Doom dreams

[heliumlamb]

recently i had a dream where one i was inside one of my maps-in-progress (in glorious 320x200) and as i was walking up to certain walls, they would start moving away from me, as if the verticies were being dragged in real time. all HOMs were present too.

[Maurice64]

I remember one dream were i was in the creepy doom wad i was getting chased around the the map until I found a room with a cabinet but that room strangely made me feel comforting i got an urge to climb up the cabinet so i did but as soon as I started climbing the cabinet got taller and taller the more i climbed it soon i found my way on top of the cabinet but sitting there for a few minutes i feel of and landed face first but i still got up but know i look around there's only one door and that door I were i came from "ok that's strange" i said to my self but getting closer to the door i xan hear arguing from the other side i open the door and i see there's a couple arguing to each other and i was in the middle of the argument i felt like normal no dread no sad nor scared i just didn't feel anything hours pass and there still arguing after that i wake up but that's pretty much it i don't remember anything else then that

[volleyvalley]

It isn't strictly a 'Doom Dream', but I suppose it is close enough.

 

I remember being in a city map at night time, in outdoors near a flat complex to be specific, the one I live pretty close to actually. Now, the reason why I mentioned that it wasn't strictly a 'Doom Dream' is because it wasn't in Doom, but rather in Dusk, because I specifically remember, that one of the secrets was only accessible, when you built enough speed to bhop over an ashwall to find an secret ammo stash the other side, with an teleporter to find your way out.

 

Now, it was still Doom for the most part, the textures, the sprites were all Doom, but the weapon sprites, the HUD, and the physics were like they are in Dusk. I should make a level out of that dream, it would be pretty fun, once I get some more free time for myself.

[Captain POLAND]

Recently had a really weird one with a gigantic level that had a few rooms with gigantic Cyberdemons locked in alcoves (and I mean gigantic - the Icon of Sin wouldn't even come up to their knees). These giant Cyberdemons never actually attacked, although it was implied maybe they could if they had time and a good angle. There were also more normal monsters, but also weird monsters like Cyberdemons without arms, and shotgun guys that could revive each other, and all I had was the pistol, but it fired super fast like in Brutal Doom... at one point I remember I had turned on noclipping mode and was watching myself run around the automap, entering multiple rooms and alerting the demons to attack me, but there were some demons that could phase through walls too and chase me, and a group of tracking fireballs (like revenant missiles, but think more like mancubus fireballs that are 4x the size) chasing me through the walls. There was also this weird phoenix/fire bird type enemy that could fly and instant killed you if it touched you, even on god mode, but it didn't have that many HP so it was easy to kill.

 

 

[SkidyBoobFish]

I had 2 sort of, In the first one i was in "The Chasm" From Doom 2, But there was a talent show. At the factory sort of building at the edge was a stage with a huge crowd and inside was a mall. I also encountered my Friend dressed as an Arch-Vile dancing like those inflatable tube things.

 

In the second i was in an appartment and there was a pillar in the middle, it was made of the "Pancase2" Texture from Doom 2

Then i went to the movie theatre where my friend was setting up a trap i made in a Doom Level before i went to sleep. Then when we were driving away, the houses had the same architexture and textures as i made a month prior.

[Toxisploder]

I just had a bunch of rather vivid dreams, and one of them involved me playing an intense Doom II level! The details I remember mostly took place in an outdoors area: there was an ambushing arch-vile in a small cave (more of an alcove, really), a crowd of barons on a tall cliff using either ASHWALL3 or ASHWALL4, some kind of a ravine with a narrow bridge over it, and at the end there was a modded pain elemental boss that, instead of lost souls, spat small flying spheres that'd shower me in hitscan attacks like chaingunners! It'd get released into the main area from behind a small door at some point, probably when I'd try to take the bridge. I think there were multiple variants of PE on steroids, and on higher difficulties that level would have 2 or 3 of these! I don't recall what the others were about, though. Near the arch-vile jumpscare there was an entrance to a labyrinthine indoors area. I think it used the ICKWALL series of textures to achieve it's greenish-gray look. It was cramped and unpleasant, I lost a lot of health in there. IIRC it had a few pinkies, some barrels, and IMPS ARMED WITH CHAINSAWS AND ROCKET LAUNCHERS! WTF?!

The level was pretty tough thanks to the weird modded enemies. Luckily, there was a lot of megaspheres thrown about (notably, there was one near the arch-vile) and I had an OP modded weapon in slot 7 that'd shoot a thin golden ray continuously, looked really GZDoomy. I saved it's ammo for the end of the level, then killed the modded butthurt elementals in seconds, lol.
I even vaguely remember how this crazy level looked on the automap. Maybe I should try to recreate it!

