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Subnautica is my literal nightmare fuel (dream log)
3 years ago
Don't do it first. Do it better.
(And holy shit, this is journal number 666, how appropriate.)
I have a weirdly specific but rather effective fear of sea monsters. Which is indeed weird because I've had an off-and-on love about learning about the ocean since I was a little kid; it's like an alien world in our backyard.
I heard about Subnautica a long time ago, and knew I was absolutely not going to play it, because while it looked quite fascinating and even from trailers and such I could tell a lot of effort was put into making a believable ocean setting, effort that paid off...
Yeah. No.
I'm not super sure how I started, but in the last month, I started watching Subnautica videos and reading the wiki. Reading about it doesn't bother me (much), and it's really cool stuff. But videos...I don't know why I do this to myself. Mental/emotional masochism, I'm going to say.
And, last night...
[6:19 PM] Me: And well, the day sure didn't start chillaxed. You know how I mentioned I've been having weird dreams lately? Well, true to form, when that happens, there's usually a three to five-day period when that's a nightly occurrence. But this time, they were decidedly unpleasant.
[6:19 PM] Discord buddy: Not good.
[6:20 PM] Me: Not restful either. And here's what it was. I dreamed that a monster that had the body of this...
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20210806172618
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20210806172731
[6:21 PM] Me: And the head of this...
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20171220161137
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20170721034032
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20170721034030
(In case these links go bad, it had the body of a chelicerate from Below Zero and the head of a reaper from the first game.)
[6:21 PM] Me: Aka a fusion of two of my biggest Subnautican nightmares...though thankfully not including a particular third...
[6:22 PM] Discord buddy: Was gonna eat ya, huh?
[6:22 PM] Me: You and I would both think that, but no. It was fighting, of all people...
[6:23 PM] Me: https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/22/5d/.....981ae78b5a.jpg
(Alucard from Hellsing.)
[6:23 PM] Discord buddy: Alucard-o
[6:24 PM] Me: And I don't need to tell you why I would have those two monsters on the brain. How Alucard got into the mix is beyond me because I can't think of a single time yesterday he entered my thoughts, and with my dreams, I can almost always trace where they came from, even from the briefest of times I thought about them.
[6:25 PM] Discord buddy: I mean, recent Death Battle.
[6:25 PM] Discord buddy: A little further back, but you can say it.
[6:26 PM] Me: That was like four months ago.
[6:27 PM] Me: Not that I ever needed DB to have him in my thoughts. But anyway, so yeah, those two were fighting. And it was very bloody. Like, disturbingly bloody.
[6:27 PM] Me: And despite going to bed early, these nights of lacking restful sleep are starting to wear on me. This really didn't help.
[6:28 PM] Me: I woke up feeling more tired than when I slept. And was kind of on an adrenaline crash the first half of the day at work. Fortunately...work was dead the first while. Like for the first three hours, I had literally nothing to do. Things have slowed down a lot, and the only people I really had to do anything with, with any urgency, were on the west coast, so they're two hours behind me and I can't very well call them at 6 AM their time.
So, now I can say Subnautica is literally my nightmare fuel, because it happened. Looks like a great game if what it offers is what you're into. But I'm out.
Update 3/9: And then I went to bed even earlier and, during the course of the night, despite waking up two or three times, dreamed up pretty much the entire second season of Wonder Egg Priority.
I have a weirdly specific but rather effective fear of sea monsters. Which is indeed weird because I've had an off-and-on love about learning about the ocean since I was a little kid; it's like an alien world in our backyard.
I heard about Subnautica a long time ago, and knew I was absolutely not going to play it, because while it looked quite fascinating and even from trailers and such I could tell a lot of effort was put into making a believable ocean setting, effort that paid off...
Yeah. No.
I'm not super sure how I started, but in the last month, I started watching Subnautica videos and reading the wiki. Reading about it doesn't bother me (much), and it's really cool stuff. But videos...I don't know why I do this to myself. Mental/emotional masochism, I'm going to say.
And, last night...
[6:19 PM] Me: And well, the day sure didn't start chillaxed. You know how I mentioned I've been having weird dreams lately? Well, true to form, when that happens, there's usually a three to five-day period when that's a nightly occurrence. But this time, they were decidedly unpleasant.
[6:19 PM] Discord buddy: Not good.
[6:20 PM] Me: Not restful either. And here's what it was. I dreamed that a monster that had the body of this...
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20210806172618
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20210806172731
[6:21 PM] Me: And the head of this...
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20171220161137
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20170721034032
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/s.....20170721034030
(In case these links go bad, it had the body of a chelicerate from Below Zero and the head of a reaper from the first game.)
[6:21 PM] Me: Aka a fusion of two of my biggest Subnautican nightmares...though thankfully not including a particular third...
[6:22 PM] Discord buddy: Was gonna eat ya, huh?
[6:22 PM] Me: You and I would both think that, but no. It was fighting, of all people...
[6:23 PM] Me: https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/22/5d/.....981ae78b5a.jpg
(Alucard from Hellsing.)
[6:23 PM] Discord buddy: Alucard-o
[6:24 PM] Me: And I don't need to tell you why I would have those two monsters on the brain. How Alucard got into the mix is beyond me because I can't think of a single time yesterday he entered my thoughts, and with my dreams, I can almost always trace where they came from, even from the briefest of times I thought about them.
[6:25 PM] Discord buddy: I mean, recent Death Battle.
[6:25 PM] Discord buddy: A little further back, but you can say it.
[6:26 PM] Me: That was like four months ago.
[6:27 PM] Me: Not that I ever needed DB to have him in my thoughts. But anyway, so yeah, those two were fighting. And it was very bloody. Like, disturbingly bloody.
[6:27 PM] Me: And despite going to bed early, these nights of lacking restful sleep are starting to wear on me. This really didn't help.
[6:28 PM] Me: I woke up feeling more tired than when I slept. And was kind of on an adrenaline crash the first half of the day at work. Fortunately...work was dead the first while. Like for the first three hours, I had literally nothing to do. Things have slowed down a lot, and the only people I really had to do anything with, with any urgency, were on the west coast, so they're two hours behind me and I can't very well call them at 6 AM their time.
So, now I can say Subnautica is literally my nightmare fuel, because it happened. Looks like a great game if what it offers is what you're into. But I'm out.
Update 3/9: And then I went to bed even earlier and, during the course of the night, despite waking up two or three times, dreamed up pretty much the entire second season of Wonder Egg Priority.
