I've joined this forum back in March and had seen this thread with a bit of sadness that I, a person who hardly ever dreams, couldn't dream about Touhou. Bear in mind that the world of Touhou Project has been a part of my life for eight years, but never once had I ever had a dream solely focused about it. I never expected that to change and in the way that it did.
I consider this a blessing too because it was the first really awesome dream I had in a while, and because it really relates to me as a fan of Touhou, so I hope I can mitigate the doubts of believability that
Helepolis mentioned, which is what spurred me to sit down in complete the outline taken on my dream; here's what I wrote completely describing this happening:
"The date was July 23, 2016 when I woke from this dream. In the dream itself, I was walking inside a white building with hallways lined with variations of push and knob doors all adorned with windows to see in. I saw rooms inside had an abundance of stuff I was familiar with. My wandering would lead to a double door that called out more than anything else there. Humoring its calling, I opened it to find a room ahead down a less lengthy hallway with a large abundance of familiar Touhou characters from the Windows Era. It was
packed and I likely would have projected every character from Touhou in that dream had my interest been there. However, instead of joining the crowd, I looked off to the side to find a branching hall right by the entrance. I looked down it to find some of the PC-98 era of Touhou characters.
Being the huge fan I was of Touhou PC-98, I approached some characters I saw such as Sara, Rikako, and
Matenshi heading into what appeared to be a meeting room. They all seemed to be starting a board meeting as there was a school projector setup and huge meeting table inside (much like something out of my college). As more of them, moved past me, I made the assessment that there were a few missing since I saw Sara glancing around for them, so I did actually set out of that room to find some more of them.
Cut came in the dream to a pathway drastically different in color and tone from the white building. The best way I can describe it is that it was something out of
the end-game Dungeon Siege 2: Broken World architecture (a game I was playing at the time) only not as sharp and brighter. There, I spotted a character struggling with what looked like a monster I couldn't identify right away. Getting closer to the struggle, it looked like it was
Ayana (an originally nameless midboss I’m fond of) avoiding contact with a purple, venomous slug.
In the cheesiest manner possible, I stepped in as the thing tried biting her with fangs hidden under it; I stuck out my leg which had the mightiest sock on ever conceived by human race because not only did it stop these needle-like fangs from getting to my skin, but the slug gave up and went away. I conversed a bit with Ayana, but didn't actually hear anything we said, who soon set off for I presume the meeting after a quick thank you. I checked the bite spot before I left, and at first I thought I got a legit bite from that slug, but it seemed more like a bruise from its attempts to chomp me. I would take my leave there and followed Ayana back, and that's where the dream cut off and I woke."
So that was my dream. I really wanted to know what happened after that, but nonetheless, it was a very visually pleasing, vivid dream that held a lot of things I recognized. I like the idea that I went back to their meeting room and became a part of their circle as some sort of representative for the PC-98.
From this dream I can infer a few things from it: I rarely dream at all, and the few times I have over my life it'd been either when something has been on my mind for a long period of time, or if something major happened that affected how restful my sleep is. Tragically, this is likely why more bad dreams and even outright terrible nightmares happen, so when I actually dream, I infer that it's supposed to be meaningful and something to speak to me.
The second real inference I have is that, as my signature would tell you, I'm an advocate for obscure Touhou material, and more often than not Touhou PC-98 games and characters from there do fall under that obscurity. However, any friend I have will be able to tell you that my focus is on a more niche part of even that; the midboss characters of PC-98 and other such lesser-known characters from the Windows era. I infer that this dream was spawned from that passion for these kinds of characters.
I've made it my goal long before this dream to help give characters like
Rin Satsuki,
Noroiko, Matentshi,
Rengeteki, Ayana, and the rest of the bipedal characters without official names attention from fans. I got from this dream a stronger desire for others to care about those kinds of characters; to give them the kind of fan treatments Daiyousei and Koakuma got because those names are cemented in the community by now. Heck, with some of them still nameless like
these two (with other I didn't talk about being here on this page), I can honestly admit that I especially want at the very least enough interest in characters like I referenced to rise so that they are at least known, all have names, and have some sort of followings. If I do make something of this desire, I'll likely share it with this forum in the future.
I dearly hope I get more dreams about Touhou. I wouldn't count on it since that's the first dream I've had in almost three years tops, but heaven knows that after eight years of being a fan of Touhou, it has led me to want dreams about the series I love so dearly, so you can bet I was happy about this.
This is easily my new favorite dream experience. ＾＾