[Xim]

I can't remember any specific dreams about Doom but I do believe I've had them. I've had dreams about many video games I've played, where I'll be playing some rare never before seen area of a game. I've even had dreams about TV shows where I am one of the characters in the show.

[ALilGrayBoi]

I dreamed about getting jumped by the Barrons in e1m8

[Milkeno]

I have dreams where the visual style is like doom a bit, nothing pixelated its mostly color pallet and the "edgy?" look I sometimes have flashes in real life where things look "stylized?" (not fully stylized like a cartoon but I dont have a word for it) and my doomish dreams look like those "flashes" if you ever played with reshade before on a realistic game and turned the sharpness way up and used a painterly filter its sort of like that.

What I associate the "doom look" with is definitely alot different than what most people think of it as and its ussually what I associated the "doom look" with when I was newer to doom and only had played shareware coming in from doom as someone completely different from what you though doom was going to be like when you first played it, idk this probably water wet stuff and no one cares.

Edited May 16 by Milkeno

[SleepyVelvet]

I had a dream last night where I was just... playing a Doom level I guess.  The mental image was just the game-view itself, and not like sitting at a desk with keyboard and mouse, per se.  I was just kinda mentally moving around and stuff.  Otherwise, all I remember is a lot of Plutonia dark-brown brick, or maybe early Sunlust or something.  There were a lot of Revenant missiles too, I think, maybe...

 

A few months back I had a dream where I was going through a very convoluted 3D level in the visual style of Doom 2 in City Only's void maps.  I remember feeling the geometry at an intimate level while I was weaving in and out of windows, going down chutes, jumping out of broken walls into other building sections, etc - feeling how everything connected together in a way that gave euphoric feelings.  Feels good, man.  Not all fever dreams are this pleasant.

[Toxisploder]

On 5/13/2024 at 12:53 PM, Toxisploder said:

I just had a bunch of rather vivid dreams, and one of them involved me playing an intense Doom II level! The details I remember mostly took place in an outdoors area: there was an ambushing arch-vile in a small cave (more of an alcove, really), a crowd of barons on a tall cliff using either ASHWALL3 or ASHWALL4, some kind of a ravine with a narrow bridge over it, and at the end there was a modded pain elemental boss that, instead of lost souls, spat small flying spheres that'd shower me in hitscan attacks like chaingunners! It'd get released into the main area from behind a small door at some point, probably when I'd try to take the bridge. I think there were multiple variants of PE on steroids, and on higher difficulties that level would have 2 or 3 of these! I don't recall what the others were about, though. Near the arch-vile jumpscare there was an entrance to a labyrinthine indoors area. I think it used the ICKWALL series of textures to achieve it's greenish-gray look. It was cramped and unpleasant, I lost a lot of health in there. IIRC it had a few pinkies, some barrels, and IMPS ARMED WITH CHAINSAWS AND ROCKET LAUNCHERS! WTF?!

The level was pretty tough thanks to the weird modded enemies. Luckily, there was a lot of megaspheres thrown about (notably, there was one near the arch-vile) and I had an OP modded weapon in slot 7 that'd shoot a thin golden ray continuously, looked really GZDoomy. I saved it's ammo for the end of the level, then killed the modded butthurt elementals in seconds, lol.
I even vaguely remember how this crazy level looked on the automap. Maybe I should try to recreate it!

Update: I've been building that map from memory for some time now. Recently, I added a new area on the other side of the bridge, and it ended up looking like a bird's head on a thin neck!

[DoomTheDarkAgesfan07]

I once had a dream that in doom eternal. Doom guy gets brutalized by the demons in some sick death animation scenes when he gets defeated. Similar to 2016 but more gory and you can see half his chest bitten off by a caco demon (like you can literally see his broken rib cage and intestines. Like real brutal shit) 
 

but then I woke up and realized that wasn’t in doom eternal. Bummer 

[RICHIE B]

Well that's the first time the Dark Lord turned up in my dream.

 

Looked a lot different, still very big but much sleeker instead of a big clunky robot, and gold with black and red, but it was definitely him.

 

Found myself on the ground facing up with him towering over me swinging his sword down. Managed to block it with me weapon and hold my ground but struggling to hold my nerve tbh, knowing how hard that fight is in the game and not being safely out of reach. Good job that's when I woke up.

Edited June 9 by RICHIE B