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I do too, at least when they are on screen/in books. I think in reality, if I were actually going to "love" any pirates, they'd have to take a shower first razz

Last night's dream:

The beginning is fuzzy...the first concrete thing that I remember, Kaiba is furious with Jounouchi, Otogi and Honda (Actually, I can't remember if it's Honda, but I'm just going to go with that as he seems the best fit in that trio, at least to me). Swearing revenge, Kaiba enlists the help of Manmeet (a friend of mine in real life, whom I haven't even talked to in awhile, and has probably only vaguely even heard of Yu-gi-oh - so quite a random choice here) in order to enact his revenge upon them. Manmeet hunts down Otogi and Honda, and it's assumed she maims and or does other horrible things to them. Kaiba corners Jounouchi at the top of a cliff, with a knife, and threatens to end his life. Yet as he goes in for the kill, he finds himself unable to go through with it. He drops the knife and sinks to his knees sobbing.
At which point Jounouchi shoves Kaiba to the ground, which then materilizes into a bed for some reason, and proceeds to have forcible intercourse with him. Kaiba meekly protests verbally, but seems to not have the energy to fight back physically. Despite his agitation, Kaiba still manages to become aroused, and moments after his release, Jounouchi climaxes and then...

I wake up.

I'm pretty sure I am not satisfied with that ending, but it was still kinda awesome. I also don't remember what the three of them did to piss Kaiba off, though I do know the dream started at that point. Oh well, mostly I'm just confused on how Manmeet got in there...and then I kinda wonder what she did to Otogi and Honda. Granted if it went down in anyway similar to what happened between Jounouchi and Kaiba I'm glad it was omitted, that would be more of Manmeet than I'd ever want to see ^_~. Also, I'm sure the dream was animated, but I'm pretty sure Manmeet wasn't...not sure how that played out. The only visual I can sort of conjure up has Manmeet alone in a zoo (well, she's planning with Kaiba but he's out of sight). That's also weird.

I had a creeptacular dream as well, I think after that? Maybe before. However it's not YGO related so I shan't prattle on about it here.

This was probably the most explicit dream I've ever remembered - reality/fiction/etc. Even that mastershipping one I had back in summer wasn't very detailed. It was rather awesome, both in content, as well as in it being a bit of a first.

Too bad it was a tad superseded by the creepy one, which I don't remember enough of now to detail or else I'd consider it. But yea, it's kind of funny how you mention that "absolute fear" detail - because that's exactly how I felt. I woke up at 6:21am this morning pretty damn terrified. It was really hard to get back to sleep. I was tense and afraid, wishing I had a lock on my door, and debating barricading it. Not the first time I've felt that way. My dream was kinda zombie like, not exactly, but that's what it had me thinking. Ugh...I'd like more YGO dreams, less zombie ones!! Friggin zombie phobia ~_~.

The dream wasn't as bad as this one time though, when I was just lying in bed thinking about zombies. In my mind, I kind of have the whole zombie deal tied in with "judgment day," since that's what a lot of the genre does. Again I haven't ever reconciled where I lie in terms of faith (definitely nowhere near reconciling any sort of opinion on religion, much less specific religion), but I guess I believe that there is something. Even if I can't know what, or commit to what I feel about it. Anyhow that all aside, I was kind of in some weird mood where I felt "the end was near," or something, I dunno. So it's about 5-6am, I'm lying in bed, listening to the fan (I sleep with the fan on 365 days a year, it's the noise not the air that I need) praying "don't let it be the last day" in kind of a mantra chant. All of a sudden the power goes out! Fan sound dies, all clock lights and what not fade. I FREAKED the heck out. It was bad bad bad! Almost had a heart attack I swear!

Everything powered back on about a minute later, however I was severely shaken. No more sleep that night, I turned on the TV and watched cartoons until it was late enough to actually get up. In my mind, if the dead had arisen, TV programming would reflect that...O_o.

Yea, I know, I'm totally nuts, crazy ridiculous phobia stressed . Oh well, at least I get interesting stories out of it ~_~.

