subconscious is hilarious. :D Especially that Rune-thing is priceless. :D

And Brinn, that penguin dream must have been awesome - I wish I had such dreams too. :D

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I had an entertaining dream last night where I was absently observing a thread, I think - though it might have been a chat - about the various schools downers have attended.

This wouldn't really have caught my eye had people not started talking about how Kath loves her grad school, mine, and goes for hikes in the woods outside the city all the time.

I obviously reacted with jaw-dropped incredulity: the college is small. I know many of the students, if not personally than by sight. I know most of the faculty, and much of the staff. It will be strange in a week and a half when a horde of new freshmen arrive for orientation and I know none of them. And yes the graduate program runs on its own set of tracks, but still, I reasoned to Brinniel, surely I would have known if Kath was attending my school and living in my [very small] city. Surely she might have mentioned to me that she intended to come here? And how could I not have known that she'd been living less than a block away from me for months now?

Brinniel failed to console my tremendous oversight, and I mentioned something about Lhuna and Johns Hopkins, and then my dream changed into some weird sing-along in the library which involved a bunch of people I haven't talked to in years and a Santa Claus puppet, and all else was unrelated to the Downs...

[Brinniel]

And Brinn, that penguin dream must have been awesome - I wish I had such dreams too.
Indeed, it was. You should tack a poster of penguins to your ceiling so that penguins are the last thing you see before you fall asleep. :D

In my second dream, I returned to my computer and got onto the Downs only to discover Mac and Rikae's WW game had already begun. But instead of typical WW, it was being played through some online roleplaying game (something like World of Warcraft, I'd imagine). And the special feature of this game was that instead of typing their arguments and suspicions, the players spoke with microphones from their computers. I can't remember much who was playing...I know there were a lot of regular WWers. But what struck me odd was the fact that Bethberry was playing...as far as I know, she has never WWed before. Meanwhile, I was trying to figure out how to work this new way of playing WW as I had entered the game much later than everyone else.
I can't believe I forgot an important part of this dream! While I was playing this weird version of WW, I was hanging out in RL with Glirdan...apparently we had become good friends. When I woke up, I couldn't help but wonder how he managed to wander into my dream considering I never knew him that well and I think he's been missing from the Downs for about a year now...

Another dream I had a few nights ago was about Rune. On Facebook he changed his profile picture for the first time in ages to a completely different photo that resembled something like a professional portrait. The picture looked like Rune, except he was clean shaven and much more poised. I remember writing on his wall to tell him it was a good photo and to keep it as his profile picture for awhile.

And then last night I had a rather silly dream about Legate. He was participating in a wrestling match of all things (I think for a college team). Never mind the small detail that this wrestling match occurred in a boxing ring. Anyway, poor Legate didn't stand a chance against his opponent who was twice his size. And as I watched him get tossed about, I couldn't help but wonder how Legate got to be a wrestler in the first place (don't worry, he didn't get hurt if you were wondering). Then later on, I was browsing on the internet when I came across an article with Legate's picture and a lengthy interview about his life. So apparently in my dream, Legate was not only a wrestler but semi-famous. I think there might've been even more details involving Legate in this dream, but alas, I cannot remember.

[THE Ka]

I think they were supposed to be Emperor Penguins, except they were something like five feet tall. I got to observe them, take pictures, and even hold a baby one (which was not giant) in my hands

You mean like this (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070625131635.htm)? ;)

There you go Brinn, you're subconscious also is up-to-date on the prehistoric discoveries of penguin adaptation and study.

As for me, I had several dreams last night where there was running/walking involved or something, but only one had Downer references. One of them was staged in a piece of work I did for Rune's B-Day, where there's this tree with Odin's face in it and it starts glaring at me and says, "You didn't shade enough! 3H graphite pencil isn't enough! I need more!"
Then I ended up just walking off and I find Fea and Diamond writing a story someway inspired by WW and the Downs. I go to look at it and whenever I lean over the writing and scribbles of editing it disappears since apparently I'm not allowed to see it, then they walk away with the story and the dream ends.

No, I have no clue what it means and I think it's a rather annoying dream because my work was critizing me, which I can do enough on my own. :p

~ Ka

[Brinniel]

You mean like this?

There you go Brinn, you're subconscious also is up-to-date on the prehistoric discoveries of penguin adaptation and study.
Aha, so giant penguins do exist! ...Or rather, they once did.. :D

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Had a dream the other night about Rikae and Mac. It basically boiled down to my mind making needless correlations, and went something like:

I went to the wedding, and saw this very nice old German lady who is connected in a totally obscure and confusing way to my late great grandmother, and was like, "Tilly, what are you doing here?"

And she was like, "It's my great-nephew's wedding. What are you doing here?"

And then I was like "Zomg, we're all like family now!"

[Thinlómien]

I had a most disturbing dream. In it, Mith and the phantom were both really angry at me. That was because I had cricised Arda Cup Soccer and said that tp shouldn't be included in the Tol-in-Gaurhoth team, because he's always included everywhere. I said they should take some member who's just as active but gets less attention, like Groin, for example. Mith was outraged that I could even suggest something like that and the phantom was rather upset too. So, they stopped talking to be, but they were always laughing and gossiping behind my back, and telling other 'downers bad stories about me. They were also sure that it's going to be a fiasco (and told as much to everybody) when they heard I was to play Hermione Granger in the last Harry Potter movie. ( :eek: ) Even though I was angry at them too, I couldn't ignore their cricitism, for I too doubted my capability to handle a major film role. Unfortunately, Mith and tp also tried to sabotage my position as Beorn's heir. (I almost wrote "Beorn's hair"... :D:D) They questioned the papers that proved I was the heir and started such a public debate and suspicion that Beorn himself had to come back from the woods where he had retreated to and put his paw print on the papers to verify them. That silenced Mith and tp for a while.

[Groin Redbeard]

That sure is a complicated dream, Thinlomien. I wonder what you did to have your crazy, yet lovable, brain make up such a dream? :)

[Volo]

I saw an amusing dream. I had a TARDIS inside the cellar of a TARDIS. At first I suggested to take my philosophy group to see something intresting and historic. There were different ideas, but I wanted to see the playwrite Sophocles, whom Karl von Munchausen has also met, and being a fan of Munchausen, I thought I might find him there as well. Then the philosophy group changed into another bunch of people and in the end it was the lot with which I spent the last week of my holiday (I met a fellow BDer!!), except that instead of Legate a silly guy I know from secondary school called Mikael was there. In the end everyone except the two Vikings (Rune and the scary Rohanian man (who was neither scary, nor Rohanian, nor a man) decided they wanted to travel back in time. Mikael had some really bad suggestions, but I don't remember where exactly we would go to (the dream ended before we got anywhere), though I suspect it was Italy.

Otherwise in the dream people were mostly messing around in the wonderful cellar, while I was making sure that I had everything with me (sonic screwdriver, psychic paper, accumulators for the CD-player, etc.) because that was the first time I tried to fly the TARDIS.

[Macalaure]

Had a dream the other night about Rikae and Mac. It basically boiled down to my mind making needless correlations, and went something like:

I went to the wedding, and saw this very nice old German lady who is connected in a totally obscure and confusing way to my late great grandmother, and was like, "Tilly, what are you doing here?"

And she was like, "It's my great-nephew's wedding. What are you doing here?"

And then I was like "Zomg, we're all like family now!"

Welcome to the family! :D

As a matter of fact, I do have some very distant relatives that immigrated into the US a long time ago, so there's a chance. ;)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

As a matter of fact, I do have some very distant relatives that immigrated into the US a long time ago, so there's a chance. ;)

She's not from the US. She was like... An exchange student? And my great-great-grandparents hosted her... or something? And she became close with my great-grandma and over the past sixty or seventy years has flown to the US regularly to visit. And now, even after my great-grandma died, she still comes to visit, and my aunt and some of my cousins fly to Germany every year or so to go hang out with her and her family. And she brings us chocolate.

So, point being, due to the smallness of the world, they're probably your next door neighbors. :cool:

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

My dreams are always related to what's going on in my life. Since I'm back on the 'Downs, is it any small wonder my dreams are as well?

Doesn't bother me any... I like dreaming about you guys.

So I'm walking along a boardwalk. There seems to be a street carnival of sorts occurring to the left of me. Behind me are the people I'm with.

And it doesn't occur to me who I'm with until I see three people walking toward me. Legate and Lommy, and Rune.

And I gasp. And I'm delighted. Because I'm with Nogrod, the phantom, A Little Green, Rikae, Mac, and several others.

And basically it's just like the shindig involving hairy lumberjacks... except cooler because I was there too.

And because we were next to a beach.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

When the police had come and taken Rune away, I fetched his all bloody rucksack from his place and took it with me in case he would still need it.
Ha! Rucksack again! So it's not just me who imagines that Rune must have a rucksack in every dream!

So, they stopped talking to be
...and said: "Thag you very buch."

[Oddwen]

I had an awful dream last night!

I dreamed that I had gone to Finland with the rest of ye, but it was a torpid time, involving images of my beloved first car being torn apart after no longer sprouting hamburgers, murderous Runes and Legates, suicidal Lommies and very angry Greenies. And underneath it all was this horrible consciousness of an evil evil evil Nogrod.

