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Theme park related dreams you’ve had?

The dream I had before my very first trip to Alton has stuck with me for nearly 20 years. No idea why as it was just a bit odd.

I was standing on a giant park map (my only real reference of what the park looked like back then). This one for reference:
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Where the ride logo bubbles are was a doormat with the logo on. Jumping on the doormat put me onto each ride, like a video game...
I guess it stuck with me because it was abstract but also surprisingly accurate given that the Internet and ride POVs weren't easy to access then.

I think that's all I have. Except for the nightmares I used to get while working as a ride opp :confused:
 
Sorry to bump this thread, but I had a dream the other night where Thorpe canned Project Exodus and instead cloned the Big One at Blackpool, but made it 1ft taller to claim the UK height record. They cloned it to a surprisingly painstaking degree of accuracy; they single-handedly revived Arrow by gathering old staff, and the park even somehow revived Ron Toomer from the dead for the sole purpose of assisting with the design! I think they even named it “The Slightly Bigger One”…


In spite of this degree of effort, however, the enthusiast reception was poor…


That was a strange dream…
 
Sorry to bump, but I had another strange one the other night…

As with the Valhalla dream that started this thread, I found myself at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. For starters, this was somewhat of a parallel universe version of Blackpool where the entrance looked bizarrely like that of the Magic Kingdom in Florida, but that’s besides the point.

However, I found myself going through an attraction that has literally never existed… it was a huge attraction that was part fun house and part assault course, with these random mini ball pits scattered throughout it that I kept tripping over and falling into. Interestingly, it was themed to Gangsta Granny, with police sirens throughout, and the marketing slogan “at least it’s a Gangsta Granny ride that’s more than 500ft long…”…

But most bizarrely of all, I was accompanied through the attraction by none other than the ensemble from Modern Family! I don’t remember much about how they were involved, but I do remember Jay Pritchett talking animatedly about closets the whole time (sounds random, but makes more sense if you’ve ever watched MF), Gloria repeatedly tripping over her high heels, and Phil Dunphy cannonballing into every single ball pit and having the general expression of a kid in a candy shop…

I know it sounds random, but that’s what genuinely happened…
 
Sorry to double post and bump once again, but I had a very weird theme park dream last night that I couldn’t not share…

Basically, it revolved around my first day at Europa Park. And it was one of those dreams where every little thing was stopping me from getting into the park and riding any rides… but far from a regular one. Buckle up, because this dream is weird…

Things got off to a good start after a wonderful sleep in Hotel Castillo Alcazar (actually, I’m not sure what hotel it even was… it certainly didn’t look like Castillo Alcazar), but then we went down into the hotel lobby… where I was greeted by my study skills tutor from university, who was armed with a cricket bat and a huge black bin bag. She then proceeded to whack me around the head repeatedly with the cricket bat and throw me into the bin bag…

When I finally woke up from being knocked out by repeated cricket bat wounds, my study skills tutor had taken me out of the bin bag, and I found myself in a room that looked bizarrely like the House of Commons if it didn’t have any MPs in it. She then threw me onto one of the green seats and threw an exam paper in my face before informing me that I had to resit A Level Maths for some reason, and I wasn’t allowed into the park until I’d passed. I then started doing the exam, but for some reason that I can’t quite remember, she then came and kicked me out of the room for “acting up” before throwing me into my own private room and restarting my timer from the beginning, even though I’d completed a fair chunk of the exam.

The exam was fairly plain sailing after that, but when I got out of the exam, I wasn’t allowed to leave the House of Commons-style room, as it got stranger… @Burbs and @Ian then appeared out of nowhere and informed me that it was time for my “Forum Member’s Review”. They sat me down at this table where I was facing them directly, and then they began to spend a long time grilling me on my past forum posts. I don’t remember exactly what they said, other than that it started with them going “We’ve been looking through your post history… and my god, you’re a moaner!” before then shaking their heads and tutting at me in perfect unison. I don’t remember what they said after that, other than that it was definitely about my previous post history, but for some reason, my mum then appeared and reprimanded me for being rude to the two TS team members. And I again can’t remember what I did… it just came seemingly out of nowhere.

After that, I finally found myself in Europa Park… except as is typical for dream theme parks, it looked nothing like I’d imagined it would. I started in this tiny indoor area with Victorian style windows and a tiny little house to navigate your way around to get into the park. It had corridors that were barely wide enough to fit me in them, and it was an absolute maze to navigate my way through. I did eventually get through it, but for some reason, my grandparents (who aren’t even coming to Germany with us in real life) then appeared out of nowhere, and we spent a few minutes exchanging pleasantries. By this point, my enthusiast anxiety was most certainly rising, and it was close to closing time. I then exited the maze with my grandparents… which led us to a massive muddy field that had Silver Star randomly plonked in the middle of it. I yelled “OH MY GOD, IT’S SILVER STAR!” and then started sprinting like I’ve never sprinted before. My grandparents initially tried sprinting with me, but then they told me to leave them behind, as they were too tired. My foot fell into a giant rabbit hole while I was sprinting, and I twisted my ankle very badly (much more badly than you’d expect for merely getting your foot stuck in a rabbit hole, for some reason), but I kept running (albeit in a rather haphazard way, and certainly not straight… I felt like I was going to keel over any second due to my ankle pain). I was very close to reaching Silver Star’s queue entrance… but then in typical theme park dream fashion, I woke up.

I know it sounds weird, but that’s exactly what happened, word for word…
 
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On a serious note, forum review season is approaching. You will each be receiving a PM over the course of next week, inviting you to your annual review. If the time or date is not convenient please reply to the PM with a workable alternative.

Please remember that your reviewing team members are preallocated and you will not have a choice in who sits on the panel, or conducts your review. Therefore, please hope and pray you don’t end up with @Sazzle
 
Ian said:
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Yeah, this dream was a seriously weird one… possibly my weirdest yet!

