You guessed it. This poll is all about dreams, fascinating and just plain wacky! When your body shuts down, what happens in that mental movie theater of yours...?


GENERAL QUESTIONS

1. Assuming that you remember your dreams, do they tend to be good dreams or nightmares?

2. What was the last dream you had that you can remember?

3. Do you remember any strange dreams from years ago? What were they?

4. Have you ever had any dreams that repeated themselves from night to night? If so, what were they?

5. Is there anything you can do that seems to make having a dream more likely?


POKEMONIZED QUESTIONS

6. Have you ever had any Pokemon-related dreams? If so, what were they?

7. If you had to guess (and now you do, ha ha!), what do you think the Pokemon characters dream about?

8. Have you ever heard the song Dreams from the Pokemon 2000 soundtrack? If so, what do you think of it?



Aaaand here are my answers...



GENERAL QUESTIONS

1. Assuming that you remember your dreams, do they tend to be good dreams or nightmares?
It kind of depends on what's happening in my life. Typically my dreams are really random, although they sometimes incorporate a fear of mine - for instance, I've had many dreams where I'm standing on some kind of balance beam several thousand feet in the air. Even if it's over a body of water, it still terrifies me. If good things are happening in my life, my dreams are more positive. They were excellent for awhile starting a couple of summers ago, because things were awesome at the time. On the other hand, they were terrible the last four months or so - see question #4.


2. What was the last dream you had that you can remember?
I just woke up, actually, so this is easy. I had a dream where my teeth randomly started getting ridiculously loose and falling out at the slightest push from my tongue. I lost four at once from the upper right side of my mouth, and then a few from my bottom right. They just kind of kept coming out inexplicably until I had a good 50 teeth sitting on a green placemat in front of me (despite the fact that I only felt eight or so gaps in my mouth at any given moment - which, by the way, felt astonishingly real despite the fact that I haven't had such a sensation since my permanent teeth grew in about a decade ago). When I woke up I did a quick check with my tongue, just to be sure everything was still where it was supposed to be.


3. Do you remember any strange dreams from years ago? What were they?
Yeah... I had one dream where I was playing a baseball game from my Sega Game Gear (for no apparent reason, I was somehow playing it on the TV in a hotel room despite the nonexistence of any such adapter). I lost - something that never really happened on that game - and promptly got freaked out for no reason. The dream ended with me hiding under the bed, daring only an occasional peek at the TV screen which continued to show the final score.


4. Have you ever had any dreams that repeated themselves from night to night? If so, what were they?
Throughout last semester as well as winter break, I had recurring dreams where all the students in the classes I taught promptly attacked me. One in particular involved my first class on Monday. They would all pull out Uzis and try to surround me near the computer, but I outwitted them by leaping backwards out the second-story window. Of course, both my legs would always break from the awkward fall, but I was near enough trees and brush that they couldn't see me to shoot me and I could crawl away using my arms. Unfortunately, innocent bystanders would always get overly curious until my students would start picking off random bystanders from above while I could do nothing but watch...

Another related dream was one in which my body lay flat and acted rather like a boxer's heavy punching bag. My students went back and forth hitting me with baseball bats and other blunt instruments while I limply flopped in response to each strike. Did I mention that last semester was bad? Yeah.


5. Is there anything you can do that seems to make having a dream more likely?
Staying up late (but not super-late) tends to make it more likely, as far as I can tell. At least, I tend to remember more of my dreams when I do that.



POKEMONIZED QUESTIONS

6. Have you ever had any Pokemon-related dreams? If so, what were they?
Yes, I've had my share of Pokemon-related dreams. Most of them involved general journeying and battling, although a few of my early Pokemon dreams revolved around my shipping interests instead. No further comment.


7. If you had to guess (and now you do, ha ha!), what do you think the Pokemon characters dream about?
Thickheaded Ash probably dreams about nothing but battling... Brock's dreams would involve nothing but Jennies and Joys... and Misty likely ranges between Ash's dreams and Brock's (with the targets of her affection being boys, of course). I would imagine May dreams about contests as well as quarreling with Max, while her younger brother just focuses on Pokemon. Dawn... I'm not sure. Maybe her fears? She seems like the type to have nightmares and such.


8. Have you ever heard the song Dreams from the Pokemon 2000 soundtrack? If so, what do you think of it?
Actually, Dreams is my favorite song from any Pokemon soundtrack. It always seemed very uplifting and inspirational to me.



Now it's your turn! When the lights go out and everything fades, what happens in your world?