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[iffi]

tergem's post tells me he needs to Google "Touhou" immediately.

For the rainbows (and arguably the happy music, depending on how happy you mean), you'd have to turn to Robot Unicorn Attack, unless you count rainbow-colored bullet patterns as rainbows. Speaking of which, what would RUA crossed with Touhou be like?
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[Nix]

I can only remember a single occasion where I actually got a design from my dreams that I remembered when I woke up, but I've completely forgotten what it was by now. I was really interested in lucid dreaming for a little while because I thought it would be a great opportunity to explore some hidden creativity within myself, but then I watched Inception and got freaked out about lucid dreaming screwing up my perception of reality. Probably a good call. I'm disconnected from reality enough as it is.

[Coz]

I rarely do actual design during dreams, but it happens. When it does, it's mostly about small details that had me stumped.

However, it happens somewhat frequently that just after I wake up, I come all of sudden with the solution to a design / programming problem, or that I make up some mechanic for a game.

And finally, I have weird dreams. Some of my dreams can be translated into game mechanics, so I write them down right after I wake up before forgeting them. 2 of the 3 game biggest game ideas that I want to make some day, came out of this.

[Supermini_man]

I had a dream where I did a car game that had a song that would make the persons watching the game very melancholic. I had someone random watching me playing it, and after some two laps she asked why I hated her or something like that.

I have no plans to do such game. And never will. 

[Tumetsu]

I had a dream where I did a car game that had a song that would make the persons watching the game very melancholic. I had someone random watching me playing it, and after some two laps she asked why I hated her or something like that.

I have no plans to do such game. And never will. 

Sounds like a good partygame then. Or "social-gaming" :D

[Player 3]

Some serious (mood-wise, realistic future) RPG where the final dungeon involves more sneaking than fighting and the "final battle" wasn't really that final.

[Supermini_man]

I had a dream where I did a car game that had a song that would make the persons watching the game very melancholic. I had someone random watching me playing it, and after some two laps she asked why I hated her or something like that.

I have no plans to do such game. And never will. 

Sounds like a good partygame then. Or "social-gaming" :D

"Racingship: The laps of the course that is sadness"
I can see it kill anyone's Facebook friends list, one by one. 

[Muz]

Game designing in my dreams is impossible, because I can never remember my dreams. Maybe some memory like 3 mins after I wake up, but any longer and it's a blur.

[:^)]

I've only ever wanted to make my nightmares into games, I've wrote a few down in immaculate detail so I can make them later. (read: when I have a computer)

[Nix]

Game designing in my dreams is impossible, because I can never remember my dreams. Maybe some memory like 3 mins after I wake up, but any longer and it's a blur.

Dream recall takes practice. If you want to be able to design in dreams at will, you actually have to train your brain to be able to do it.

[dantheman363]

I can never remember my dreams more than 30 seconds after I wake up. I guess they aren't that vivid enough for me.

[Nix]

I can never remember my dreams more than 30 seconds after I wake up. I guess they aren't that vivid enough for me.

No, you just need to write them down if you want to remember them. Most people who want to practice dream recall keep dream journals and write down notes about their dreams as soon as they wake up.

[SplinterOfChaos]

lol, i can generally remember my dreams 30 seconds after waking up. I usually return to them after 10 minutes. My problem is that when i get out of bed, a few hours later, by then i don't remember.

[Blue]

I tend to either not have or not remember dreams, although I've had a few nice ideas in dreams [that I didn't really continue on], such as a pseudo Shadow of the Colossus except with a faaabulous color scheme [namely pink, yellow and blue].

You know, nightmares would probably make for some interesting games as well and already has; Yume Nikki was more-or-less an ideal mix of nightmare with game.

[:^)]

Woa. Had a really weird experience last night. Only half of my brain was sleeping. Quite literally.

I had one eye open and the other half of me was dead asleep. My right side keep falling in and out of lucid dreaming and it was extremely jarring.
I thought I was having a stroke.

What I'm curious about was if it actually happened, or I just had a weird lucid dream that was about ... Being awake on one side of my body.

Sorry, I hope that wasn't too off subject.  

[KittenEater]

One time I had a dream I was using Game Maker and photos of myself cosplaying to recreate Cave Story.


Hehehe.

[SplinterOfChaos]

What I'm curious about was if it actually happened, or I just had a weird lucid dream that was about ... Being awake on one side of my body.

'I dreamt I was a butterfly.

I couldn't tell if I was dreaming, but when I woke
I was I and not a butterfly.

Was I dreaming that I was a butterfly?

Or was the butterfly dreaming that it was me?

Even if there's a difference between the butterfly and I
the distinction isn't absolute.

And there is no relationship of cause and effect.

-Soshi, a Japanese poet

[tzachs]

'I dreamt I was a butterfly.

I couldn't tell if I was dreaming, but when I woke
I was I and not a butterfly.

Was I dreaming that I was a butterfly?

Or was the butterfly dreaming that it was me?

Even if there's a difference between the butterfly and I
the distinction isn't absolute.

And there is no relationship of cause and effect.

-Soshi, a Japanese poet

mind = blown  

[X3N]

'I dreamt I was a butterfly.

I couldn't tell if I was dreaming, but when I woke
I was I and not a butterfly.

Was I dreaming that I was a butterfly?

Or was the butterfly dreaming that it was me?

Even if there's a difference between the butterfly and I
the distinction isn't absolute.

And there is no relationship of cause and effect.

-Soshi, a Japanese poet

mind = blown  

Yup, good stuff.
So.. I finally had the weird lucid creative consciousness stuff again last night. Scared me, being awake and thinking without moving, strange sensations in my body. I kept fearing that some freak of consciousness would kill me.. gotta remember it's all in the mind when I do the dreaming, otherwise I end up sleeping on my face (lucid stuff doesn't happen) and then my neck hurts in the morning. Will try for tonight. I was thinking about programming / game design as I went to sleep.

[Supermini_man]

Yeah, sometimes when I'm entering into a lucid dream I try to wake myself, I'm get afraid if the dream gets scary. The last lucid dream I interrupted started like the intro in BIT. TRIP BIT, with me as Commander Video (I think I also saw a bit of Pong happening).