war of the worlds dreams

[malfunkshun]

has anyone ever had any war of the worlds related dreams? i have had several, most of them when i was a little kid, and usually on the scary side. lately i've had a few now and then, usually i am hiding from the martians who have completely conquered the earth.

last night i had another wotw dream. i dreamed i was standing outside and i looked in the sky about 15 degrees above the horizon, and there was a new planet there, very large, about 10 times the relative size of the moon. it looked a lot like the earth and was bright blue, but somehow it looked artificial. i exclaimed to the people around me "do you see that??" while pointing at it in disbelief. at this time clouds began to obscure it, but everybody saw it.

then i was watching a view from orbit, showing massive laser beams carving huge, hundreds of miles wide swaths of destruction across the surface of the planet in straight lines. where it hit the ocean, it steamed and boiled, and when it started to cut across a land mass, the land was vaporized and water woulld rush in to fill it. south america was cut in half like this. then i was directly above the planet surface by a few hundred feet. the beam had narrowed to about 10 feet across and was still cutting swaths of destruction through cities and parks, occasionally running over and killing people. other people were running away from it in panic. then i was actually on the ground with the people, trying to get away from this beam, hoping it wouldn't turn suddenly and change its course directly towards me. i watched it cutting up a city like a jigsaw puzzle, destroying everything in its path.

then the dream changes. i am part of a resistance group and we are trying to gather intelligence on the martians. nobody has seen a tripod yet but for some reason we all know the will come, and we're looking out for them. suddenly i'm watching all of this on TV, its the SS movie. my stepdad is there and wants to change the channel, and i say "wait, we've been watching this crap movie for an hour and we haven't even gotten to see the tripods yet!" so we keep watching and when they finally arrive, they are tiny, 10 inch tall tripods, and suddenly i shouted "WTF! those are 10 inch high tripods! they're supposed to be 100 feet tall!" man i was pissed at SS. however, i watched the way they walked carefully and tried to memorize the pattern of its feet for some reason. then the martians were normal sized, and one tried to burn a hole in a damn with its heat ray. it finally succeeded and the valley below proceeded to be flooded. the tripod braced itself against the coming flood by leaning forward into the direction the wave would be coming from, and crouching very close to the ground.

thats where it ended.

so, does anybody else ever have freaked out WOTW dreams like this?

[BrutalDeluxe]

I occasionally used to have a dream that me and my brother were kicking the football out in our court at night and on the horizon we'd see flashes of fire and flames drawing closer. Over the top of the houses to our left a tripod appeared (funnily enough it was a JW tripod - my dad owns the album) and it starts heading our way. We run inside and I hide in my room. After everything goes quiet outside I open my curtains to see what is going on. What I see fills me with horror, it is the corner of a handling machine looking around. I bolt down the hall as tentacles reach in searching for life. I manage to avade them by hiding in the closet. Eventually the handling machine nicks off and I venture out into the ruined streets, the Martians had moved on. End of dream

While that used to scare me, it was just a dream. Years ago when I was out in the country once, on a beautiful clear night, I saw a bright green shooting star trace diagonally through the sky and disappear behind the mountains. While it was probably a bit of space junk falling to earth, I couldn't sleep that night. I was expecting to see tripods coming marching over the horizon. True story.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]It seems a lot of us keep having WotW dreams/nightmares there have been quite a few threads about it in this section in the past. A quick search with the keyword dream should bring up some fascinating reading. Anynoe study dream analysis and psychology? Could be interesting topic for a thesis
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[Gnorn]

Freud: "Ja ja! Zo zjoe are dreaming of zripoots?
Ja ja! Zis means zjoe zhink zjoe are a left behinz in zhe... ehm... mazkulair zeepartment..."

-Gnorn

[Leatherhead]

I had one dream years and years ago. Unfortunatley it involved one of the machines from the '53 American movie and no tripods. It was scary but still kinda cool. In the dream I was at my cousins house, (I was like, 8 in the dream), and we started hearin' this dronning sound. We turned to look down the hall and there's this little golden manta ray shaped ship from the movie, but it was like only a foot across (It was kinda cute actually). Anyway just as we see it my Uncle jumps in front of us to "try to scare it off", and is vaporized by the heat ray. (Poor Uncle Al). So my cousin and I run upstairs to my cousin's room and close the door behind us. We think we're safe and stuff. Then we start hearin' the dronin' noise beind us. We turn and another one of those ships is comin' outta the closet. We could hear it revin' up the heat ray and at that point I woke up in a cold sweat. As I sat there in the dark, I thought. "Hey! Taht was COOL!"