No no no. You're not a terrible person for dreaming that. You are a terrible person for stopping there. See next we have Otogi randomly show up with...hahaha j/k j/k razz

Yea I'm kind of the opposite, not giving into the whole Freddy deal, even if sleep is scary I feel safe there. If something is going to get me it'll be here, so I'm always waiting for the impossible manifestation of the horrific. My dreams aren't even logical mostly - like a guy in a parking lot could feasible happen in real life, then my logic might be plausible. However zombies/ghosts moonlighting as psychopathic serial killers?! What are the chances? Still I cringe. In spite of all that, my dreams are rather lucid, and anything I really object to in the dream state I can usually alter, the problem is if things get too bad I'll wake up.

I rarely dream (well I rarely remember them), I'll have strings of them sporadically (probably because of stress?) and then I'll have none for months to years (lately it's been months, but it used to be years). However yea, it also makes me a light sleeper when I do. I mean you dream in REM, which is the lightest sleep stage anyhow, so it seems natural that if you have a lot of activity therein (enough that you become conscious it outside of the dream even) you'd more easily spill out.

Magical flying arms sound creepy, hahaha...trying to picture that. Of course I'm picturing that as via my HS woodwinds section coach, bad choice stupid brain!! She had that gastric bypass deal my senior year, so she had a lot of loose skin, particularly on her arms. So when she'd conduct, it looked like she was trying to fly away. It was rather unattractive ~_~.

I don't usually fall back asleep. I usually take hours to fall asleep in general, so there rarely is enough time for my mind to rationalize letting me go back to sleep. I just "rest" and daydream. That would be pretty awful though, continually falling into nightmares and being jettisoned out of them. Good thing you don't have to put up with that too often.

I probably had because we've talked about zombies on this thread before, and that's my most epic zombie tale... razz . But yea wasn't sure, and seemed related, and still scary ~_~. But yea, I definitely needed to stay awake to see daylight before I could be comfortable with the idea of sleeping again.

The zombie virus is usually how I imagine it as well, and go ahead with whatever you were going to say. I mean in spite of my phobia I still delve into the genre a ridiculously high amount. I'm obsessed with my own discomfort, haha. Though usually things that set me off are random, not even conversations or references. Usually panic attacks are what spur the conversations or interest to go see a movie. I have been dying to find 28 Weeks Later lately, I've seen Days lately, even more since the last round of nightmares. I also want to see Saw V. I know the 28 series was a "rage" virus, but it's pretty similar in effect to zombie viruses. Although actually, not quite as fearsome, and I did wonder what would happen if everyone was infected. Because the infected did seem to retain cognizance, and only seemed to attack the uninfected. So would everything be "normal" after mass infection? Anyhow idk, and again, still need to see that sequel.

So yea, I agree that the viral effect is plausible, though I'd like to ignore that, hahaha...but go ahead and say whatever point you were going to make. See if it's different from my own thoughts and references.

Also, two nights ago after TAS 46 and talking about superheros on one of the game threads, I had this ridiculous dream. It had The Joker, Noa as some whacked out super villain (costumed and with powers - which makes sense), and my friend Tricia who was suppose to be the superhero but didn't feel like it. I can't remember enough to detail it. It was set in a hotel, a lot of explosions and action centralized around the elevator. Anyhow yea, weird and totally reference inspired, kinda like dreams like that though.

Save him? Why would he want to do that?! Hehehe... xp

Oh I get how they are equally scary in the dream world. It's just upon entering the waking world the serial killer would in theory be a bit more worrisome than zombies. Because thus far, serial killers are somewhat prevalent in society (unfortunately), while zombie are not (and I hope it stays that way for the entirety of my life). Yet the few "feasible" nightmares I've had, I'm pretty calm upon waking. I guess in part, if there really was a murderer or something "realistic" trying to get me, I'd have some idea of how to combat it. It's more difficult to figure out how to combat the unknown within the confines of reality, so the terror just remains because I can't rationally plan out a solid defense against the supernatural.

When I was a kid I had reoccurring dreams like that - well, nightmares - like that. One was monster related, and not that scary, too over the top. The other involved me running down everyone I loved with a car (but I couldn't stop), after which I'd be in front of the car trying to escape certain smush, until it ran me off a cliff (where I presumably fell to my death). I've become sort of opposite to my childhood self. Although I still never dreamed that often. I think it might be because I don't sleep regularly or often, messes up all my cycles and rhythms. I wish I dreamed more, and could jump back into some dreams weeks later. I know other people who do that, and I did used to do that when I was a kid, so it's not all that weird. Just most people probably don't dream like that.

