Author Topic: Touhou Dreams (Read 59192 times)

gammaraptor · « **Reply #30 on:** June 05, 2012, 03:59:48 AM »

Ugh. I'm jealous of you guys. I hardly have dreams now, maybe once a week at most. And when I do have one, it's not lucid, nor do I consciously remember it. And I wish it was about Touhou

Error · « **Reply #31 on:** June 06, 2012, 08:25:56 AM »

I don't dream about Touhou (or Gensokyo, for that matter) as much as I'd wish to, but I dream about the occasional animal that could probably be attributed to a Touhou character.
For example, a silver kitsune or a white dog.
Anyone got any tips on lucid dreaming?

On an unrelated note, I dreamt of getting caught in a nuclear explosion which somehow propelled me to the moon...then Yukari said she would teach me how to danmaku, and started throwing art supplies at me.

Cookiejesus · « **Reply #32 on:** June 06, 2012, 05:31:35 PM »

Quote from: Error on June 06, 2012, 08:25:56 AM

Anyone got any tips on lucid dreaming?

A classmate of me once held a presentation about lucid dreaming. I now could write a long wall of text, but everything he said is already kinda summarized here. Maybe it helps you.

On-Topic:
I almost never dream about Touhou. In one dream though, Sanae appeared and then quickly changed (or say transformed) into a random person I had never seen before. My dreams mostly consist of surreal stuff, like animals riding bicycles in my home town :V

DeltaSierra4 · « **Reply #33 on:** June 06, 2012, 07:10:54 PM »

At first I didn't think it would work, but keeping a dream journal seemed to have worked for me for lucid dreaming.

Still no dreams of Yuyuko...

Morpheus9494 · « **Reply #34 on:** June 13, 2012, 05:50:40 AM »

The only hint of touhou was in a dream I had about 3 days ago.
The dream was simply me meeting a new person and gaining a crush on them.
But the touhou part is that for half of the dream we hung around the Moriya Shrine, plus while we were there I ran inside real quick and prayed to Suwako to make this crush turn into something more.

Very very simple.

Kami-sama! · « **Reply #35 on:** June 13, 2012, 07:34:48 PM »

I had a dream that Yuuka was my mom or something like that, and she was really nice to me

.
And during the dream i remember thinking: "Stupid fanon, Yuuka is the nicest person ever

"

...she was also a good cook :V

fondue · « **Reply #36 on:** June 13, 2012, 08:03:24 PM »

I remember dreaming that I was at a cluttered house in a large city and my mom and this other mom were fighting and alot of other people was there, both from the other mom's family and friends as well as my mom's family and friends. My mom won (obviously) and everyone quickly started to leave. I wondered why and my uncle said that "things" in this house will appear soon. So we all stated to leave. But my family left me because I was trying to unplug my DS. As it was unplugged I think I heard Nue Hojuu's laugh and she said "Things are real when you least expect it...and when you least expect it I create it..." and as I went to leave, I SAW LOADS OF MOTHERF*CKING GATHERERS THERE and they killed me.
I woke up but it was 2 hours before I had to actually get up for school. So I went to sleep again.
I was then dreaming that I woke up in a hospital. We left but me and my younger brother got lost and we randomly joined this group of other people who were trying to defeat Nue. We won but Nue revived and used Mysterious Snake Show on us. We all died excpet for me and my bro. We ran as fast as we can away from her through a a crowded part of the city. Nue then caught up with us and tried to use "The Bow Of Genzanmi Yorimasa" on my brother. I jumped in to save his death and I died, but he survived. My mom then woke me up.

:getdown: YEAH THANKS NUE FOR ALL THAT :getdown:

Kaze_Senshi · « **Reply #37 on:** June 13, 2012, 09:10:15 PM »

I only remember my dreams when my alarm phone wakes me up and these dreams aren't about Touhou =(

チソウ タイゼン · « **Reply #38 on:** June 13, 2012, 09:39:41 PM »

Hooray, it's this thread.