It sucked and I blame Rune and Hookbill.

(I may be laughing now, but I can assure you it was very traumatic at the time. :p )

[alatar]

It was just another somewhat sleepless night, with a few Tolkien-related dreams thrown in...

It was somewhere in the middle of the night - I'd gotten to bed late and had already been up once - when Frodo and I were on the run from some assorted orcs and a troll or two. I was seeing the scene from the Sam point-of-view, and oddly I looked more like Sean Astin than myself. So I'm trying to get Frodo to MOVE! and yet my master seemed to be interested in every little leaf and twig that we passed. I knew that the pursuit was close, as, like in the recent Olympic marathons, the track near the end of the race doubled back on itself, and so one could see one's pursuers across the barriers. The barriers in this LotR dream world were just a line of trees and shrubs, and even these were few and far between, but luckily for me, the orcs and trolls felt obliged to stay on the track, and so even though they were right across the barrier, I knew that I still had a few moments before they caught up to me and Frodo, as they would have to continue down the track a bit before making the return loop. Frodo continued his meandering, and I hoped that I could keep him moving and that we, like at the Olympics, were nearing the end of the race. But what was that smell...?

***
I awoke to the smell of a skunk. There's something about those mercaptans that can raise the dead. Thought that someone had left the dog into the house after she'd been skunked, so got out of bed to investigate. All windows and doors were closed; nothing in the ductwork; I sniffed the dog, and she was fine; I checked both the front and back porches to see if we had some nocturnal visitor, and eventually gave up, figuring that somewhere upwind a skunk met its end. Went back to bed to try again to get some sleep.
***

It was a field of surpassing beauty. It was snow-covered, though the snow was whiter than I had ever seen, whiter than any white ever. But there were colors as well; greens, reds and blues in HD. It was incredibly vivid, and yet calming. There were these tree-like things that were like dandelion seeded clocks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion), and though large, waved in the wind like sea anenomes. I was awed; the fronds, if they be so called, waved as if caught in slow ocean waves. As I looked more closely, the entire structure/tree - and there were a few of them - made shapes just like the one sees when seeing clouds blown across the sky. This particular one appeared as a galloping white horse, and I immediately thought of the horse heads in the Flooding of the Bruinen. It was so cool and peaceful and spellbinding. I had my camera with me, and with much excitement went to capture this environment, wondering if the Downs accepted QuickTime movie format uploads (as still pictures just wouldn't be enough).

Of course, my camera was out of batteries. I left the scene, now seeing a road that led up a hill. At the top of the hill there was a convenience store, and I figured that I could get my batteries there and then return to capture the footage of what Lothlorien *should* have looked like in Peter Jackson's version. I began looking for the 'battery aisle,' and then noticed a person approaching the door of the store from the parking lot. The person was masked and hooded - I could not see a face, and I suddenly knew that the person was about to rob the place. Being close to the door, I went over and turned the latch while yelling to the manager that we were about to be robbed. The masked/hooded robber pulled a gun and began shooting out the glass in the door. A bullet grazed my abdomen, leaving a stinging trail as it passed and then adding a warmth from the small amount of blood that began to flow. I thought not much of it as the bullet must have been very small caliber - we here would call it a "slug" shot from a "BB gun" - and the robber was having a tough go of shooting out the glass. Across the storefront there was another door, and I went to lock that door as well.

But the other robbers were already there. I didn't get a chance to lock the door before this hooded robber began shooting through the glass. This gun was larger caliber, and the first shot knocked out a large hole in the door, and shards of metal and glass into me.

I retreated to another aisle, and the group of bad guys entered, passing by, and I felt just like Barliman in PJ's FotR, hoping that they would just rob the place and pass me by. Which they did, at first, but as I had yelled out, "Go ahead, take what you want and go!" - it wasn't my store - maybe I had attracted attention to myself. Another man came by and pulled out a knife, and held it menacingly towards me. He looked Dunlandish, which I thought odd. He said something, and I tried to distract him while I focused on the knife approaching throat level, hoping to get a chance to knock it from his hand. He turned away at a noise, and I smacked his hand upward. The knife flew up and hit the soft-tiled ceiling, and I hoped that it would have stuck there, but it bounced and dropped and landed right beside us on a cookie display. He looked at me; I at him and we both went for the knife...

***
There was a knock at the front door. The clock indicated that it was 6:45 AM, and no one was expected. I was already dressed, and so ran down the stairs to the front door. It was a local police officer knocking, who apologized for disturbing me, but just wanted me to know that our van door, parked in the driveway, was open. He said that it looked like nothing was missing (I wouldn't have cared if there were as the van is perpetually filled with kid stuff), but one never knew. I figured that this officer was new, as someone who will not be mentioned routinely leaves the van door open. The officer was very nice as he retrieved and handed me the morning paper. Like anyone who shows up, I asked if he were interesting in watching the kids, but he said, "No way," and he ran off to his car and sped away.

After that, my heart was racing too much to sleep, and the kids were up wanting to know who was at the door, and so we started another day.

[Thinlómien]

I had two Barrow-Downs dreams last night.

In the first one, I was third on the reputation list. I was not delighted by the fact Nogrod and Legate had both more reps than I did, but I was even less pleased by the fact that I had changed my avatar to some ugly, grey unclear mess that was supposed to be a flower and some text. (I can't describe it properly but it looked really ugly and boring. :D)

The second dream was nicer. In it, we Finnish 'downers had visited Brinn's home a long time ago in winter. Every now and then, Brinn had posted pictures of a churchyard near her home in Facebook. One day, she posted a new pic. The churchyard was filled with snow. "Yay, now it looks more like it should look like," I commented and somehow stepped into the picture and then I was in the churchyard. Brinn was there (and she had taken a really long hair extension, by the way). We were both very happy to see each other and hugged. Then, Greenie, Aganzir, Volo and Legate popped into the churchyard as well. "What are you doing here?" I asked, for as far as I knew, they were supposed to be in our summer cottage. The others looked at Legate, and in the end, he spoke up, scratching his ear: "I just heard Brinn calling me in the distance. We followed the call and it pulled us here." Then all the six of us went for a walk around the churchyard and after that - I think - we went to have hot chocolate in a nearby café. Needless to say, it was a very pleasant dream.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

In the first one, I was third on the reputation list. I was not delighted by the fact Nogrod and Legate had both more reps than I did,

Oh, what a horror... :p ;)

[THE Ka]

Aha, so giant penguins do exist! ...Or rather, they once did.. :D

In a way, though, I personally think they're hiding out somewhere. Probably in the infamous rucksack...:p

~ Ka

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

In a way, though, I personally think they're hiding out somewhere. Probably in the infamous rucksack...:p
So that's why Rune's been always carrying it! :eek: Maybe he is smuggling them all around the world...

[Brinniel]

In it, we Finnish 'downers had visited Brinn's home a long time ago in winter. Every now and then, Brinn had posted pictures of a churchyard near her home in Facebook. One day, she posted a new pic. The churchyard was filled with snow. "Yay, now it looks more like it should look like," I commented and somehow stepped into the picture and then I was in the churchyard. Brinn was there (and she had taken a really long hair extension, by the way). We were both very happy to see each other and hugged. Then, Greenie, Aganzir, Volo and Legate popped into the churchyard as well. "What are you doing here?" I asked, for as far as I knew, they were supposed to be in our summer cottage. The others looked at Legate, and in the end, he spoke up, scratching his ear: "I just heard Brinn calling me in the distance. We followed the call and it pulled us here." Then all the six of us went for a walk around the churchyard and after that - I think - we went to have hot chocolate in a nearby café. Needless to say, it was a very pleasant dream.
That does sound like a lovely dream. So lovely that I wish it'd all come true (the hair extension part too)....even if I don't live near a churchyard. :)

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

So that's why Rune's been always carrying it! :eek: Maybe he is smuggling them all around the world...

It is a quite tiresome job, but it pays well.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

That does sound like a lovely dream. So lovely that I wish it'd all come true (the hair extension part too)....even if I don't live near a churchyard. :)

Move closer to some then and let's do it! :)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

All right, I had a weird dream tonight, and I hope I will be able to put it together well, although I sure forgot something of it.

I was going to the US, respectively, according to where it was on the map, it would be somewhere in the center of Canada, but it was the US. Kath was living there. It took me one day to go through dense forest to her house, which was a large family-house partially made of glass, had two or three floors and was full of lustres and very noble-looking inside. Kath invited me inside, but I said that I want to go instead to the old garage which was located under the hill on which the house stood, and said that I am going to wait there for Brinn, Volo, Aganzir, A Little Green, Lommy and their RL friend, Annina, who were to come. So we went to the old garage, which was falling apart and a very old car from the 50s was standing there. Suddenly all the expected Downers started to come, one by one or by two at maximum. When Volo and Aganzir came, they started to speculate about using the car to go somewhere, and when Little Green came there, she became all enthusiastic and started even polishing the car so that it's nice when we drive it (the RL friend of theirs was just hanging around and kept telling them that it's all nonsense). Then suddenly there was a bus stop and I said that I am not going to go with them but wait for the bus to come. And that's about all of it.

