I rarely remember my dreams when I wake up, so I don’t know if I ever had the dream. All the dreams I remember are sad, anxious and or nightmares. Guess The Dream wasn’t bad enough to remember
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I feel the same.
It’s not just me!
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If I remember correctly (tell me if what I’m saying is BS if I’m wrong) It’s actually pretty common. Everybody dreams every night because the brain has to “re-organize” all the things you did during the day ( around three dreams per night) but you don’t always remember the dreams you have. If the dream is pretty intense or stuff, like a nightmare, you will remember it easier.
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i dreamed i met the band green day last night
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Thats about how it is for me, never remember my dreams, at least half of the dreams I’ve had throughout my life have been y’know, THE dream
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Though I am no psychologist, here’s a simple but plausible explanation as to why The Dream is so common.
While we still don’t know why dreams occur, dreams are reflections of our own personal memories and experiences. Since BIONICLE, and more specifically finding sets in stores, is/was a large part of our lives, it makes sense that we would eventually dream about it. Similar to some adults will still dream about being back in school, or dream about people you haven’t seen in ages.
As for my own personal experience with The Dream…
^^^^ This ^^^
Whenever I have The Dream, it’s always in some weird place you wouldn’t expect, like a bookstore or an old thrift shop in the middle of nowhere. Rows of classic G1 sets in mint condition. Pick up a box only to find it’s actually “Galaxy Warrior”, “Robot Hero” or some other generic bootleg name.
Every. Single. Time.
Even in my dreams, I can’t win.
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Well, I just had The Dream again, last night, so might as well catalogue it while it’s still fresh.
Once again, the store didn’t matter, might as well have not existed. In the corner of a shelf, almost hidden away, I found a pile of old bionicle sets, almost all of which were bootlegs that don’t exist. I also managed to find a couple of tiny part pack boxes (that don’t exist) that I knew for some reason were real Bionicle. The most interesting part of this dream was the 2006 bootlegs I found on the shelf. Each one had the number 92 somewhere on the box (no idea where that came from). And for some reason the Piraka were in bizarre canisters completely unlike the real ones. They looked like these jars
but stretched out to the proportions of the Inika boxes. There did appear to be a spot on the top for the head to be displayed, kinda like a fusion of how the Inika and Piraka did their cannister gimmicks. Once again, they had the number 92 molded into the back of the cannisters in very big letters.
I just want to know what 92 means.
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Remembered one more bizarre detail, there were also like a thousand of these https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=8073-1#T=S&O={“iconly”:0} on the shelf next to the bionifakes. Which is kinda strange, I never owned a single atlantis set. Though I do remember watching the movie when I was a kid, and I also seem to remember there being a downloadable game of some kind that I had on my computer, but honestly, I’ve no idea if that actually existed.
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I just woke up from The Dream again. I was definitely in a Walmart because I remember seeing employees. There was some Gali Mata sets, Gahlok Va, G2 Pohatu, and some other unrecognizable G2 sets. There was also a lot, and I mean a lot of Star Wars sets. There was even a Star Wars set that doesn’t exist. They also had Lego Agents sets which I thought was pretty cool. This dream was interesting because I specifically remember looking closely at the boxes so I could tell exactly what set it was. It’s like I knew deep down that it was a dream, and as such I would need to focus in on certain objects in order to give them actual form.
Edit: I remembered more details about two of the sets. The first one is the Star Wars set that doesn’t exist. It came with Captain Rex as the only Republic minifigure, some kind of walker (presumably the one from the 501st battle pack) and a pile of battle droids. I have no idea how many battle droids were in the pile, but I know it was a lot.
Second set I remembered more about was the Agents set. Even though it said Agents on the box, it looked like a Hidden Side set. It was a large box that you’d expect to cost at least 50 bucks, but the only things on the box were two minifigures one of which was in the air with that classic left arm and leg going back, right arm and leg going forward look.
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Had it again last night. Revamps of the Toa Mata and their foes were sets that looked like Hero Factory Savage Planet villains based off of the original Rahi instead of animals. There was even a point in the dream where I was like, “Oh this is totally The Dream again.
“ Then someone in the dream was like ‘nah? This is real life’ and I began feeding into it. Ughh
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Man, the three of you are lucky. I haven’t had it in months now.
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More like unlucky, literally trapped in recurring dreams where we have things we know we never will again, pining after a lost childhood joy
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Also, 3 of us had the dream last night. We really are living in a simulation aren’t we.
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I can confirm
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Or perhaps it’s that old bzpower mind link acting up again (could’ve sworn they took that down when g1 ended)
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literally trapped in recurring dreams where we have things we know we never will again, pining after a lost childhood joy
That fits many descriptions of what it is like to live in Hell.
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I think it happens to me when I need some sort of comfort. I had some intense mid terms and I think my brain threw some nostalgia comfort at me. But it just makes me bittersweet sad happy
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I’ve actually never had a dream like this, which isn’t surprising given how weird my dreams usually are.
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I had it.
I had The Dream™.
I had it a year ago and completely forgot about it until this morning. I had woken up from a dream which funnily enough was the first dream in which I cried…that’s a story for another day. Anyways somehow my brain synapses, after waking up through several coincidences managed to recall “The Dream” topic then recall that I had had said dream albeit quite different from others.
So The Dream™
My family and I were at some sort of theme park, kinda of a pirate shanty town, lots of rustic buildings huddled together with cobblestone streets winding in between. The entire place was crowded like Mos Eisley-with crowds to weave through.
Enter the player.
I had separated from my family to check out a warmly lit bookstore/2nd hand shop with various curios. I eventually made my way to the back and right at the bottom most shelf in the darkest corner was a basket. A basket full of masks. All of them were in colours they had never come in, sparkly purple Haus, Infected Kakamas, you name it. I spent ages pouring over them, weighing up which to buy as they were 5 bucks a piece, until I realised they couldn’t be real, I checked and sure enough they weren’t. They were custom resin molds! Still fantastic enough!
By that point my family had walked away and had said the usual “we’re leaving…without you” so I rushed to catch up with them to show them this amazing find. They’re dubious of my find but I drag them back to the store. I’d compare the experience to that scene in Chicken Little where Chicken Little is trying to show the townspeople the Flying saucer but they’re just dragging their feet. We finally get there and I rush to the back to find the basket full of masks but they’re all horrible, they’re all like the thumbnail of that one video “how to make a custom Bionicle mask” horribly painted, horribly shaped clay monstrosities. I checked all over, sure that there had been a mistake, trying to explain that there was different masks but my family were already leaving…
So frustrating.
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