Repeat or Replay?

[triadruid]

Obviously it'll be a little hard to tell, but if anyone knows if I'm somehow specifically pulling this dream from an external source, I'd be very grateful. You see, I've had, with minor differences, the exact same dream, several years ago.

The primary point of the dream seems to involve the blurring of lines between fantasy and reality. It starts with me playing a D&D-like game (Gauntlet, maybe, except I haven't played that in years) with a small group of friends - 4, possibly? - and then the game becoming real. There's a much larger group of OTHER gamers at the door in a lynch-mob mood, because they're after our Amazon. Not sure if it's for sexual purposes, as she's the fairest of us all, or some game-plot reason.

In any case, it comes to pass that our group is competent and theirs...not so much. What follows is a broad series of Army of Dead-style physical humor/horror bits, wherein we lead our hapless foes into an onslaught of arrows, draw them into the house one by one for 'autographs' or some similarly inane pretext, and generally decimate their numbers. By the end of the 'battle' (slaughter might be a better word for it), there ends up being just two of us, me and the Amazon, huddled under the dining room table as the lynch mob decides to quietly fade away. They don't know our numbers are reduced too, and they've apparently decided She's Not Worth It. We come out from hiding and decide to do something involving less swords and sorcery... (no, not that... I mean like put together a puzzle).

Almost scene for scene, that seems to be a repeat of a dream I had a half-dozen years ago, maybe even a decade. The only major difference seems to be that this time the initial game involved somehow creating a tile 'gameboard' that became more photorealistic as the game became real, but I *know* where that part came from: playing Civilization II again lately, and designing scenarios for it. But the thought occurs to me that if I'm replaying the same scenes, maybe they're not my scenes... maybe I'm remembering a book or movie or something.

Anyway, thought it couldn't hurt to ask...

Comments

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

It doesn't ring bells for me, but perhaps if you turned it into a story yourself it would stop bothering you, and steven spielberg could do the movie and we could all say "we knew you when."

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I would, except the story sucks. it'd be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer at best, and I don't think I can countenance that...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Game anxiety about Friday? Who'da thunk it?
The story doesn't ring any resemblances for me, and I'm usually really good at pulling out themes and similarities. I do, however, fear hordes of gamers at the door. I think that part's archetypal.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Except for the part where you and kittenpants are totally worth it.

I see a faint shadow of Jumanji in there somewhere, but that's all.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure it's not us.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I was just saying.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Err?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

The Amazon you were protecting.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Like I told somebody else in a prior dream post, it's very rare that my dreams-with-a-plotline have people I can recognize as being actual people I know; even when I *know* they are Mr. X, it's not because they look like Mr. X...

That being said, why are *you* sure it wasn't you? I mean, you've played with longbows more than anybody in our house, for one...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it wasn't either of us because if it was, you'd have said so. Aside from which, we don't seem to normally appear in your dreams (or at least, not the ones you talk about).

[azanthia.livejournal.com]

Hi there :)

non-related to the current post, but you and the household may appreciate this poly-related post from a friend:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/okelle/46626.html

Hope you're well!

Love,
me