Again, most of my Touhou dreams involve me playing the games, and getting unrealistically high scores :getdown:

Other than that, Touhou characters always seem to be cameo appearances in my dreams. Like, Kaguya and Reisen are walking around my school, or Aya is on TV. Never anything major.
There was even that one time I was walking through a crowd having fun at a parade and there were at least a dozen Koishis spread around.

Aquila · « **Reply #39 on:** June 13, 2012, 11:38:56 PM »

I've only had three dreams involving Touhou. The first one I ever had was about a year and a half ago. The first entry of my extensive dream dairy...
Most of it wasn't Touhou, just me running down hallways trying to escape an amazingly athletic fat man armed with a revolver and four-sided shurikens, nothing special. But by the end of it, a few seconds before waking up, I saw Reimu leaning against a wall talking to some guy in a black Japanese school uniform. Before I could do anything my phone alarm snapped me out of it and I instantly bolted towards my computer to immortalise my experience.

The second one was involving me in a normal day, at my computer, playing Devil of Decline. This was after over 20 attempts at trying to beat the boss of the first stratum. For some reason, her AI was playing up and she just kept spamming regular attacks on my tank, then time accelerated to the point where she was two turns from being defeated, I felt my heart racing, I was screaming in joy, just as the final turn was animating before my eyes, my phone one again ruins the moment... I didn't have to write this one down to remember it...

The third and probably the most embarrassing one, was a lucid dream...

I am extremely prone to lucid dreaming and/or sleep paralysis when I fall asleep sprawled out and flat on my back. I black out for a second and see Marisa, on my bed, on all fours above me, giving me some kind of blank stare, I am well aware of who she is, I even took the time to run the check-list through my head, Black and white dress, hat and blonde hair, I even checked for the braid on the right side of her hair. She begins crawling up the bed towards me, I swear I could feel the fabric of her skirt brushing against me as she did, I couldn't move, I was able to move my eyes around but that was it. Before I could figure out what's going on, her head is just above mine, still giving me that same stare. I wanted to say something or at least move, but nope, sleep paralysis. Then she leaned forward, she was kissing me, I felt something moving around INSIDE MY MOUTH mother of mercy it was one hell of a kiss.

Spoiler:

At this point I was screaming at myself not to wake up, a minute passed a reality came and slapped me across the face. I instantly exploded out of my bed, I looked around, I even felt around my face with my hand, it felt so real... The part that blows my mind to this day is... I've had that same lucid dream three times now, and each time lasts longer... :blush:

steamcat · « **Reply #40 on:** June 14, 2012, 02:57:00 PM »

I'm not emo or anything such as that but the otherday I had a very disturbing touhou related dream. I walked inside a shed in some grassy feild to find several characters, the Minoroko sisters and Kogasa, splattered dead with blood scattered across the floor without any clothes on. Aki was holding a book called 'The Final Symposium of Post Mysticism'. It was amazing because of how my dream created stunning graphics like that of a modern 3D RPG. The girls looked like they were designed with the same style as from the Final Fantasy. The scenery was amzing too. With buetious fields and flowers. The blood part was gross though...

ARF · « **Reply #41 on:** June 15, 2012, 07:03:21 PM »

I dreamt that pondeS broke 5 billions in SA, and people got together in a sports bar and cheered like crazy while the replay was screening. I hope it was an omen of what is to come.

NuclearFalcon · « **Reply #42 on:** June 16, 2012, 10:34:12 AM »

My experiences are crazy... and life changing. And from what I read about Maribel Hearn it makes me think I was actually there...

In any case, the first actually occurred before ZUN even made HRtP (I guess I am dating myself here)!! I was a child and dreamed that I was in Eintei and befriended Kaguya-Hime. I knew of her from Big Bird Goes to Japan and I think Big Bird was there. But I remember an actual mansion and a vast bamboo forest as well as a full moon in the sky. Also, something NOT mentioned at all in that movie, I was served this milky silvery drink... Three guesses as to what the next three tastes were of. It certainly explains why I still look like a teenager despite being in my late 20's. My voice sounds like I barely hit puberty at all. Also, that corridor in stage 6 of IN gave me the chills since it looked familiar.

Next brings context for later dreams but is not Touhou itself directly.