[Thinlómien]

A while ago I had a long and rather complicated BD dream but I can't recall all of it. I remember it included Rune being somehow physically disabled (paralysed or something) and being very much like (both personality and looks) Eustace from Narnia. He was rather annoying and insisted on being carried everywhere. Then, also, Angela Merkel was chasing me, Legate, Volo and Greenie around Helsinki at some phase. Originally, Agan had invited her to join our company, but the four of us (especially Volo and I) were against the idea, so we ran away and she followed... :eek: Also, this all had something to do with tp writing a relationship guide and dedicating it to Fea, Eomer and Cailín... :D

[the phantom]

Now that the game is over I can tell my Werewolf dream! :)

Some of the quotes may be off a bit, but they should give the general idea of things.

Lommy and I were doing our usual Night plotting, but for some reason we were in her computer room (I have no clue how I got to Finland). Greenie was in there too and we were letting her in on everything (this was after we found out she was a Cobbler).

Then Nog opened the door and asked "What are you guys doing in here?" We said we weren't doing anything, and he started to shut the door. Then he realized that I was there and he stepped inside. "Phantom?!" "Yes, it's me" And we embraced and shook hands and started joking about the Middle-Earth soccer tournament.

But then he looked at me weird and said "What are you doing here?" I was worried that he was going to figure out that Lommy and I were Wolves and would tell everyone (he was still alive in my dream), but Lommy tried to come up with a cover story real fast. "He's here to see Greenie. She likes him."

Greenie backed her sister's story up, but I whispered to Lommy "That's not going to help things", and sure enough, Nog glared at me and said "Greenie, you're grounded." And then he pointed at me and said "I'm gonna lynch you tomorrow!" and stormed off down the hall.

So we decided we had to kill him that night. For some reason killing him in the game involved going downstairs and getting his laptop and logging him out of The Barrow-Downs. Lommy and I were happy then but Greenie said something like "That's not fair! You're killing people and I get grounded!"

And then to top things off we heard a knock at the door, and it was Mac! For some reason he was dressed in brown robes, and resembled Obi-Wan Kenobi. He stepped inside and put his hood down and said "I'm sorry Phantom, but we're going to have to kick you out of the game. People have complained that they wanted to play longer, but you keep killing them. Lalaith in particular was very upset about dying so soon."

I tried to argue, pointing out that I was doing my job, and that Lommy had been in on it too, but he said "Sorry, but the complaints have only mentioned you." (How the people knew that I was a WW is beyond me.)

Then I woke up. Very weird.

[Thinlómien]

Now, phantom, that is simply hilarious.... :D

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Indeed :D How comes, so complex, so crazy, so funny :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Indeed :D How comes, so complex, so crazy, so funny :DHe must've made it up.;)

[the phantom]

He must've made it up. ;)
The quotes are partly invention, because I simply cannot remember exactly what was said. But I've not altered the events nor the meaning of the quotes, I promise you.

They say that sometimes our dreams can uncover the truths of reality. I believe it, and so I wonder what sorts of truths we can harvest from my journey into the mystical world of slumber.

1) Mac has special powers, and would make an excellent mentor for a youngster destined to save the galaxy.

2) Lalaith hates me.

3) Lommy is willing to kill her own family for person gain.

4) It's simply not meant to be, Greenie. Nog would ground you, and he'd kill me. Now if it were the other way around I'd be willing to take the risk, but as it is, I'm afraid we'll just have to be friends.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Well, if my BD dreams came true then... lets just not go there... too much cheese and tea before bed...

[Thinlómien]

I dreamt that Groin removed his account permanently and all his posts where thus deleted automatically. I remember thinking: "Now that is a very stupid thing to do, just leave like that with no reason. Besides, now that all his posts are gone, how are the RPGs supposed to make sense anymore?"

It was weird...

[Groin Redbeard]

I dreamt that Groin removed his account permanently and all his posts where thus deleted automatically. I remember thinking: "Now that is a very stupid thing to do, just leave like that with no reason. Besides, now that all his posts are gone, how are the RPGs supposed to make sense anymore?"
Call me silly call me crazy, but at least I'd be remembered if I went like that! :D;)

[Lalaith]

I dispute point 2.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

As bizarre dreams go... This was pretty bizarre...

Rune, Diamond and I were, for some reason, trying to gain entry into an 'exclusive' golf club. It turned out to be run by the phantom who lead us into a field with a few other people, mostly wearing suits. phantom explained that they have a very strict selection system because they like to 'keep the riff Raf out'.
So he began to administer his tests. First everyone had to jog on the spot. Then he flung a rugby ball towards the people. One man leaped up and grabbed it and began shouting. Phantom nodded to some security people who dragged the man away. Rolling his eyes, phantom said, "Rugby player. We always get one!"
He then ran at Rune and almost kicked him between the legs. Naturally, he attempted to protect himself. Therefore, phantom signaled for him to be taken to where the rugby player was standing.
Phantom then yelled out abuse until one old man broke down and began crying. He was dragged away as phantom sighed and said, "divorced, eh?"
There were a few tests I obviously missed because when I looked the crowd of 'rejects' was getting larger. Now they were tying some Police cordon tape around them.
The final test was about to begin, everyone still jogging on the spot. Diamond and I nervously glanced around. The phantom began shouting out random noises like "bloo blah blee guurrnn..." and blowing raspberries. Diamond and I tried desperately not to laugh. We were saved when an old fat man in a grey suit jogged out of the line up to the phantom with a baffled face.
"Ah, Mr Davis," said the phantom, "I think you know where to go." the man nodded and jogged towards the rejects. While the phantom began giving out congratulations to the remaining applicants, Mr. Davis had missed the rejects and was now jogging off into the distance.

We never did get to play golf...

[Volo]

A night ago I had a dream including, once again, Rune.

For some reason I was hanging around with some of my local friends in a cafeteria and Rune came by. He still had long hair, so I told him: "I knew the photo you posted in lj was a fake". Then we went to play paper telephone with him and my other friends. I got a sentence that was something like "He had never been on a ship before, but many times on a boat, so this was his first time." I drew the deck of Viking Line and on top of one big pipe another smaller ship. I thought my picture was brilliant.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Getting kicked between the legs and have my hair re-grown in one night. . .how lucky can one guy be!?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

There was a picnic table. Around it sat Mithalwen, Lal, somebody, davem, Mac, Rikae, TGWBS. Nearby was Rune, and Volo was wandering around.

"Wow," I said, "Look! Volo cut his hair too!"

Volo stumbled along carrying an armful of wood as we inspected his Cate Blanchett-in-Indiana-Jones haircut.

"Oh, wow," I gasped, suddenly remembering, "Lal, I had a dream with you and davem and Jay in it!"

Lal asked what I dreamed about.

"In my dream," my dream self answered, "I told you and davem and Jay that I'd gone to Surrey."

"What did I say?" she asked, sipping her iced tea. I sat lazily, draped on my bench, my feet up with my back to the wall.

"You said, 'Why the [-] would ya do that?'" I laughed.

Mith, who was a good thirty years older than I've been imagining (sorry, my darling, it's not my fault...), laughed and said very primly, "Quite a good response, that."

[Mithalwen]

Well you got the aversion to Surrey right ;) .

[Kath]

Oy, what's wrong with Surrey?

[Mithalwen]

Well it has good shopping, I'll grant you that..and Wimbledon ... has to be a good side to being the "Gin and Jag belt" and choc full of Stockbrokers .... :p

I always think of Margo and Jerry Leadbetter from the Good Life ...

[Nogrod]

Oh my! I just noted the phantom's dream... How real can they get? :rolleyes:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I had a very short BD-Dream just now (woke up 15 min. ago).

It was very uneventful: TGEW wrote an LJ entry where she complained that Mac had been quite unhelpful and only wanted to state the obviouse, that Lal had been outright rude just because she could not make it work. It was kind of implicit what she was writting about and in my dream I knew it, but just as I was going to make her elaborate my alarm rang. . . For a few seconds I considered skipping my lectures ,so that I could finnish the dream.

What suprised me about this dream was that it involved TGEW, a downer I have had little dealings with. Maybe this was a result of me looking through her photos on Spybook the other day. . .

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Oh my!
STOP THAT!!!

However, tonight I had a weird dream, and now that you reminded me of tp's dream, I realise there's something in common... although I already forgot about that one! Anyway... in my dream, Eönwë wrote in a thread something like professions of love to A Little Green. My conclusions from seeing his post were: okay, now he's obviously completely crazy and silly, because A) he doesn't realise that nobody cares about his ramblings, B) he doesn't realise that Greenie didn't express any feelings towards him. Silly one, he just misinterpretated the fact that she wrote in two of her posts, where she was replying to him, something like "kisses" and "hugs", but that was just the usual way for her to end her posts, and in one of the posts she probably wrote it also because she wanted the post not to look too offensive because otherwise she disagreed with him there. Then I caught myself thinking how old the two of them are. And then I woke up.

Apologies to the concerned ones. :D I have no idea how it happened to come upon the two of you...

[Nogrod]

STOP THAT!!!Sorry... :D

[Thinlómien]

I had a dream that BW himself had a couple of BD dreams and posted them here. I don't remember all of them, but one was something like Nogrod wanting to poison me. It was supposed to be an honour killing, or something. Greenie and Legate were related to it too.