On a serious note, I can’t quite tell if the lower part of your post is in jest or not… I sincerely hope it is, but I wouldn’t like to be sure…
 
Have I unintentionally opened a can of worms here? As I never remember having a review on here in the past, and I’ve been signed up for close to 5 years now…

I’ll admit I’m ever so slightly nervous about mine, even though I don’t think I’ve ever broken any forum rules…
 
Matt N said:
Have I unintentionally opened a can of worms here? As I never remember having a review on here in the past, and I’ve been signed up for close to 5 years now…

I’ll admit I’m ever so slightly nervous about mine, even though I don’t think I’ve ever broken any forum rules…
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Oh Matt 😂😂
 
My theme park related dreams are often ones where I’m riding an unnamed coaster, usually an old woodie or something and the restraint isn’t locked in so I spend the whole ride trying to keep myself and sometimes my children if they’re in it, from flying out of the train.
 
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Ian said:
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On a serious note, forum review season is approaching. You will each be receiving a PM over the course of next week, inviting you to your annual review. If the time or date is not convenient please reply to the PM with a workable alternative.

Please remember that your reviewing team members are preallocated and you will not have a choice in who sits on the panel, or conducts your review. Therefore, please hope and pray you don’t end up with @Sazzle
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I’m happy to have @Sazzle so long as she brings the harness and the riding crop again, helped me focus 😂
 
Come to think of it, I did have another “first day in Europa” dream a couple of months back that was vastly less interesting… this one centred around some completely made-up theme park vlogger, who bizarrely looked a lot like Shawn Sanbrooke, following me around the park and recording me in random places. But yet again, I never rode a single ride…
 
Matt N said:
Sorry to double post and bump once again, but I had a very weird theme park dream last night that I couldn’t not share…

Basically, it revolved around my first day at Europa Park. And it was one of those dreams where every little thing was stopping me from getting into the park and riding any rides… but far from a regular one. Buckle up, because this dream is weird…

Things got off to a good start after a wonderful sleep in Hotel Castillo Alcazar (actually, I’m not sure what hotel it even was… it certainly didn’t look like Castillo Alcazar), but then we went down into the hotel lobby… where I was greeted by my study skills tutor from university, who was armed with a cricket bat and a huge black bin bag. She then proceeded to whack me around the head repeatedly with the cricket bat and throw me into the bin bag…

When I finally woke up from being knocked out by repeated cricket bat wounds, my study skills tutor had taken me out of the bin bag, and I found myself in a room that looked bizarrely like the House of Commons if it didn’t have any MPs in it. She then threw me onto one of the green seats and threw an exam paper in my face before informing me that I had to resit A Level Maths for some reason, and I wasn’t allowed into the park until I’d passed. I then started doing the exam, but for some reason that I can’t quite remember, she then came and kicked me out of the room for “acting up” before throwing me into my own private room and restarting my timer from the beginning, even though I’d completed a fair chunk of the exam.

The exam was fairly plain sailing after that, but when I got out of the exam, I wasn’t allowed to leave the House of Commons-style room, as it got stranger… @Burbs and @Ian then appeared out of nowhere and informed me that it was time for my “Forum Member’s Review”. They sat me down at this table where I was facing them directly, and then they began to spend a long time grilling me on my past forum posts. I don’t remember exactly what they said, other than that it started with them going “We’ve been looking through your post history… and my god, you’re a moaner!” before then shaking their heads and tutting at me in perfect unison. I don’t remember what they said after that, other than that it was definitely about my previous post history, but for some reason, my mum then appeared and reprimanded me for being rude to the two TS team members. And I again can’t remember what I did… it just came seemingly out of nowhere.

After that, I finally found myself in Europa Park… except as is typical for dream theme parks, it looked nothing like I’d imagined it would. I started in this tiny indoor area with Victorian style windows and a tiny little house to navigate your way around to get into the park. It had corridors that were barely wide enough to fit me in them, and it was an absolute maze to navigate my way through. I did eventually get through it, but for some reason, my grandparents (who aren’t even coming to Germany with us in real life) then appeared out of nowhere, and we spent a few minutes exchanging pleasantries. By this point, my enthusiast anxiety was most certainly rising, and it was close to closing time. I then exited the maze with my grandparents… which led us to a massive muddy field that had Silver Star randomly plonked in the middle of it. I yelled “OH MY GOD, IT’S SILVER STAR!” and then started sprinting like I’ve never sprinted before. My grandparents initially tried sprinting with me, but then they told me to leave them behind, as they were too tired. My foot fell into a giant rabbit hole while I was sprinting, and I twisted my ankle very badly (much more badly than you’d expect for merely getting your foot stuck in a rabbit hole, for some reason), but I kept running (albeit in a rather haphazard way, and certainly not straight… I felt like I was going to keel over any second due to my ankle pain). I was very close to reaching Silver Star’s queue entrance… but then in typical theme park dream fashion, I woke up.

I know it sounds weird, but that’s exactly what happened, word for word…
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Matt, I honestly don't know what kind of weird stuff you've been taking before you go to bed that causes you to have these weird dreams which you remember so vividly and in such incredible detail, but it's hilarious either way. :p
 
Jonathan said:
Matt, I honestly don't know what kind of weird stuff you've been taking before you go to bed that causes you to have these weird dreams which you remember so vividly and in such incredible detail, but it's hilarious either way. :p
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It’s so weird… most of my dreams are ones I either don’t remember or ones that are quite dull and lacking in detail, but every few months, I get thrown an absolute blinder that is both extremely weird and perturbingly detailed… I guess this was one of those.

I honestly haven’t been taking anything; I think it’s just the bizarre way my mind works…
 
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