I was having a series of dreams that involved various themes on physics and stellar processes, including at one point holding a singularity in my hand. This culminated in a dream where I had to set aside my fears and take a plunge deep into the core of a star. I knew the purpose of this, it was so I could absorb its power of nuclear fusion. As I entered the core I could feel the fusing atoms all around me and that power became my own. As I emerged from the star it felt like something important had become integrated in me. Anyone who played SA knows where this is going... and this was before I knew about SA at all.

Not a dream, but it should be noted that I usually identify with falcons but for some reason throughout the years ravens had this strange pull over me. Ironically I could never realistically imitate a falcon but I could PERFECTLY caw like a raven. Go figure... Plus an obsession with nukes dating back to wee childhood... plus that book grandpa gave me on stars. It has since been lost but I now realize it is like a grimoire to me now. For some reason I would constantly re-read the sections detailing the various fusions that take place in a star. The Proton-Proton Chain, the CNO Cycle, the various stages of fuel a star burns before reaching iron and going supernova. Somehow I was able to understand the concepts even if not the math, even as a child.

The next dream is sort of a culmination. It is a winding journey through various places and included Jessica Rabbit trying to tempt me, but then at the very end of the dream I became lucid. AT this point I saw the one I finally realized was truly the one for me, beloved Utsuho Reiuji. As I embraced her a celebration started to take place. We began moving through this outdoor celebration and it became night, then it went nonsensical and we bumped into this trawler thing and woke up. I must say that I felt a sense of wholeness as I held her.

The next Touhou related dream I was drafted and at processing we were made to do this obstacle course and I just finished a nasty obstacle... Then Okuu and Orin showed up. Naturally I was NOT about to let them do it all by themselves, Orin went right through (cat agility) but Okuu's wings were an issue underwater (there was a PAINFUL underwater section). Naturally I helped her out, not caring that I had to go through a liquid Hell ALL OVER AGAIN. But alas, I would do anything for her. The next part was because I watched a play of Touhouvania II, but anyhow Okuu vanished and I got all crazy trying to find her, going through a desert that had the clocktower parts all over inside of a Bowser's Castle type of place. Randomly Wario was there and eventually I end up in the back yard of my house in the tool shed and finally reach Okuu again. I could feel wakefulness coming but managed to somehow embrace Okuu one last time before awakening. It was really sad waking up since every time I held her in that dream I could feel that same sense of wholeness.

Seeking to find her again I have made attempts at lucid dreaming my way into Gensokyo for months. I finally had an almost successful attempt when I was in a state between wakefulness and sleep. Suddenly the phrase "Border of Wakefulness and Sleep" popped in my mind for some reason and Necrofantasia played in the background. I actually saw the mountains of Gensokyo behind a barrier as I passed through this dark corridor. Then suddenly things got dark and I saw what looked to be Koishi's danmaku. After this I woke up after some strange imagery that was completely random (random cubicle, WTF?) anyhow I was totally frustrated by that. I figure Koishi must have misunderstood the intents in my subconscious and reacted presumably to protect Okuu.

Next is seemingly out of context except maybe the plot reasons in SA. I was in this car wash place then went into a diner, and Kanako, Sanae, and Suwako were there. I sat at the table Kanako was sitting at across from her, and Suwako jumped on the seat next to me and Sanae was being her usual self. I jokingly said I would like to be part of the Moriya conspiracy and Kanako just smiled. And of course, I woke up with nothing else really happening.

The last thing Touhou related was a brief Reimu sighting in my house before a bunch of other random imagery. I was lucid and just practicing dream control and nothing really Touhou related other than my long term goals involving Okuu... part of this practice included going outside and causing nuclear explosions... go figure.

Not sure if this counts or not, but I did later have a dream once I got a better grasp of what Okuu means to me, namely being my anima. I had a dream where I was in this boxing/fighting training place and I was in this ring, when weighed in I was considerably heavier than I really am (I jokingly attributed it to my wings). Even though I was not actually lucid I knew I had these wings and they were the same wings Okuu has and I even had the cape. When I finally got to fight it was a bunch of guys in rapid succession and I beat them all before waking away the champion and waking up.