Now, I wonder, how sick has your subconscious to be if it assumes someone else's subconscious would come up with ghastly things like honour killings? :eek::D

[Aganzir]

I had a really bizarre dream last night which also had a few Downs-related parts.

I was planning to travel to Bulgaria and had a map of Europe with me. The map was quite out of ordinary, though - as if it wasn't a map but rather a picture taken of a globe, for the perspective was really weird. It had Bulgaria located by the Baltic Sea. I couldn't speak any Bulgarian and didn't know where to look for a dictionary, so I decided to call Brinn and ask if she could scan and send me a few pages of her Europe travel guide where there were some random useful phrases in different European languages. However, she replied to me: "You silly, don't you remember that I left the book and my bag for you in Finland?"

And suddenly I was sitting on the metro with a friend and noticed that Brinn's bag was on the opposite seat. I found the book there easily and tore off a page with some Bulgarian phrases. Then I put it back in the bag and got off the metro. I considered taking the bag with me since Brinn had left it for us to keep until she could return to claim it, but as it was quite heavy I just concluded "Nah, why bother, I can always go and pick it up later at the lost property office."

Then I was in my room with at least Greenie, and suddenly my father came there shouting that he didn't like the Soviet music I listen to, took a cd from my table and left. I tried to explain that the songs on the cd had been composed before the Soviet Union was even established, but he wouldn't listen.
We had been sitting by my laptop all the time, and then we noticed that Rune had started a thread on the Mirth forum, asking people in how many songs they had seen his name. We were going to leave somewhere with our friends, but Greenie and I wanted to write down all the songs we could remember before we left so we were already late (funny, because usually it's us two who are in time). I remembered only The Runes Are Still Alive by Sonne Hagal, but she just kept coming up with new ones.

Then, suddenly, we (Nog, Greenie, Lommy, me, and probably also two other friends of ours) were at Nog's summer cottage. It was autumn, the trees were red, the air was chilly and it was incredibly beautiful. Everybody else but me was wearing a shabby Father Christmas costume and I was sad because I didn't have one. At least Brinn and Rune, I cannot remember who else, were going to come there, too, and we were waiting for them.

That's about it.

xed with Lommy

[Mithalwen]

Now, I wonder, how sick has your subconscious to be if it assumes someone else's subconscious would come up with ghastly things like honour killings? :eek::D

I would say that was time by your standards..... :p

Mith

(whose life is seldom unthreatened in Lommie's drems).

[Aganzir]

Last night I had a dream I was at the theatre watching Hamlet and Laertes was played by davem.

[Formendacil]

I had my first dream that I remembered in months last night, and it figures there would be a BDer involved.

I was doing something with Brinniel, which I blame on the fact that I printed some of my summer pictures yesterday, and this included my visit. I'm not sure anymore, but I think we might have been travelling somewhere to meet another BDer, but who? I know not.

Anyway, were stopped at what I can only describe as some sort of a 1950s diner in the middle of swamp in the middle of a very dune-y desert. Think something like a Cajun oasis in Utah...

Although I'm sure we stopped there to eat, we ordered off the menus because the menus were themselves rather strange. Instead of having food on them, they contained instructions that, for some reason or another we had to follow in order to get our food. It might have been magic...

Whatever the case was, Brinn read ahead first, and apparently the first instruction had to involve a falsehood, and she said "My gun is not loaded and it is a rifle." At this point, she pulled a pretty lady's handgun out of her purse and pointed in demonstration. I remember being vaguely shocked that Brinn was so nonchalant with her gun, though the fact that she owned one was one that my brain seemed to think was perfectly normal.

I believe I was in the middle of going through my first set of instructions when I woke up...

[Thinlómien]

Okay, this dream probably doesn't amuse you, unless you've played the Middle-Earth: The Wizards card game, or enjoy the idea of Rune as Tom Bombadil (or worse, both :D). Anyway, some time ago, I dreamt that Rune was TB and I was Frodo and I came to his house. Tom Bombadil's house was a place in the card game (even though it isn't in reality, at least I think it isn't). It was a place of the category border holds. Rune Bombadil found it absurd and claimed it should be a "wilderness hold". I explained that "wilderness holds" don't exist in the game and that it makes perfect sense, since the only danger that can threaten you in Tom Bombadil's house is that if other travellers stopping there are thieves. Any dangerous things that could attack in a "wilderness hold" if such existed wouldn't make sense, because Tom Bombadil's power over the life in his realm would undo them. Rune Bombadil wasn't convinced and continued eating honey cakes and drinking beer.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had a very short BD-Dream just now (woke up 15 min. ago).

It was very uneventful: TGEW wrote an LJ entry where she complained that Mac had been quite unhelpful and only wanted to state the obviouse, that Lal had been outright rude just because she could not make it work. It was kind of implicit what she was writting about and in my dream I knew it, but just as I was going to make her elaborate my alarm rang. . . For a few seconds I considered skipping my lectures ,so that I could finnish the dream.

What suprised me about this dream was that it involved TGEW, a downer I have had little dealings with. Maybe this was a result of me looking through her photos on Spybook the other day. . .That's interesting, I don't even have a LJ but okay... But I don't think I would be complaining about Mac or Lal...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Oh my, what kind of a weird dream is that? :D

I explained that "wilderness holds" don't exist in the game and that it makes perfect sense, since the only danger that can threaten you in Tom Bombadil's house is that if other travellers stopping there are thieves.

But sure you wouldn't think of this argument in real (outside the dream)? Because the idea of several parties of visitors meeting inside Bombadil's house is just ridiculous... The famous Hotel Bombadil? ;)

Although for some reason it sounds possible, eventually, for you to think about such thing... like, such thing could happen for example in a bad M-E RPG scenario... :p

[Aganzir]

Plane tickets to Finland aren't cheap... poor college student... If the invitation remains open for a few years and doesn't exclude me... :cool:
Fea's post in I met a fellow BDer reminded me of my first ever BD dream which I thought might be appropriate to post here at last. The funny thing is that I had it about half a year before I joined the Downs.

In the dream Fea came to Finland. For some reason I met her while Lommy was still at school. She chatted with me about Downers.
"Sleepy called Lommy accidentally Thinlolmien a while ago," she told me, "and now everybody just calls her Lol."
That's the only thing I still remember though I reckon she told me other things as well.

[Groin Redbeard]

Wow, I'm surprised you remember you dreams from that long ago, Aganzir! I can barely remember mine after three days. :)

Last night I dreamed that I was visited by a horde of Downers (I know, scary isn't it). I remember myself leaning over my desk, reading a book or studying something, when there came a rapping at my bedroom door. Opening the door I found Rune and Legate standing at my door with party hats on; they smiled and walked right passed me. They started talking about something very loudly when there came another knock. I answered the door again and there stood Thinlomien, Little Green, Aganzir, and Lady Great. They all yelled: "surprise," Little Green then threw confetty at me, then they rushed in screaming. The next thing I know there are dozens of people at my door and they all come flooding in until the room is jammed packed, then everyone started screaming and jumping up and down. Next thing I know I'm on the floor and all the walls in my bedroom have fallen down! :D

[Aganzir]

So now you know how Bilbo felt. ;)

I don't remember all my dreams this long, only some special ones (ie very good, bad or funny). I doubt I would have remembered that one, had I been a member of the Downs already back then, but since I wasn't... Well. Though one non-Downer friend of mine has had several BD dreams as well so it's not anything that special. :D

[Thinlómien]

I dreamt that I went to visit Groin at his place because we had to plan an RPG together. He lived alone in a small apartment in a block of flats. When I came in, two black and white cats came to greet me. My first comment was: "Nice cats. Your home is quite messy." Groin made no reply and I realised I hadn't been very polite, so I amended: "But it's a nice place, it would even be quite tidy if there weren't all those plastic bags around." Groin didn't say anything this time either, so I concluded I had been a little tactless again. Then, I started wondering which 'downers I would enjoy living with, the list was something like Aganzir, Legate, Diamond, Eomer, Sally and Shasta. My reasoning was something like I was sure they'd arrange great parties... :D:rolleyes:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Wow, I'm surprised you remember you dreams from that long ago, Aganzir! I can barely remember mine after three days. :)

Last night I dreamed that I was visited by a horde of Downers (I know, scary isn't it). I remember myself leaning over my desk, reading a book or studying something, when there came a rapping at my bedroom door. Opening the door I found Rune and Legate standing at my door with party hats on; they smiled and walked right passed me. They started talking about something very loudly when there came another knock. I answered the door again and there stood Thinlomien, Little Green, Aganzir, and Lady Great. They all yelled: "surprise," Little Green then threw confetty at me, then they rushed in screaming. The next thing I know there are dozens of people at my door and they all come flooding in until the room is jammed packed, then everyone started screaming and jumping up and down. Next thing I know I'm on the floor and all the walls in my bedroom have fallen down! :D

Yes, the suprise was that we where infact a demolishing crew disguised as a party!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I totaly forgot to tell you about my BD dream that I dreamt last night.

