Cinematic Dreaming

[davidgillon]

I've been stumbling around in need of sleep for the last couple of days and 4 hours between 10PM and 2AM isn't going to help, but may at least reset me to being awake during daylight hours (and is handy as I need to get over to my GP's in the morning). The two hours of that on the couch did however lead to a dream in which I was being chased through a castle?/labyrinth?/secret lair filled with pseudo-medievalesque aliens/monsters. It had more of an action movie than a horror feel to it and I found it interesting that my brain is clearly composing scenes based on the norms of cinema - you had the stair chase, with the long shot vertically down the stairwell at the pursuers on lower levels, and the kitchen chase, where the pursuee is perpetually just that little ahead of the pursuers as they weave in and out of the hordes of kitchen staff. I'd guess the spark for it was playing XCOM and reading up on the Mass Effect universe, but the way the brain pulls stuff together from all sorts of disparate sources is fascinating.

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[sovay]

It had more of an action movie than a horror feel to it and I found it interesting that my brain is clearly composing scenes based on the norms of cinema - you had the stair chase, with the long shot vertically down the stairwell at the pursuers on lower levels, and the kitchen chase, where the pursuee is perpetually just that little ahead of the pursuers as they weave in and out of the hordes of kitchen staff.

That is neat. Do you have consistent dream cinematography?

[davidgillon]

I'd say my dreams, at least the ones I remember, tend to be film-like the overwhelming majority of the time, though that's the first time I remember the actual structure of the shots standing out.

I don't seem to do slice-of-life style dreams, they're always either thriller/action or SFF. The last one I remember before this was Cthulhu in Space - "There's a shoggoth in the shuttle bay, should I use the shuttle to nudge it out?"

[sovay]

"There's a shoggoth in the shuttle bay, should I use the shuttle to nudge it out?"

I approve.

[lilysea]

*solidarity*

on the weird sleep -

the past few nights I've gotten to sleep at

5am
5am
3am
and 4:40am

respectively...

[davidgillon]

Sigh, that sounds familiar.

*Solidarity back*