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Dreams/nightmares about shmups?

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So as the title suggests, I was wondering if anyone has ever had any dreams/nightmares related to shmups?

I had a really horrid nightmare last night.

I was in some archipeligo type area sitting on a beach, and there were mermaids and stuff swimming around.
As I looked on, a dark shape came through the air towards me! It was that boss from right near the start
of Sine Mora, the underwater boss that looks like an octopus. But it had Gigafacer's face on it.

It came at me, mouth open, roaring.

I jumped behind a palm tree and thankfully it went flying over my head. The mermaids were screaming, swimming as far away as fast as possible.
Octo-gigafacer dove down into the water and was chasing after the mermaids, who were terrified.
When it caught one in it's teeth, it ground it slowly to death, while the mermaid was screaming for it to stop.

This went on for ages until finally it flew out of the water and came looking for me, search lights from it's eyes looking around.

For some reason, there was a pile of clothes on one of the islands, and I hid in those. I could still hear it
chewing on mermaids.

Then I woke up.

So Sine Mora isn't also a bad shmup, it actually gave me a nightmare. This is a true story by the way. :(
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I neve had nightmares like that.

But I usually dream of being in a shmup the normal way, sitting in front of my pc and playing it.
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Cho Aniki bodybuilders shooting Pink Sweets-esque towers of toy building blocks out of their mouths.

Gayest dream ever.
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Can't say I recall having one that's shmup-related. Would be bloody radical to have one though, though preferably not a horrid nightmare one like Octo-Gigafacer. :lol:

Also, if anyone talks about wet dreams with anything Cave/Touhou related in here I'm spamming the report button. Just sayin'.
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If that count as a nightmare... I was one time hearing 2 and a halve hours the 5th stage BGM from Daifukkatsu non-stop. I Finally fell asleep (cause I was hearing it in my bed before going to sleep).

Next day I was "What the heck I've been doing"?
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When I was closing in on my Raiden Fighters 2 clear, after a particularly late night of repeated failures and drilling Red Eye in training mode I had a dream that I was playing through and cleared. It was so mundane that I didn't process it as a dream at all and I was pretty disappointed/disoriented when I woke up.
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Tenziodis and Nihility was somewhat based on some of my dreams, if that counts :P
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The closest thing I can get to having a dream about a shmup is the Tetris Effect that I'm sure most shmuppers are familiar with. I see weird patterns form before me when I'm drifting off into sleep and I subconsciously start dodging them with my eye movements.
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Closest I've had is dreaming about being in an arcade.
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SuperSoaker360 wrote:The closest thing I can get to having a dream about a shmup is the Tetris Effect that I'm sure most shmuppers are familiar with. I see weird patterns form before me when I'm drifting off into sleep and I subconsciously start dodging them with my eye movements.
Yeah, I've experienced that too, pretty cool actually.
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I've occasionally had nightmares where I'm sitting at the computer, but the computer is all wrong (which I guess is due to the computer being emulated improperly by my brain). Wrong colours, incorrect graphics, broken audio, malfunctioning input peripherals, things not moving fast enough, user interfaces that change randomly to things that make no sense, or maybe the monitor is fuzzy or too dim to see, etc. Trying to troubleshoot the hardware never works because the hardware is never in the right place and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Closest I've ever come to a "shmup dream" was when I tried to play Ketsui and DOJ on my broken dream-computer. I managed to get MAME launched somehow, and into one of the games, but everything was wrong so I punched the monitor and got sucked into the game, and landed up piloting the ship in Ketsui myself from a whacked 3D perspective.

That might have been awesome, except someone woke me up before I could actually enjoy it.

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It was 3AM, I was bored, and I was playing Mars Matrix. I shut off, and was about to go sleep.
I'd close my eyes, and I'd just see bullets flooding around. Really weird, freaked me out a bit.
For some reason, there was a pile of clothes on one of the islands, and I hid in those. I could still hear it
chewing on mermaids.
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CMPXCHG8B wrote:I've occasionally had nightmares where I'm sitting at the computer, but the computer is all wrong (which I guess is due to the computer being emulated improperly by my brain). Wrong colours, incorrect graphics, broken audio, malfunctioning input peripherals, things not moving fast enough, user interfaces that change randomly to things that make no sense, or maybe the monitor is fuzzy or too dim to see, etc. Trying to troubleshoot the hardware never works because the hardware is never in the right place and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Closest I've ever come to a "shmup dream" was when I tried to play Ketsui and DOJ on my broken dream-computer. I managed to get MAME launched somehow, and into one of the games, but everything was wrong so I punched the monitor and got sucked into the game, and landed up piloting the ship in Ketsui myself from a whacked 3D perspective.

That might have been awesome, except someone woke me up before I could actually enjoy it.

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- I had a nightmare where, after playing PoDD across several days, I'd see the game screen while I was dreaming, really wanting to get some rest during the sleep time, but unable to, and being forced to watch and think about how to keep chaining
- this happened again (presumably before), with ESP Ra De, where I'd see rains of falling cubes during a long (or seemingly unending at the time) 16x multiplier
- somewhere in time the same happened (before the two previous occurrences) with KoF 99 (not a shmup, of course), one part I remembered was trying to combo the Galactica Phantom DM with Yuri's striker move
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I caught a virus last night, I kept puking and having diarrhea, and whenever I would get into the bed, Images of Dodonpachi, Ketsui, Hellsinker, and C&C Generals (WTF LOL) kept flashing in my mind.

It ended with me dreaming that the bed was a bunker that was being shot at by the Type C ship from DDP.
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