The dream started with me being back in Oxford: The Oxonmoot had just finnished and I was saying goodbye to Kath, she got on a bus and drove away. I not knowing what to do walked up and down the streets of Oxford and after having seen most of the city I went in to a cafe and had a cup of coffee, which is odd as I cannot stand coffee. . . I was looking out the glass door when the landscape all of the sudden changed, I was now in Wisconsin!
All of the sudden I saw Kath waiting at a bus-stop, I walked over too her, but she was very angry to see me. For some reason she was upset that I got to Wisconsin faster than her, we then sat down at table outside a restaurant called "Kohl's" (I don't know why Kohl's had changed into a restaurant) where Di worked. Di came to our table and sat down next to us and we all looked at the menu-card which where in two different languages, the one was an Anglo-German hybrid and the other was Franco-Dutch hybrid and we were very unsuccesfull in trying to translate it. Kath then turned into a man I have never seen before, he had some very strange hair and after a while I got the impression that it was Di's boyfriend. . .

Then I woke up
Not a very interesting dream.

[Brinniel]

I remember being vaguely shocked that Brinn was so nonchalant with her gun, though the fact that she owned one was one that my brain seemed to think was perfectly normal.
Of course it's perfectly normal, I always carry a gun with me...just in case. ;)

I had a BD dream last night. It took place in some mutated form of Boston and Boise. Rune had come to visit. We were hanging out, walking down the streets of the city, and having all sorts of fun. I remember in one random part, I kept dropping my Emerson sweatshirt in the middle of the sidewalk and he kept telling me to pick it up. Anyways, later on we sat down on these bleachers to watch an outdoor show. I got up to leave for a moment and when I came back, Greenie was suddenly sitting on the other side of Rune. I didn't question it, and simply sat back down. While watching the show, I felt someone brush up against my left side. At first I thought it was Rune, but I turned to discover that Lommy was suddenly sitting in between us. Again I didn't question it and continued to watch the show. Later in the dream very excited about their surprise visit (so excited that I called my mom to inform her), I took Greenie and Lommy to where I lived, which was a combination of my family home and my room in Boston. They commented on my stuff with words like, "Ooh fairies" and "You certainly have a lot of stuff from Finland" (apparently I did in the dream). When I asked why they had made the surprise trip to the US, Lommy answered with something to the liking of, "Well, I was in London and the US was so close, so I thought I might as well buy a ticket."

There was more to this dream, some BD related though mostly not, but it got so odd (as most of my dreams do) that I can't even begin to explain...

[Aganzir]

I've been having pretty much BD dreams lately, and last night I had one again.

Rikae and Macalaure had moved to the house next door to mine. Greenie, Lommy, I and some other people were on a walk, and Greenie and me happened to catch a glimpse of Rikae doing the dishes inside. So we decided to visit them.

I don't remember very much about the visit itself, but it included several weird parts. Mac was at work (he was a waiter in some restaurant) so we talked to Rikae. When we asked her why they had decided to move to Finland, she told us her mother had kicked them out because Mac had committed some crime.
Then Mac came home, and we all decided to go for dinner to some restaurant. "European countries are competing terribly nowadays about who have their national dishes served the most in other countries," explained Mac. "Plane companies try to make compromises, and every time you have breakfast on a plane, they give you a sandwich with a creamy bun on it instead of butter."

[Laurinquë]

So for the first time in ages I actually remembered a dream I had! And it was slightly Barrow-Downs related too!

It started out in my bedroom, I was looking out my window, gazing at the snow that had suddenly appeared there and worrying about Danish Werewolves getting in and eating me (Don't ask), when suddenly I was stepping outside, and I starting to swim though the snow like it was water.

So there I was, swimming up my street, doing the backstroke in fact, when I looked to the side of the road and saw this huge yellow, diamond-shaped sign that said The Barrow-Downs. Well I thought I was going rather mad, seeing Barrow-Downs signs, and so I decided to swim back home, wherein I found my mother on my computer and reading this Barrow-Downs thread called "The Dark and Silent Ring". Then sadly, I woke up.

So yeah, it was madness. And not very Barrow-Downs related madness.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Imgaine how worried I am. . .living in Denmark and all.

I would like to state the swimming is a very silly form of transportation, unless of course practised in water.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know, swimming in snow wouldn't be very easy. What have you been smoking?

[Eönwë]

You know, swimming in snow wouldn't be very easy.

Unless you're Legolas.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Unless you're Legolas.

No, I think it would be har for him as well. . . he would just float on top of the snow if he tried swiming.

[Aganzir]

I had a dream I and some other Downers (don't remember who) were visiting Form. We were sitting on a scarlet sofa and he was fussing around dressed in a priest's robe, checking we were alright and had everything we needed and so on.
While Form was fetching us some food from the kitchen, Greenie and phantom decided to climb the table. They were lying there and tickling each other until Greenie started complaining: "Eww phantom, did you just fart?"
That's all I remember.

[Lalwendë]

I'm still numpty even now because I got woke up from a really cool dream this morning:

There was this Mediteranean style villa and there was a big fight going on betwen David Tennant and some hoodies. Then I tried to get into the lift and everything disappeared and it was like a big steelworks (like Magna in Rotherham, which is enormous and very sci-fi and post-apocalyptic in fact) and Hookbill was getting all excited about how he had invited David Tennant to join the 'Downs Big Event'. Then there was this crash and davem was all excited and David Tennant fell through the ceiling slaying this giant spider and he was saying he wasn't an actor, he really is Doctor Who and he really exists. Then I woke up. DRAT!!!

This what happens when you read Batman comics in bed at night. :eek:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Last time I checked, David Tennant was an actor, and Hookbill didn't like his Doctor, but what do I know?

[the phantom]

You had Form dressed in his robes, Ganzy? Hmmm... perhaps you are feeling the need to confess about something?

And that's typical of Greenie, really- blaming others for her misdeeds. The event in the dream was merely a reflection of this.

But I can't figure why the table was the surface of choice with a perfectly good sofa available. And why was the sofa red? Stained with blood, perhaps? And since only you remained upon it, you feel like you are solely responsible for something terrible. This would chime with your urge to confess to a priest.

Hmm... perhaps that is why we moved to the tabletop. You felt we were placing ourselves above you and your shame. But the tickling... I suppose it is closely tied with enjoyment, smiling, laughing, and generally being carefree, a stark contrast to you sitting alone on the bloody sofa.

I'm sure all of this has something to do with Werewolf.

[Thinlómien]

According to my dreams, Gwathagor is betrothed to an NPC of mine - a young Gondorian woman. :D Also, he appeared in another dream: Greenie and I were going to movies when we saw an advertisement. It had a big bear sitting on a snowy mountain and wearing a red t-shirt. It might have even had a bottle of coke. Greenie and I started laughing at it, because it reminded us of Gwath. :D (Now, I wonder... what to make out of this?? :p)

[Gwathagor]

Wow. Wow. A bear, huh? That is really weird.

But I'd like to hear more about this Gondorian girl. :cool:

[Groin Redbeard]

According to my dreams, Gwathagor is betrothed to an NPC of mine - a young Gondorian woman. :D I could picture that happening. Gwathagor reminds me of a Gondorian: tall, dark haired, devoted and intelligent. As for the Coke Bear, I don't know how you got that. :rolleyes:

EDIT: By Durin's beard, I just made my 1000th post! :D

[Aganzir]

You felt we were placing ourselves above you and your shame.
Or maybe you two just decided to help Form and offered to be eaten so he wouldn't need to cook - maybe you even enjoyed it? That would also explain the bloodred sofa.

A few nights ago I had a dream Groin came to Finland and I played him some Finnish communist songs, saying they were just old Finnish music, and asked his opinions on them. I don't think I got any clear response, though. A pity. ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

A couple days ago this happened...

I was just standing somewhere and Lommy came up to me. She said "Have you read the Downer this week yet?" and at that time I hadn't read it, I replied "No I haven't, unfortunately." She also said something about the Phantom and Alien....

I woke up shortly after.

[A Little Green]

I just had the first BD dream in a long while. In it, Gwathagor came to Finland. For starters he hung his own lamp on the ceiling and started roasting red peppers on it (and forgot them there). He also explained that if we want to pay a visit to him, we should walk through Europe and Africa, then through Antarctica and South America and finally to his home in Chicago, which was in Nevada and looked like an oversized native American village in the middle of a desert.
Before he left, he took off the red peppers that had burnt quite badly and were all black. He burnt his fingers because he took them with his bare hands, and only said "Ouch, these are hot!" or something like that. As souvenirs, we gave him a baby (in the dream it was some sort of an inside joke that the baby was his though it really wasn't; I have no idea where we got the baby from) and a big transparent plastic box filled with water and a few cucumbers. In return, he gave us pillows (!!) on which were printed photos of 'Downers he had met before us. (I don't remember who they were, though... a pity.)

:D

[Gwathagor]

Whaaaaaaaat the heck.

I like that my town looks like a Native American village, though.

[Volo]

That's one weird dream you had, Lily! :D:D

[Eönwë]

I did have a dream, but I can't remember too much of it.

Basically, one of my friends (but I think it was a Downer) bought a copy of the new LOTR movie (not Jackson's, or any other real one) and told me that if you open it in a certain way, it acts as a "bridge"/portal/wormhole etc. to "somewhere else". To prove this he did it very quickly (so no-one else could see, even though we were alone in my room) and disappeared. Then I kept on trying to do it, but every time I did this some downer came into my room and asked me something, which distracted me. It was also secret, and there were people spying on me, so I couldn't let anyone see this. I also had a younger brother who happened to be a Downer (can't remember which either) who I did tell. Then, out of nowhere, I heard Aganzir telling off Kitanna from trying to steal the DVD from me.