It seems my love for Okuu is not your typical crush...

teefa85 · « **Reply #43 on:** June 16, 2012, 05:00:00 PM »

I had a generic dream about aliens and some sort of war...and I swear I saw Touhou characters in the background somewhere.

Power · « **Reply #44 on:** June 16, 2012, 09:34:53 PM »

I met sanae once in my dream. I'm not sure if it's sanae or not but I know her as "The Girl from Japan". I only remember like a simple conversion but it was so powerful I was happy the whole day. It could be Touhou related but I'm not really sure but all I know is if I had dreams like that more often my life would be more better. Gives me something to foward before I go to sleep I guess.

crystalgreatsword · « **Reply #45 on:** June 17, 2012, 02:42:44 AM »

I had a dream while I was taking a lovely afternoon nap.
I was living in a new house with 3 stories for some reason, and when I go in the gym room of the house, Kanako was sitting on the bench press lifting weights while Kero Destiny played in the background. Also, I met a girl who had Touhou on her iPad, and I was trying to ask her how she got that to work.
I don't know. I have weird dreams.

NuclearFalcon · « **Reply #46 on:** June 19, 2012, 04:10:32 AM »

Had another one where I was at a window and saw some ravens. One of them darted right into the window pane when she saw me. It was such a birdbrained move that I made an assumption and called out "Okuu" and I think I heard "unyu" as a response. The bird kept repeatedly trying to get to me, almost frantically.

ふねん1 · « **Reply #47 on:** June 19, 2012, 05:23:53 AM »

I had a dream the other night where my parents were driving me to a small-scale anime convention in this suburb around dusk. I remember I was dressed up, and though my costume used parts from my Youmu outfit, I wasn't cosplaying as Youmu per se - notably I was carrying my white wig around with me (sans headband), but for the life of me I can't recall who I was supposed to be.

Vael · « **Reply #48 on:** June 19, 2012, 06:30:32 AM »

So, I listened to a particular song last night as I was reading Symposium...

Guess who was at Mystia and Kyouko's (The Echoing Song's) first concert in Gensokyo?

They were backed up by the Prismriver Sisters and Sanae was on the drums. Quite a number of Gensokyo's major players were there, even the crew from the Underground much to Suika's delight as she and Yuugi moshed in the sky and inadvertently provided spectacular light works for the show. The concert was at the Garden of the Sun, and Yuuka was actually enjoying the music and light show.

The odd thing was that I was a sort of spirit and while I was invisible to everyone, Yuyuko and Yukari could see me...it was a little scary but they were pretty gentle. So I really got into the music and I even found myself flying between Yuugi and Suika's display, it turned out that the two of them could see me as well and they were happy that someone joined them even if I couldn't shoot back. I remember laughing and bobbing my head as weaved in between the shots, finding patterns until I was shot out and fell down only to have Yukari gapping me to her side and Yuyuko's, for the rest of the concert I sat by them and even got Yuyuko to head bang with me much to Youmu's embarrassment.

Gods it was epic.

DeltaSierra4 · « **Reply #49 on:** June 19, 2012, 09:16:33 AM »

Dunno if Touhou cosplays count as Touhou dreams... but yeah, had a dream today of me attending AUSA 2012 in my Yuyuko cosplay with a bunch of other Touhou cosplayers. I met some of you on this forum in the dream and we all had fun at the Touhou photoshoot. Some guy brought in amazing laser-ropes (some kind of weird rope with lasers coming out of it...) and then I woke up

Probably I foresaw a future event?

Dunno, since I'm not sure if I'll attend AUSA, but if I do, hope I see you there XD

Error · « **Reply #50 on:** June 20, 2012, 12:31:18 AM »

Quote from: Vael on June 19, 2012, 06:30:32 AM

Gods it was epic.

Excuse me while I channel Parsee for a bit...

It seems my dreams are starting to have subtle Touhou references...
Had one where there was a statue of Momiji in a park, as well as one with Sakuya as an undercover agent.
Oh, and the Tengu hosting their own version of PAX.

