What's the last weirdest dream you had?

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Cartoon and comic artists are the most underappreciated artists in human history. Though they were the earliest known artists, their profession has seemingly always been pigeonholed by "fine artists" and journalists. I have always believed [and still do] that cartoons and comic illustrations better demonstrate realism than the finest filmmakers and photographers do. They don't just show reality, but all the dreams and subtext above and beneath it. You're only a failure when you give up on the craft completely. Keep on trucking.

Over and over being controlled to do certain tasks or budget with a certain amount of money or playing sims but they were versions of myself...

Was one of those waking dream things.

Eventually woke irl just before 11.

That's pretty deep. I'm still playing The Sims 2 these days, the custom modding available made it my fav version [and shareware is free].

i must be the only man in the universe that has never played the sims.

Ive never played it. Never played any video game more recent than Pong.

So you're not the only person who has never played it.

But why did you say "man"? Is playing Sims a guy thing?

Other games, that involve combat, are more obviously of particularly male interest. Had the impression that the Sims was no more violent than a TV soap opera.

for me it was pong, pacman and doom. this was 30 years ago!

In my personal experience, it is more common for women to play it frequently, although online forums and websites for custom content and modifications of the original game are just about equally represented by gender and nationality. I hear that it's way more popular in the Far East [mainly India/SE Asia] than anywhere else, but then again there are more people there than literally everywhere else on earth.



Pretty much. I seem to spend a bit more time [65-35?] designing towns, public buildings and parks, and building homes and apartments than I do playing the characters. I really do enjoy carpentry, renovation, interior decorating/design IRL [in real life], and I had always hoped to become a civil engineer, but I'm hopeless with mathematics and it's not a very profitable career in my part of the country [college isn't free down here either]. I do admit enjoying vicarious living through the characters, I can design lavish homes and gardens that I could never hope to afford to live in, take expensive vacations, live any stage of one's life, and experience such various perspectives I would never personally understand. I came from an extremely dysfunctional family, and had a somewhat challenging life so far, so there's a lot of weltschmerz beneath my own personal façade.

For the record, most of the other games I've enjoyed in the past were arcade type games, such as you both describe [I had a downright addiction to Tetris in middle school], and other similar design games like Rollercoaster Tycoon [designing and building theme parks/rides], Sim City [urban planning], etc. The latest game I've ever seriously enjoyed was The Sims 2, which came out back in 2004.

i dreamt i was in Alex Trebek's [tv's "Jeopardy!" host] house in southern california, he was dressed in charcoal sweats and dark slippers and an old double-knit leisure suit top, black and maroon, with his hair dyed dark, and he was bemoaning to me about his somewhat dysfunctional children, one of which he had to send monthly checks, so many thousand $$$$ per month. and the other kids he never sees. then that part of the dream abruptly ended, he disappeared, and i wandered in his house for a bit before i found myself in a highly modified version of my sister's house in town here, they were all about 30 years younger, i was at the picture window of their great room in their house, looking out, most of the trees were gone and i could see a panorama of the olympic mountains in verdant jeweled splendor, the greens and blues sparkled and they appeared close enough to almost touch even though they plainly were 50 miles away in real life. one of the grandkids [unfamiliar in real life] was driving a half-scale porche 356C sports car, electric-powered, somewhat ineptly in the manner of a 4 year old, and bumped into the house. i thumped on the window to get the attention of my kinfolk and my older niece [as she was when she was about 12] saw and i yelled at her through the window to check on the grandkid who crashed into the house, and she seemed blithely unconcerned. then i awoke.

What does "Alex Trebek" of Jeopardy fame represent...to you?

a mirthful genius, but a mere mortal human at the top of his game. but one facing mortality and at least some "what if's" in his twilight years.

You neglected to place your answer in the form of a question.

i can't follow rules which is why i would never make it on any game show. it's the reason i can't play chess. memory issues.

A Harry Potter / 1984 crossover.
Conclusion: Ms Rowling had no idea what an evil overlord's reign would look like - but if she had, the books wouldn't be suitable for children/teenagers.

^^^sounds like a soft kinda nightmare there.

i dreamt of a tiger pursuing me, but i turned around and it acted like a tame housecat towards me.

had yet another L and D dream, hospital ward was busy but somehow i sailed through it without any trouble.