*

Then I woke up at 4am, for some reason with the urge to vote Kitanna in WW the next Day. I fell back asleep but when I did wake up, I realised that Kitanna had actually voted in me WW at 4am my time. Strange.




I must have been reading too much of this thread (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=15125). :rolleyes:

[Aganzir]

That must have been disappointing... It's annoying when someone keeps interrupting you when you're just about to do something cool you're only able to do in dreams.

But especially the voting part was strange. :D

[Thinlómien]

Two dreams for you, fellow citizens of the Mounds...


A wedding and a ghastly painter boy

Greenie and I were spending time in Noggie's place when he announced that he has booked us flights for the following day and we are going to US to attend Mac&Rikae's wedding. When we arrived, the two were happy to put us up but said that sadly we couldn't come to their wedding as the church was full and they couldn't make any last-minute arrangements. They were happy to see us anyway. We suggested that maybe after their ceremony and party they would like to see us and some US 'downers who could make it there for an hour or two in a café or something. They said it was a good idea and called at least Brinn.

So, their big day came and they went away. We were left alone in their house and went for a walk. We were coming back to Rikae&Mac's house in he evening and complaining it's a pity all the portrait-makers close their businesses at 8pm, because we would have wanted to get portraits of ourselves, but it was already something like 5 to 8. At 8 exactly, we saw a young boy sitting on the street and painting. We asked him if he could paint portraits of us even though it was already 8pm. He nodded and said: "Sure, no problem." At that moment, I realised he was Fea. While he was painting us, we asked him about his life and doings and he told all kinds of stuff. At some phase, he said: "You know, I was supposed to be Rikae and Mac's babysitter today, but I happened to lose the baby." His tone was careless, as if he was talking about losing a pen they had borrowed him, or something.


My subconscious, too, pairs up people

Aganzir had something related to dating in her sig. Eönwë nominated it on the signature thread. He quoted the sig and wrote: "It was beautiful while it lasted. TGEW and I had a lot of fun for four months but now it's over. IOh well."


I refrain from commenting. :D

[Lalaith]

Last night I had a very peculiar dream.
I was looking after a giant snake. For some reason related to its care, I had to post the same post, five times, on Brinniel's LJ blog.
And I thought to myself, god, I hope she knows it's because of the snake, because otherwise she's going to think I'm unbelievably boring.
I have no idea what the post actually said, or whether Brinniel even has an LJ blog.

[Thinlómien]

I always have weird dreams if I take a nap...

This time I dreamt I was having a food fight with Gwathagor and we kept running around a house and throwing food at each other. Sadly, I cannot remember any details except that I poured balsamic vinegar on Gwath.

:eek::D

[Gwathagor]

I always have weird dreams if I take a nap...

This time I dreamt I was having a food fight with Gwathagor and we kept running around a house and throwing food at each other. Sadly, I cannot remember any details except that I poured balsamic vinegar on Gwath.

:eek::D

:confused:

This is my third B-Downs dream appearance in under two weeks.

[Eönwë]

My subconscious, too, pairs up people

Aganzir had something related to dating in her sig. Eönwë nominated it on the signature thread. He quoted the sig and wrote: "It was beautiful while it lasted. TGEW and I had a lot of fun for four months but now it's over. IOh well."

Hmm... So people imagine me writing stuff like that?

I refer you to Legate's post (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=567266&postcount=1425), which isn't really the same, but you can see the similarity.

Twice in a row, eh? :D

[Thinlómien]

Okay, this is a dream I had a while ago.

Legate, Brinn, Nogrod, Greenie, Aganzir, Volo and I were sitting on balcony and playing cards, or something. From the balcony there could be seen a sort of valley filled with sand and little hills. Volo called the valley Barrow-Downs. There was salted liquorice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_Licorice) all over the valley. "I'm going to collect that candy," Legate announced. Everybody, especially Greenie and Agan started protesting loudly, saying: "If he goes to pick it all up, he will eat it all and we won't get any." I just laughed and said: "I don't mind it if he goes. He will bring them to me anyway."

Then the salted liquorice issue was solved in one way or other, and the dream moved on. We were still sitting there when someone burped. We started looking at each other accusingly and debating in a ww-like manner who it had been. I said: "I'm sure it wasn't Brinn because she's so small and cute that she couldn't surely make a noise like that. Or no, she could. But only after three hours of sitting on the sofa, watching a movie and eating lots of popcorn and potato chips." Brinn accepted this as an argument for her innocence and laughed, and the others agreed with me. Somehow, it ended up being a question of whether the burper had been me, Nogrod or Legate, and the issue couldn't be solved. (I knew it hadn't been me, though. :D)

Then the dream moved to its third part, which was only vaguely related to the beginning. More or less the same people were moving to an apartment together. It was in Paris (that looked suspiciously like Helsinki ;)) and the others were going there beforehand and I was coming later. I managed to get lost. Then, I accidentally bumped into Agan and THE Ka, but they weren't too happy to see me. "You know, it's not random that we're walking just by the two of us and the others are elsewhere. We wanted to have some private time to talk," Agan told me while Ka smiled apologetically. I rolled my eyes at her and commented: "Sorry to have ruined your secret romantic walk then." I did not part company with them and all the three of us walked together to our new apartment where the others were waiting for us.

[THE Ka]

There was salted liquorice all over the valley. "I'm going to collect that candy," Legate announced.

Oh god I think I remember that stuff. My grandpa made me eat it... Then I'd hide it under my tongue and my grandma would let me spit it out later. I only have bad memories of it because my grandpa let it sit around for waaaaay too long, then somehow thought it was just the right time to eat it. :( I dunno if I can repair my image of salted liquorice ever again.

"You know, it's not random that we're walking just by the two of us and the others are elsewhere. We wanted to have some private time to talk," Agan told me while Ka smiled apologetically. I rolled my eyes at her and commented: "Sorry to have ruined your secret romantic walk then." I did not part company with them and all the three of us walked together to our new apartment where the others were waiting for us.

How many people were you planning on fitting into that apartment?

Y'know, that's not too far off really. She's been slowly convincing me to move to Finland, and I think it's working a bit. Before I was in a limbo deciding whether I liked Norway, Sweden or Argentina more, but hmmm. She's a convincing travel agent, but I'd only do it to hang out with you bunch all the time, plus I'm rather tired and bored with the US.

Though, I'd never live in Paris. I only want to die there. :)

You're dream was amazing my dear, simply ab fab.

~ Ka

[Aganzir]

I don't know what kind of salted liquorice your grandpa has fed you, but it's lovely, really. At least in Finland. ;)
I made Kath, tgwbs and Mith try it when I met them in London (we found a shop which sold all kinds of foreign candy, Finnish salted liquorice included) and at least Kath and tgwbs didn't find it that bad (or then they were just polite :p).
I can buy you some when you come to Finland, or bring with me if I meet you somewhere outside Finland. :p You don't have to eat it if you don't want to, though.

I thought this dream was too small to post as this is about the only part I remember of it, but since I'm posting here now anyway, I can write it, too.
Last night I had a dream Rune went through a cosmetic surgery because he wanted to look like Paris Hilton. He then posted a photo of himself on the Downs and everybody agreed that the result was very Paris Hilton-like.

[Oddwen]

I had a dream last night that I had an overflow of requests on my Facebook, mostly from Lommy, Greenie and Brinn. The ones from Lommy & Greenie were all either in incomprehensible Finnish characters or about a very obscure Finnish item, while I think one of them may have hacked Brinn's account because hers were the same.

Apparently, a tiny ankh-shaped twig with which you catapult tiny stones is called a "death stick", while Finns regularly take trees and split them down the middle like an onion blossom for their children to have birthday parties on.

[Eönwë]

Last night I had a dream Rune went through a cosmetic surgery because he wanted to look like Paris Hilton. He then posted a photo of himself on the Downs and everybody agreed that the result was very Paris Hilton-like.

I'm guessing you ran out of smilies by this tome in your post. ;)

[Aganzir]

I'm guessing you ran out of smilies by this tome in your post. ;)
The dream didn't amuse me so much that I would have needed smilies.
Mainly because imagining Rune as a girl is such an everyday thing for me.

[Mithalwen]

I don't know what kind of salted liquorice your grandpa has fed you, but it's lovely, really. At least in Finland. ;)
I made Kath, tgwbs and Mith try it when I met them in London (we found a shop which sold all kinds of foreign candy, Finnish salted liquorice included) and at least Kath and tgwbs didn't find it that bad (or then they were just polite :p).
though.

.

It wasn't unpleasant at all but tasted slightly medicinal (though I am not sure I can judge accurately since I had a bad ENT infection at the time and nothing tasted quite right). I think it is just a strange idea to have salty sweets.

[Groin Redbeard]

I dreamt last night that Gwathagor kept following me around. He was wearing a black fedora and was in hunters attire (he looked very much like Theodore Roosevelt:)). When I confronted him he jumped into some bushes and started whispering, "You can't see me, you can't see me." I finally got tired of him following me around and confronted him a second time, but this time he started waving his new found gun and doing his best impersination of Mr. Heston's famous words: "From my cold dead hands."