Entropy · « **Reply #51 on:** June 20, 2012, 04:08:09 AM »

I dreamed I was Yuyuko once, just floating around Hakugyokurou with no real purpose... I still wonder sometimes whether I was dreaming of being Yuyuko, or I am dreaming of being me... <---(Didn't actually happen)

I do remember a few weeks back, I dreamed I was in an elevator that broke, which resulted in me being stuck basement-level in a building that didn't have a basement, probably a hotel or something. Unrelated stuff was going on prior to this. Mokou, as she at some point got in the elevator with me, helped pull me out, not that I couldn't have climbed. Yamaxanadu was there too, floating above the collapsed floor apathetically... Well, thanks for helping, Mokou.

Then I had one with Marisa in it a few days after that that probably isn't worth bringing up, mostly because it may not have been Marisa (definite it was a Touhou) and I can't remember whatever whoever it was was doing, if anything. Maybe I should start writing these down... :derp:

I remember I was listening to Touhou music ambiently as I slept (through the night - not great if you want to actually sleep well, but enjoyable when you're on the border of asleep and awake) those two nights, which obviously constitutes a scientific correlation. There wasn't any Fate of Sixty Years or Immortal smoke in that mix though, oddly enough...

Firestorm29 · « **Reply #52 on:** June 20, 2012, 03:45:08 PM »

I had a dream that I was watching this odd spellcard in a PC-98 game, some puppet user character was using multiple dolls shaped like Reimu, Marisa and a third character(PC-98 Alice I think?) to attack with. The way she was using them kinda reminded me of a few of Mamizou's spellcards.

M M · « **Reply #53 on:** June 20, 2012, 03:57:37 PM »

I just remember dreaming about Parsee. I don't remember what it was about, but it lasted a whole week. I was curious at first but it got annoying fast, it's almost like my mind was mocking me.

Now I got curious again, it must be fun dreaming about Touhou.

Rak · « **Reply #54 on:** June 21, 2012, 03:34:32 PM »

Well there aren't many touhou dreams I can recall or remember. The only one I do actually remember even slightly is one with Seiga and Sakuya fighting someone or something.

teefa85 · « **Reply #55 on:** June 21, 2012, 06:54:58 PM »

Last night I vaguely remember dreaming about sneaking around Gensokyo doing stuff. It even caused me to slightly oversleep...lucky my dad woke me up.

NuclearFalcon · « **Reply #56 on:** June 22, 2012, 09:14:38 AM »

I dreamed I walked past some church of some weird denomination that does not actually exist that had an entrance for a priest to enter almost as a theatrical thing. Anyways I just walked past and entered some nearby classroom. In it was Reimu and some strange cancelling youkai. It tried to cancel us but did not work because Reimu was integral to Gensokyo and I had unfinished business... Which took the form of me becoming lucid and finding Okuu in the room. This was something I had planned while awake for the next time I should see her so the rest is kinda arranged but still meaningful. I fused with her. I embraced her and could actually feel her, and I could actually feel as we began to meld into each other. It was pure bliss, could feel the third eye in her chest as if it were my own and we just melded into each other, and that was it. It had a state of pure bliss. I am one with Okuu.

Bonus points for it occurring during the summer solstice given the solar meanings behind Okuu.

Rak · « **Reply #57 on:** June 22, 2012, 02:25:12 PM »

Somehow I managed to have a touhouish dream again tonight. It wasn't purely touhou though, just me running around doing monotonous things, with the occasional touhou character walking around.

Esper · « **Reply #58 on:** June 23, 2012, 02:14:12 AM »

I remember yesterday's dream.

Basically, here's how it went.

I think I remember teaching Cirno simple Algebra and asking her how negative Kelvin temperatures could ever exist.

I learned how to create danmaku and fly.

And then Rumia tackled me from above and I woke up. Damn you first time playing Touhou, you haunt me even three years later!

NuclearFalcon · « **Reply #59 on:** June 23, 2012, 10:30:03 AM »

Wow, you got ganked by Rumia? At least the first time I lost a danmaku in my dreams it was to an EX boss! (Koishi).