[CHEPLOSCAM]

HEY nuts YEAH..... BEING NEW TO THE NET AND ALL HAS REALLY OPENED MY EYES TO THE FACT THAT I AM NOT ALONE. JEFFS MUSICAL HOOKED ME AT A YOUNG AGE THAN THE BOOK FOLLOWED AND THAT WAS IT, NO ONE ELSE AROUND ME SHARED THE SAME PASSION FOR THIS PHENOMENON OF LITERATURE...FOR THE LONGEST TIME I FELT LIKE A FREAK, OBSESSED WITH AN ANCIENT STORY EVERYONE EITHER DID NOT KNOW OR CARE ABOUT..............SO I GUESSE THIS IS MY DREAM COME TO LIFE,

[David Faltskog]

STOP SHOUTING...Please.

D.F.

[Colonel]

A little more than a year ago, I dreamt about .War of the worlds'.
I don't remember every detail, but here it goes:

I was suddenly sitting on the edge of the sand-crater that the martian cylinder had caused. Right to me sat a good-looking lady friend of mine. We both watched as the cylinder opened very quickly, and out crawled three martians (looked like the description in the book, except they where a bit smaller...and purple), which immedietly headed towards us. I couldn't move, but my lady friend could, so she ran away. One of the martians grabbed my homework ,which I had been holding all the time, and ate it.
The end.

[Gerkinman]

I havent had a WotW dream, but i had one when i was Samus Aran from the Metroid games once, it was cool...i got to be a chick and shoot stuff lol

[Anthony]

S**t i had a WotW related dream last night. It wasnt in the story of WotW, but it was something to do with Pendragons WotW. I cant remember any details but it was f**ked up.

This is what happens when staying on this forum for too long. Im gonna sue ;D

[malfunkshun]

I dream about Mars in general a lot too. The other night I dreamed I was on Mars. In my dream, it's terraformed, with blue sky and thicker air and the temperature is right above the freezing point of water, so there is standing liquid water on the surface. There are houses, trees, grass, everything is just the way I want it. The waves on the lakes are a lot larger because of the lower gravity. Sometimes I dream about excavations being done and ancient fossils being uncovered, or ancient ruins of extinct civilizations.

Its a really euphoric feeling in my dream, standing on Mars, seeing it terraformed and populated, with trees and grass scattered upon the red plain, with a blue sky and a cold crisp wind and calm undulating lakes. I hope that happens some day.

edit:

Holy shneikees... I just remembered, I dreamed about Mars again last night. It was the first rain upon the newly terraformed Mars. Clouds were gathering, as they had never done before. The temperature was nice and warm. The clouds were much more billowy than Earth clouds, and they were heavy with the first rain in billions of years. I also had a view from orbit, showing this first major storm system forming on Mars, it was forming along the coast of the new ocean, feeding off of the different air temperatures over the ocean and the land. Just a hella cool dream.

[BrutalDeluxe]

Dammit! I just had another one last night and I blame this board
The fighting machines are always JW FMs in my dreams, I guess that's what I've been exposed the most to visually. Anyhoo, me and several other humans were trapped in some sort of containment field on the back of an empty martian FM. There were heaps of other FMs standing around the pit and they had "havested" vast amounts of humans to ship them back to Mars. Right in the middle of the pit was a large quantity of what seemed to be power cells to fuel the cylinder for the trip back. Somehow I was able to break through the containment field, command the FM and turn the heat ray on the power cells causing a massive chain reaction of explosions, killing all the martians and saving the day. Unlike in real life, I am the hero.

[lanceradvanced]

Had one last night, was fleeing with a whole bunch of peole down the coast some where, on a large island, to get to boats at the far end... when we got there, there were a pair of fighting machines there (sorta Jeff Wayne ish) and we had to sneak through a farm to get to the docks... as we went out ot back of the house, some folks took pot shots at the martians, but they didn't really notice us till we hotwired the SUV they had half converted to a handling machine.

Then there was a long walk along a very narrow trail, and it ended up with us trapped on a dock getting into dinghies.. ans the machines came up, and all you could see of them was an occasional searchlight, and the glow of the green eyes... it ended when I jumped of the dock, and the dreem faded into what looked like a kids crayon drawing..

[Zoë]

i remember a dream i had years ago. I was in a room and the walls were made of of sandbags (dont know why) and it had gaps so i could see out of it, then the flying machines from the film came and i just had to keep hiding. I hadnt even seen the film in ages, i woke up confused. I always have strange dreams but that is the only war of the world dream iv ever had.