There are many other wierd things that happened in the dream but only one other part conscerns the Downers. In the dream I went to a Country Music concert, but it soon turned into a cage fight between Chuck Norris versus Rune and Legate. Rune kept got beaten to a pulp after shouting, "For the mother land!" and Legate kept on whimpering and trying to get out of the ring. :D:D After the fight we all watched Chuck Norris bench-press a C-5 Galaxy.

[Gwathagor]

I dreamt last night that Gwathagor kept following me around. He was wearing a black fedora and was in hunters attire (he looked very much like Theodore Roosevelt:)). When I confronted him he jumped into some bushes and started whispering, "You can't see me, you can't see me." I finally got tired of him following me around and confronted him a second time, but this time he started waving his new found gun and doing his best impersination of Mr. Heston's famous words: "From my cold dead hands."

I'm afraid I must not make a very good impression here on the Downs.

[Groin Redbeard]

I'm afraid I must not make a very good impression here on the Downs.

Face it Gwathagor, you are doing too well a job here on the Downs!:D

[Gwathagor]

:smokin:

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I had a snippet of a dream last night.

I was reading the werewolf game, and for some reason had decided it was time to post, Night was over, so I typed up this really long post, sent it, looked back up, and had crossed with Fea who had written my death. Curiously, I wasn't Shasta, though, I was some other name that I don't remember, but I recognized it as me. :eek:

[Thinlómien]

I have a couple fo dreams I haven't reported. Mainly, something about me talking in MSN with Shasta and Volo stealing gull's eggs and then a downer dream involving cannibalism but I'm not sure I want to elaborate on that... :eek: ;)

[Groin Redbeard]

This wasn't so much a dream as an hallucination. I was just getting out of bed, I stayed up late that night so I was very groggy, and I thought I saw Gollum the Great grinning at me through my window!:eek: It's not a face that I'd like to wake up to again.:D

[Gollum the Great]

This wasn't so much a dream as an hallucination. I was just getting out of bed, I stayed up late that night so I was very groggy, and I thought I saw Gollum the Great grinning at me through my window!:eek: It's not a face that I'd like to wake up to again.:D

Now That's freaky.
Assuming you mean my avatar, I don't blame you. Though to be honest I love that picture, I thought CGI/Andy Serkis Gollum was pretty good.

[Groin Redbeard]

Now That's freaky.
Assuming you mean my avatar, I don't blame you. Though to be honest I love that picture, I thought CGI/Andy Serkis Gollum was pretty good.

Yes it was your avvie.:D It is a good picture for Gollum, the best I've seen, but it doesn't look good pasted against my window!:D

[Eönwë]

Last night I had a Barrow-Downs Dream.

I don't know how it got to it, but I was sitting somewhere high up watching Gollum get executed. It was sort of a grassy area with big cliffs (or were they walls?) on all sides forming a square. I must have been on one of them, but I didn't actually see myself on them, I was just looking at what was happening below. Then suddenly an army of Nogrods came, six abreast in endless ranks, out of a hole in the wall. Then I could see that they had frmed a |- shape (the - is the Nogrods six abreast, the | is the army forming behind it). And then for some reson, in was down there, and saw them marching in my direction shouting "Gentiles! Gentiles!" I managed to get to Gollum(who had turned into Gollum, and looked a bit like this (http://www.ifc.com/ifc/img/310x229_lethimhaveit.jpg) (the one on the centre-right, but without a broken arm) and the executioner, who was Volo.

We seemed to all be friends, despite the events moments before. Then we scrambled through the ranks of Nogrods, who had already come upon us but didn't try to get us, theough they almost trampled us. We got out through a passage with white walls and white electric light, but then the ceiling seemed to open, and we were up to our shoulders in water. Then we walked through it, but th e current pushed us along very fast, and we ended up in a pool. It was more like a lake. A huge lake. Suddenly it zoomed out, and you could see us as tiny dots on the edge of the huge body of water. When I say huge I mean a blue whale could swim there and not get bored. I even fancied I could see some below at that point. I was also around 3km deep.

Then it zoomed in on us and I was me again. For some reason, none of us could swim and it didn't even seem like there was that option. We padddled with our arms and legs upright. We seemed to get to the other side very quickly, considering what we were doing ( I was just around 80m from the side I came from when I was suddenly around 50m from the other side). Then we scrambled up an interesting-looking cliff face on the other side (It had all sorts of strangely shaped edges, and bits of rock were sticking out in all sorts of strange shapes (for example snake-ish, branch and leave-ish and mushroom-ish). In some places (not where I was climbing) actually looked a lot like this (http://www.morpheusmuseum.com/contemp/giger/index.htm) (click on the green one- but it looked more light brown in the dream) We clambered onto these pod things. they were oval shaped, sticking out of the cliff and attached by a thin bit of rock. It had also sorts of slimy plants hanging down and streams of water dripping down. it was like the back of a waterfall (though damper) but without the waterfall. There was also a bita crevice in the rock wall slightly above were the pods were attached, which was 3m below us, filled with sharp rocks and a smakk stream, which also dripped down into the main lake.

I forget what happened next, but I remember that afterwards I remember that there was a life threatening problem, and the only way to stop it was to put Volo in the "cage" for five minutes, which was a large (hippo-sized) metal bowl attached to thr rock face in the same way we were, but was around 4m belw us. Volo tied 3 ropes around himself and tied the other end of one around the rock that was holding his "pod" to the cliff, and threw the others to me and Gollum. Then hejumped down, but we saw that we had seen the "cage" from a strange angle and only Volo's legs from foot to knee knees fitted in. Suddenly the "cage" started twisting around, until Volo was upside down, but his legs were so firmly wedged in that he didn't fall out of it. Gollum let go of his rope, and, trying to save Volo, jumped down. He missed, and I just managed to grab his flailing hand before it was too late and he fell into the "lake/pool". We were really high up, and our view of it was obstructed by mist which hid the long distance below. i managed to swing him up, onto patch of flat land, that could only be entered through a small gap in the rock (but easily from above).

Then suddenly we weere back on the pods, but this time we were back near the other side of the "lake" thing. We jumped off, and landed around 30m away from the tunnel through which we had come from) and suddenly we saw how huge the "lake" was, and it streched out for miles behind us. The "pod" things were gone. We paddled to the tunnel entrance, through hundreds of people also trying to et through and avoiding those coming out. Eventually, a current pushed us and we were back in the tunnel like at the beginning, shoulder-deep in the water. But this time it was a cave tunnel, with a ceiling of rock, lit by candles. And we carried on until there was no more water, and we were in an earthen hand-dug tunnel, lit this time by flaming torches. It didn't have the white walls of before. And we continued, and we saw that it was like a building, and there were doors and passages everywhere. One even led into a computer room, much like one I have in my school. Then we entered into a kitchen.

People were rushing past us, shouting, "The Tyrannosaurus is coming!". Neverthesless we carried on, until we saw its huge ugly head coming towards us. It was then that I tried to end the dream, to avoid being eaten in it. So I tried to open my eyes but only managed one. Then, since I knew it was a dream, I tried some lucid dreaming and tried to get a chair to appear. I managed to get a wooden chair attached to a shelf full of mini Ghanaian stools (e.g. this (http://www.creationafrica.com/images/side%20images/artist/portfolio_queen.jpg)) instead. I threw it right at its eye and hit its closed eyelid but managed to hid behind a pillar before it could see me. Then I tried again, bt this time it came towards me. I ran towards the other side of the room. Then I tried to wake up again, but failed. As I came back into it, thining I would be eaten, I heard Volo say "Look at it eat that barrel of tuna" and then Gollum say "Yeah, those T-Rexes love tuna". I saw the Tyrannosaurus turn its head to look at me. It locked me in its glare like Glaurung and and ran towards me.
Then I woke up (before when I thought I had woken up I hadn't actually).

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Wow that was a long post!


PS. I think I should have saved some words for writing for rpgs instead of here. ;)


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Things I have learned from this:

I am the Downs too much :D
e.g. That strange green painting thing, and suddenly comparing the Nogrod chant to this (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ5Tp97UgyQ) (0:35-0:40). I never listen to that sort of music, but I heard it from going on Pop Culture Translator which I found out about from here (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=497435&postcount=15)

I am definately on the Downs too much!:smokin:

[Nerwen]

Well, compared to Ste– er, I mean, Eönwë's dream, mine was rather tame (I seem to have a rather dull subconscious). I dreamt we were having a live-action WW game in my house. The wolves had to put on wolf-costumes at Night, walk on all fours and actually bite their victims. The victims were allowed to fight back. It got quite violent.

[Volo]

That sure sounds like a wonderful dream! The details and all, wow. Actually weird, since Gollum is still my second personality from Rikae's WW.

My dream's level of epicness was restricted to me being a reincarnating dragon, being chased by agents and my school having a bigger stage and stand than any other place I've visited. Unrelated.

[Eönwë]

The wolves had to put on wolf-costumes at Night, walk on all fours and actually bite their victims.

Owww!

or rather: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooooowwwwwww!