Hahaha, I know what you meant, it just made me think of that teacher, and how my friends and I made flying jokes. Ah what cruel teenagers we were ~_~.

Yea, as soon as I'm awake I start sleeping like crazy, I think if I really tried I could maybe fall back asleep like that, but my brain just likes to think about things too much.

Yea, I agree...it just completely pulled away from the original protagonists and storyline. And the end made no sense. The military thing also makes me think of the original Dawn of the Dead, which is set on a military base (unlike the new one who is focused on civilians in a mall) and there is only like one woman and they get dangerously close to becoming rape camp. Weeks looks better though, and hopefully it is, but regardless I want to see it anyhow because I feel in the middle of something.

Hmm, never heard that, not sure, that doesn't really creep me out as much. I guess yea because that's more "walking dead" than "viral infection," and it's more the fear of becoming a zombie than actual zombies that terrifies me. I think it wouldn't play out the way it does in movies either, it just doesn't seem a biological likelihood that THAT would be the primary effect. Or that it would be irreversible considering. Hopefully I never have to find out how my theories would play out one way or the other though, just in case I'm wrong. ^_~

Hahaha...it was sorta SSA...don't remember enough to say that for sure though.

Oh you logical person you. Haha, it is never logical to think zombies are going to suddenly attack, but I guess that's the thing, I just can't grasp logic alone at night in the dark. It makes complete sense to worry about falling back into nightmares, that's what NORMAL people do. I guess I just find being normal vastly overrated ^_~.

It was, especially considering I was like 7 - 9 when I had it.

Hmm...I've always wondered what déjà vu felt like, I've never felt awake or in my sleep. When I was little I was never aware that I was even dreaming, and I never had any sense that I'd been in that situation before, until I woke up. Then I always knew it was "that" dream again.

Also Days had an alternate ending which was even weirder I think, at the moment I barely remember either ending (just that they were both weird), and can't even remember which one is canon. But yea, if I see Weeks anytime soon I'll let you know if it's any better, maybe I'll search for it on Megavideo and deal with the watching it in parts annoyance. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow if I don't have to work.

Yea...zombie movies need to come up with some better titles, it's getting too confusing.

Haha...yea, that story did sound kind of urban legend. Like if it hadn't concluded with the lifeguard shooting him in the head, that's what really killed it. I mean in spring/summer I am a lifeguard, and you know what, we don't get to carry guns. We get whistles, a tube, and a pack filled with bandaids, gloves and breathing masks. No guns. The lifeguard whose packing is more far fetched then the rising bloated beached body, hahahaha.

You should read it, my fail list is way too long and I'll probably never bother putting that on there, but I had a friend who read and liked it. If you have time it'll probably be worthwhile.

Yea, but I hate being illogical ever, it's so...illogical ^_~.

I wouldn't say that it happens to everyone, so I wouldn't find it odd for someone to say they ever experienced. I think to feel déjà vu someone would have to have a certain level of consciousness. If their level of awareness was too low they wouldn't be conscious enough of their surroundings to notice subtle repetitions or familiarities - imagined or otherwise. If they were hyper aware, they would immediately remember any circumstance that invoked that feeling or remembrance. I mean it's just a feeling, I'd say it's more common to never feel it than to do so.

I will let you know, but I slept so late I forgot I meant to watch it today, haha, so maybe sometime over the weekend...~_~. I watched Ever After (which I have on DVD) instead.

Aww, but I loved the packing lifeguard! That is awesome!! Hmm...gunna make a poem, or comic, or something that has an armed lifeguard in it! I can't let it go now!! razz

You should definitely do that.

I think I lean more towards the right, but I think I've been a fair split myself.

Haha...sorry, I haven't been in a movie mood at all, which is why I am just not getting on that Weeks deal. *sigh*...my mom is going to go see The Music Man with friends Sunday, so maybe whilst puttering around alone I'll actually get around to it then. Or at least my fanfic... razz

Speaking of lifeguarding, I'm supposed to be doing s**t for the website at my swim club...gah! It's also hard to be motivated to work when I'm not being paid, hahaha. Oh well, almost done with that project, the worst part was writing staff bios and got that done over break. Just need to hunt down photographs now...rather arm wrestle some folks into giving me photos (or threatening to use yearbook photos...muwhahaha!!). But yea, gotta love a guard with a gun. I have a feeling I'll get fired if I start carrying one myself though...^_~.