So like, I've been on a fairly new kind of mental health med for a few months. It's given me pretty strange and interesting dreams. Here's an overview of some of them that feel like they're linked or related to each other.
Also, it's something that is stupidly on-brand with my interests. >_>
The dreams started out with me taking a trip to an amusement park a la Universal Orlando or Disneyland or something. I remember taking an elevator while talking to someone also visiting the park alone. Downstairs on the elevator there's attractions and game booths and such, and it kinda reminds me of Rainforest Cafe or something similar.
After walking through an indoor and presumably underground shopping mall with dim, cool-colored lighting on the top floor? I find a huge hanging flyer or banner thing leading down a dark, but otherwise mundane, hallway. The banner or whatever reminds me of
The Lion King so of course, it catches my interest.
When I get down there and enter the door of the hallway, I'm walking out to the seats of what looks like a stadium. There's this huge rounded-triangular pattern on the floor of the stadium. They're announcing some kind of live show and audience-played giant board game called the Kinstealer. I get s'more Lion King vibes, especially of the hyenas and the outlands.
I get weird vibes in dreams that act almost like shorthand, explaining to the unconscious me some kind of made-up context. *shrugs*
The second dream of this sort takes me back to this same amusement park. Here I'm in what looks like the hallway of a stadium, though the walls look like they're made of sandstone. Vaguely Egyptian-tomb-like thing. There's more people walking about, and I get the feeling this is connected to that stadium from before. Probably the hallway I and other guests were meant to take, rather than one directly to the stadium seats.
Within the hallway, there's murals depicting some kind of muscular hero named Lion-Man. There's also a branching hallway with different glyphs of some sort, which gives me the feeling of a) a sorceress and b) that I probably shouldn't go down there. There's also brochures and manuals and stuff along the way, and I think I get the vibe of some kind of heroic dude named Headhunter too? I don't know if I made him up to match Lion-Man and the sorceress as a trio while stirring in bed or not.
Long story short? My dream involved some kind of stage show that revolved around three heroes and some kind of dark magic game, all of which having some kind of fantastical African vibe.
I've been wanting to draw the three heroes and the Kinstealer board layout, though it'll take a while. For whatever reason, the three heroes give me some
Thundarr the Barbarian vibes -- I can imagine the MC Lion-Man being like Thundarr with a body like Ookla, for instance. The unnamed sorceress clearly could be inspired by Princess Ariel. And I already did a mockup of the Headhunter on Hero Forge, as seen below. Something like him mixed with Kraven the Hunter from Marvel comics?
...criminy. Maybe the dream also hints that I want a vacation. :v