[Nerwen]

Indeed.... just before I awoke, Mithwolf had my leg and I was trying to fend her off with the tubing from the vacuum cleaner.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Whoa, Eönwë... I wonder if I can recall reading a similarly complex and weird dream here on the Downs (okay, I can think of a few similar ones, but not sure about them reaching such length... at least in description). That was really... interesting. Though first of all you made me think of Jurassic Park (meaning now the original book, not the film) - because of the T-rex but also that lake thing (which, if I recall, was only in the book... I thought of it possibly because of these two things being together in one dream).

Indeed.... just before I awoke, Mithwolf had my leg and I was trying to fend her off with the tubing from the vacuum cleaner.
Now that must have been fun! :D

[Thinlómien]

I had a definitely weird dream last night. In it, we decided to make a time jump of 15 years in the Scarburg Meadhall RPG. I took a new character after the time jump, it was a 15-year old girl called Branwen and she was the bastard daughter of Rowenna, a current character of LMP's. Also, LMP was leaving the 'downs and thus he made farewell poems to everybody on the discussion thread. He started with me. I don't remember much of it, except that he urged me to learn Czech in the poem. Also, he used a :Merisu: smiley in his post, but it was a special new Merisu, and when she was fluttering her eyelashes, there were tears coming fom her eyes. (It was a brilliant smiley, by the way. Someone could make one like that. :Merisu: )

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Tonight, I had a dream of which I unfortunately don't remember many details, for it was very epic. I was with a roleplaying group and at the same time being one of the characters of the group, while the other characters and players were several of my RL RPGing friends, then Gollum, Lommy, The Might, Nerwen, Ibri (those two may have changed into each other at several places), Groin and possibly skip or Morthoron (these two might have switched places with some of my RL friends during the course of the dream).

The story was that we were going through some dungeon full of stairs and stairways, if anybody of you had seen the movie Labyrinth with David Bowie, then the final scene is something what it looked like. At last we came to some boss of the dungeon, who was an evil sorcerer no doubt, and he was standing next to a trap door easily visible in front of him on the ground. We attacked him, namely Groin attacked him ruthlessly with his axe, if I recall well. The Might tried to sneak attack him from behind, but before he could do that, the sorcerer disappeared in the trap door. Meanwhile, Nerwen/Ibri had been casting some spell which caused sparkling white light to come out of her hands. I have no idea what effect it was supposed to have :D

After that, everybody started to panic and run away around the dungeon in search for the sorcerer. Somehow, most of the party ended running down a long spiral stairway (or, actually, this kind of starway where you run down a straight corridor, then turn around 180° and run another straight stair, and so on... just, like, it wasn't all merely one long stair). When I noticed, I started to run after them, but still I was the last one, right behind Lommy who also stayed behind before, to reach the room which was to the side of the stairway (it still continued down). The trap door through which the sorcerer disappeared was right above us, in the ceiling of the room, and there was another trap door below us, into a large room with some stairs, too. Everybody was already inside it, kind of hanging down into it (holding each other, and the last one was holding the floor of this room). They obviously climbed down there willingly, to go after the sorcerer, who was pleading for mercy (honestly, as it seemed) and it was about our choice to kill him or not. Then for a short moment we were as players in a room decorated by lots and lots of flowers, and the Gamemaster said: "Well, so what, do you kill him?" And us players started to argue whether he is just bluffing or whether he is seriously pleading for mercy, and whether our characters would keep him alive, etc. And then, we did not reach any conclusion, but decided to let it come out as it goes, and then we were back in the dungeon and Gollum, who was the one at the top of the people in the trap door (and his character was Gollum, really looked like that) reached out his arms and handed me a bucket of flowers which somebody else from the group took from the ceiling of the room (the flowers were like the ones that were in the room in which we played), and I was supposed to give them to the sorcerer, which meant that we are giving mercy to him.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Ha! Seems like I'm having a real BD-dream time after a long while, this far I had three dreams involving Downers in a row. How much I remember from it is a different thing, but at least the dream I had today was certainly interesting.

In it, I learned (probably from some newspaper or some web pages) that Ron Perlman actually went into a "retirement", and he joined the Downs a while ago, of course without revealing his identity here, so that he is not bothered by possible fans. I was trying to figure out who he is, UNFORTUNATELY, ;) I don't recall who the first and very probable option was. Maybe if I look at the member list I'll remember who of you he is ;) I recall, though, that closer to the end of the dream I figured out that he may also be McCaber. Whoever Ron Perlman was, though, I was going to write him a PM to say how I like him as actor, though I wanted to write it the way so that I don't scare him too much or annoy him because he would know he has been revealed.

So, Ron, no hard feelings ;)

And just for clarification, I have seen Ron Perlman in about two films, possibly, during all my life, and it is interesting he appeared in the dream. On the other hand, when thinking about it, if I were to pick a good actor, he could be an option...

[Oddwen]

I had a dream a couple of nights ago in which MatthewM was an aspiring filmmaker. I wish I could remember the really clever plot twist in a little vampire movie he did, because even I who don't like vampires thought it was really original.

[Aganzir]

I had a dream I and a big bunch of people broke into an Australian art museum. Someone asked if it was legal, and I replied, "Surely more legal than Lindale breaking into museums and destroying paintings. She painted on Mona Lisa."

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I had a dream last night that had The Phantom, Fea and my self as stars. People like Nogrod, Lommy and others also appeared, but only played minor parts.

For some reason some downers where hanging out in my flat, which had grown to tripple sieze and was nicely cleaned. The Phantom sad in a chair looking like he does on the photo page, just a bit less attractive, Fea and Nogrod was in the other end of the room. I walked over and sat next to The Phantom and we started talking about one of my Leonard Cohen LP's, after a while The Phantom changes the subject to werewolf. It turns out that he starting a new game where you are only allowed to base your theories on what people have said in earlier games and as he says "The only weakness is that it does not allow any newbies to play"

We continue to talk about his game for a while until Nogrod comes over and starts complaining about being at my place, because "It would be much better if we held this downer-gathering in Finland" then Lommy bursts in to the room and tells Nogrod that he has got to come and see something in the other building, the other building turns out to be a house identical to the one I live in. . .apparently I had let it be build so that I could house downers when they come to visit.

Me, Fea and The Phantom all sit down at the table talking and they reveal to me that they have me all figured out, they know that some of the stuff I have said during their stay, I have just said to seem cool and that it is slightly pathetic that I want them to like me so badly. I get quite upset by this, but I agree with them that I to some degree have tried to impress them. The door opens and two really blond guys walk into the room, put some music on and starts dancing. I walk over to them and ask them what they are doing here, after much debating they tell me that they know Fea and apparently met her on a trip to Chicago a few years ago. These guys spend quite some time talking about how amazing a person Fea is and then they leave.

The three of us left decides that we want to hit the town and leaves the house, but we end up in some weird fantasy world instead. We are at some old castle that is almost falling appart, here me, The Phantom and some of my co-workers have to hunt down and kill some trolls. Before we start the hunt we get some swords. . .(I don't remember much of what happens here). . . In the end I slay the last troll and climb down a wall that suddenly crumbles under me, luckely I did not fall far. Now that the trolls have been killed some of my co-workers asks me and The Phantom "who is that girl" and points to Fea who is standing on a hill top, we tell them that she is a friend and they should leave her alone. In the end all three of us walk back to the house holding each others hands.

[Thinlómien]

Three recent BD dreams of mine...

1) Agan and I visited Shasta. He told us about his family history (his parents were Finnish but in fact he was the bastard child of his father and a woman from Thailand) and borrowed us some nice gothic women's clothes. He had lots of them in his closets because he had a habit of dressing up as a woman, at least partly because of theatre.

2) Lal and davem had a cute baby daughter. I was supposed to look after her. When I had been talking to her for a rather long time, I realised I had spoken Finnish and the baby wouldn't understand anything of it. "Sorry," I told her, "I should have spoken English all along." She looked at me and talked in a childish but perfectly understandable voice: "No, speak Finnish. I like it." I wondered if the girl would be bilingual before long. Anyway, she was a sweet girl and she first called me "friend" and then "sister" which was rather cute. :D

3) Legate was making food (making fish sandwiches, actually) in the kitchen at my dad's place. He asked me to come there. I went and took a glass of water for myself. We were in the kitchen and talking, I was occasionally taking a sip from my glass. Suddenly, Rune (who was wearing black eyeliner) came to the kitchen. He said: "Hey, is it ok for you guys if I go out now? I just met some nice English girls and I'd like to hang around with them... I'll be back for dinner." "Of course, go on," Legate replied, but I bursted laughing so that I spluttered all the water from my mouth on my clothes. Rune and Legate exchanged worried glances. "What's wrong with her?" Rune asked.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I think my question is still valid. . . what is wrong with her?

[Aganzir]

I had a dream Brinn and Boro thought they were werewolves and killed a little boy riding a tricycle by smashing an axe through his head at a shopping mall. It was a rather gory dream.

[Boromir88]

That has got to be one of the greatest (yet most disturbing) dreams I have ever heard being in. Wow, what does that say about the image people have of me? Going through a mall and smashing little kids on tricycles, with an axe...I love it. :p

[Aganzir]

Also, the boy was blind.

It might also tell something about me and my subconscious, given that there are some dreams I have deliberately decided not to post but one this brutal ended up here. ;)

[Brinniel]

Aganzir deserves a trophy for her dream. :smokin: