h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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*drops in*
Could I have a rat and a cup of tea?

i see you dropped by, help yourself to the rats. As for tea? there might be an old tea bag floating by, from the Aroma cafe, would that do?
If i squeeze it out into an old half skull, i'm sure i saw one lying around somewhere.
Maybe while you're chewing the rat you could tell me a nightmare?

old tea bags are perfect, I love skulls.
A nightmare, well, I'll try my best:
you are all alone, alone in moor, it's full moon, you hear wolves howling. you always have the feeling someone is behind your back, but everytime you turn around you don't see anybody.
Suddenly you hear a noise behind your back, you turn around and a big, dark dog is standing in front of you, too close.
you look straight into its cold, dead eyes.
you start to run, the faster you run, the faster the dog runs, but if you get slower it doesn't slow down.
you have the feeling you can't move your legs as fast as usual, you can almost feel the dog's breath on your neck.
You slip and fall, the dog's standing on you.
Its head is moving torwards you neck, you can't scream, you can't move, you feel something's touching you neck and feel your warm blood
running down you body.

Well, it's my first try.
And English is not my mother tongue.
I've only been learning it for a couple of years.

That rat is delicious!

Thankyou, that was an excellent nightmare. Is it a real one? Maybe, as you come from Austria (I think that's right isn't it) its connected to wolves.
And your English is very good, better than some English English I've read.

There are no wolves in Austria, there are cities, (even big ones)!!!!
I don't live in the forest!
Anyway-
Thanks, I try my best.
It wasn't really a real one, it was inspired by The Hound Of Baskerville.
Now you tell me a nightmare!

I didn't mean you still had wolves, just that they disappeared more recently from Austria and are probably more a part of stories and folklore than here. You still get them in the Spanish mountains and they've talked of reintroducing them in Scotland. I hope they do, the most fiercsome thing we have here, (UK) are badgers! Thats if you don't count the humans.

Here's a nightmare:
I have nightmares about driving over cliffs. The worst was a dream of being driven in a car, in moonlight so bright there were no headlights on it, along a road that showed like a grey ribbon. And then the ribbon isn't the road at all, its the edge of the cliff. We've driven off the edge and the car is falling in complete silence. Below are the fields and hedges and houses tiny like toys, all silver green in moonlight. Its beautiful and peaceful but the car is going to hit the ground and there is nothing that can be done to stop it.

I've never seen a wolf.

Your nightmare is great. I often dream about flying and then I wake up and feel as if I lost something. Flying seems to be so easy but I can't remember it when I'm awake.

BTW why are you obsessed with nightmares?

I'm not obsessed with them exactly, I'm just trying to collect a few.

I am fascinated by what the subconcious mind can do and nightmares, even more than dreams I think, come from the subconscious.

Plus I've had some very vivid nightmares, some under the influence of an antimalaria drug ()and I wonder why I had those particular ones, what they mean. If anything.

What were these nightmares like?
Maybe you should go to a psychologist or someone like that...
I have nightmares about school and people I know. I try to forget them as soon as I wake up.

I'm not worried enough about them to go to a psyschologist, I'm just curious. The cliff dream was one of these nightmares, the others involved crashes on motorways and seeing big cats, leopard type cats.

I never try to forget a nightmare straight away. I try to find a way out from whatever was happening, that gets it out of my head.
I used to have dreams like yours, of flying or running and of people I was at school with, but I haven't had that sort of dream for a long time. Not that I'm aware of anyway. I know I often forget the dream as soon as I wake up.
I once dreamt I hadn't done my French homework. I felt terrible all morning at school until it got to the French lesson. Then as I went to my desk I thought "What homework?". We hadn't been given any. I had been remembering part of a dream without realising it.

I hardly ever dream a pleasant dream, I think it's because I'm always worrying to do something wrong.
I once had a nightmare about a puma (?) in our garden.
I had one about aliens in our garden and one about aliens in my hometown following me, my neighbor turned into an alien.
(after I read MIB)
No, wait, I had two nightmares about aliens in our garden.
Hmmm - never realized I dream about aliens so much.

Where do you come from?

I think you only remember dreams you wake in the middle of, and those are usually nightmares. I've never dreamt of aliens, despite watching almost every science fiction series there's been, from Dr Who and the Daleks on.
My family are Scots, I was born in Africa and moved around so much I never know what to answer when asked where I'm from.
Do you like your neighbour? Maybe he is an alien? And subconsciously you know this?

My neighbour moved (to Mars maybe), I don't quite remember her.
So where are you living now?
What are you doing when not collecting nightmares?
I never really liked Science Fiction, except DNA. And StarTrek, sometimes.
I like old books and I'm a bit old fashioned anyway

I think Hannah(Anfhyba) that I ought to confess: I started the Monster page to have some fun being a monster mucking about in the sewers and to collect nightmares. But I have another homepage, which you can get to from the "frog snacks" link in the monsters lair, which would tell you what else I do, that I live in England now, etc.
And I like old books too.
How old are you talking about though?

Been there.

Well, I like books by authors like Jules Verne.
BTW, Adrasteia is the second name of the greek godess of revenge. I like the greek mythology very much.
Anfhyba is a good name, too.

I've never read Jules Verne, just seen films of his stories. What makes his books good to read?
I re-read Alexander Dumas, especially Twenty Years After. Which is nothing like the Three Musketeer films.
Adrasteia is not in my dictionary, just Adrastus King of Argos. Any relation??

I think it's fascinating that someone who lived in the last century could already imagine submarines and spaceships.
I think I read it because it's something you should have read once in your life.
I found Adrasteia in a greek mythology dictionary, never heard of it before.
You know that situation when you read a book and don't pay attention and after a few hundreds pages you realize you don't have the faintest idea what it is about?
That happened to me when I read Three Musketeers.

I hadn't thought about that with Jules Verne, it's a bit like Leonardo Da Vinci drawing helicoptors.
Dumas does take some reading. Dickens has that effect on me, I think because I don't connect with his characters.

I'm back!
Not fully back, actually, I won't be online very often in the next months
(because I won't be at home and my sister will give birth in the next days, so I think I'll be busy)
I've read a lot about King Arthur now, but it gets a bit dull after some time.
What are you doing in the holidays?