Fragments again... but this time I dreamt something that I am sure I've never dreamt before-- I remember trying very hard to remember a large segment of my dream, and succeeding; I remember remembering my dream in my dream. Unfortunately, this did not work so well after I woke up, although it gave me a sense of the enormity of my dreams, as the part that I am unable to remember seems to be more than 75% of the entire dream. There was a whole part of the dream before the writings below that was realistic and strange, but try as I might, I am unable to recall those images. It is sitting on the cusp of my consciousness and I feel that I am very close to remembering but am unable to. All I remember is remembering that I tried to remember and was able to do so.
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I do remember being in my house in Wynnewood. I rounded the corner from the kitchen, through the dining room, and into the TV room, where all the video games and TV are set up (I assume that they are still there as I have not been there in about 6 months). I searched for a while for Left For Dead 2. After perusing through mostly DVDs and some games (none of which I can remember, but I'm very curious about what was there now) I finally found what I was looking for. The game case was not green as it usually is, but white. I took the disc out of its case and put it in the Xbox 360 and began to play.
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From this point forward I was in the game, no longer holding a controller or looking at a TV, but actually living the game (inside my dream). Somehow I was in the middle of a campaign, which I did not recognize, and right where I had last left off (even though there are no save points in LFD2). I did not recognize the setting, which is odd because I know all of the campaigns pretty well. The characters and weapons seemed different as well. I was holding a rifle and our 4-man team was in the foyer of some sort of church that attached to a larger building. It seemed southern and old fashioned, based on the wall paper and carved wooden detailing in the walls and where they met the ceiling. The doors were open and lots of people were inside, scattered throughout the pews. One lady in the front was talking loudly. She reminded me in appearance (hair, face shape and clothes, in a general sense as the graphics were not great) of the head of the church in the movie version of Silent Hill. I cannot remember exactly what she was saying, but I remember it being bizarre and dangerous. I noticed as I zoomed in on her using my rifle scope that her gestures were robotic and typical of older first person shooter video games. I walked into the church, video-game style, and the lady teleported to my vicinity-- it seemed almost like a glitch, as she was walking towards me and got stuck somewhere, then after some lag time jumped to my location. I zoomed in on her head with my rifle again. Then I put it away, and for some reason I thought it would be funny if I melee'd her. So I mentally pressed the melee button and for some reason, instead of punching her, I bit her-- video game style, where I did not actually make contact. That made the church-goers become hostile to me and I started seeing the little red indicators for damage from all directions as they surrounded me and started clawing and kicking at me. At this point I remember laughing both in-game and suddenly out of game sitting on the couch with a controller. I was trying to do something specific before my character died but was unable to as I succumbed to the vicious beatings of the church folk. At this point I was laughing so hard that I woke up. The whole bit is a lot funnier if you've ever played the game, and none of it was realistic-- in fact it seemed the graphics of the game were more like the first Left For Dead game, lacking a lot of texture and detail.
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