The meds I took when I was a kid for my ADD would often give me horrific nightmares. No amount of yelling or screaming would wake me up. However, as soon as someone touched me, I would often react violently because of the dream at the time. One still sticks in my mind 20+ some odd years later.

The short version of this would be, I began to realize that people were not what they were supposed to be while I was at school. Left the school early, feeling as though I was being watched the whole time, with no sight of my pursuers. Finally make it home to a living room full of almost every face I knew at the time, only to have what was the head of the pack, sink fangs into my neck faster than anyone who weighed about 300lbs had the right to move. Then...I woke up, to my hands around my mother's throat. Scariest damn thing to this day, in my mind.

If you'd like a bit more detail, let me know. Tried to keep it as short as possible.

Thank you for your reply @Rinzler0001!

I have ADHD myself and fortunately my meds don't give me such nightmares but actually cure them since I also suffer from BPD. Also they decrease the amount of dreams I get overall which upsets me cause I'm really into lucid dreaming and OOBE.

Your dream is interesting and scary at the same time. I would love to implement it into the mod with your permission :D

I've sent you a friend request to ask about couple of details if thats okay?

I have no problem going into more detail publicly. It was an interesting, and confusing part of my life, and maybe someone reading about it will get some sort of help from it. I give full permission to implement this as well. What would you like to know?

I'm planning on making dreams which will trigger special events. For example sleep walking which will make the pawn wander around for couple of hours and then come back to bed. My question is: would you be okay if I implement your dream as such a mechanic which will trigger brief berserk mental break? Also the chance for the dream would increase if the pawn falls asleep high on Wake-up, Flake or Yayo?

i'm asking this because I understand it could be difficult memory and don't want it to come across as a mockery : )

Also would you be okay if I add a little "by Rinzler0001" at the end of the dream description?

The closest experience I had to yours is my sleep walking period in my childhood. My mother was terrified because I would talk to her, but acted like I had dementia and I did not remember anyone's names. Now i realised I might had got similar dreams to yours when I was sleep walking. I basically saw very abstract shapes which were floating around me like planets. In my dream I thought the shapes were my family and friends. At some point a foreign shape appeared consuming my friends and thus growing bigger. At the end I was all alone and the moment it got me I woke up to my mother in tears... I felt actual fear of losing my life and grief of losing my family in this dream. That dream repeated everytime I was sleep walking, so maybe that was the same case for you? Maybe these are just dreams that people with ADD have? I got to underline I wasn't on any medication back then.

That sounds like a fantastic way to implement what I was talking about. Feel free to add my name to it. Like I said, I have zero shame when it comes to this, it was all just par for the course as a child.

From what you just described, as far as the emotions go, are very similar to mine. To give a bit more detail to this, I was enrolled in Special Education, to which my mother regretted until the day she died. Now with Special Education here in the states, (and each one does it differently) I wasn't with kids that had legit mental, and physical disabilities, i.e. retardation, Down Syndrome, etc. They took kids like me who struggled so bad to pass anything, kids with Tourette's Syndrome, like me, severe anger issues which a lot of stemmed from having to struggle to learn, and trying to learn how to control things we had no control over.

If any of us got too out of control, i.e. fighting each other, destroying things, screaming at the teachers, you name it, we would be put into a closet for lack of a better name for it. it was maybe a 5ft x 5ft box, and it was thought that the isolation and separation would give us a chance to chill the ♥♥♥♥ out basically. Now, there was a day where this other kid and I got into it, threw some hands, and I got my butt thrown into Isolation. At the time we had a teacher who was this giant redheaded woman with a light beard, no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, she had neck beard. Lol kind of off putting for a kid to see, but, I was so pissed off that they were forced to restrain me.

The way they go about physical restraining is to have multiple teachers get you down on the ground, pin you, and then have your arms and legs pinned behind your back while they sit atop you, keeping everything pinned. For some of those kids, it was extremely necessary, because they would hurt themselves, and others. Now, redhead and I did not get along at all, ever lol, and she was the one that restrained me. 300lbs of a very big woman on top of me, and she stayed there for about 20 minutes, I think, because I refused to calm down. A few days later is when the nightmare hit. I'd have them regularly throughout the week, 3 to 5 times, average.

As I mentioned earlier this one started off at school, where I began to realize something was very, very wrong. Everyone I saw looked like they could barely contain themselves from instantly becoming violent, and they had this look in their eye like they had just spotted the best prey they had ever seen, but were being held back by something. I remember thinking "♥♥♥♥ this, I'm out", and ran home as fast as I could. Some of it is blurry, but I remember coming across people that I knew, either friends or family, or people from the neighborhood, telling me to get home, it's not safe, etc. Finally I make it there, put the key in the front door, open it, and I am literally surrounded by all of those same people, only now they look like the one's at school, and there stands the redhead with the beard. Without saying a word she lunges at me and I remember feeling that same feeling of helplessness that I had a few days prior when she was restraining me, out came the fangs, and right into my neck. That was when mom touched my shoulder, I bolted up, went right for her throat, and then stopped a couple of seconds later when I realized I was awake and my hand immediately went to my neck because I could still feel the sensation of the bite. I felt horrible for what had happened, but mom being mom, got me through it, and understood that I had no control over my reaction at first and helped talk me down, and helped me to understand better about the dream in general.

I do feel as though people like us that deal with things like ADD, ADHD, Tourette's, etc., do have more vivid dreams/nightmares. We tend to do a thing called "Hyper-Focusing", and sometimes, from my own personal experience, the focusing is on the "wrong" thing for lack of a better word, and it sticks with us for days, if not weeks sometimes, and wriggles its way into our subconcious, and then Bob's your uncle, and he's an a**hole, lol!

Your mum was an amazing person for helping you through that. I had similar issues to what you described but I went by as a "normal" child for all my life so they never moved me to any special school. I'm 20 now and I until two months ago I was undiagnosed.

I have never been to places like you described but I read a lot about them in the past. Those schools in which they thought that restraining kids will help them when they are hyperactive... did it help? No. And yet they kept doing it. From what I know that's the definition of insanity... doing one thing over and over again and expecting a different results. Those schools sound like a perfect place for a psychopaths and sadists to work at....

About hyperfocusing... well... three days ago I did not know a single thing about RimWorld's code. Now implementing something new takes me couple of hours... but that's because I hyperfocus on it so much that I even forget to eat now and all I do is analyse RimWorld's code to expand my mod haha it has its ups and downs :P

I probably should've clarified on the school a bit more. It was all public school, and we were segregated from the rest of the kids in our own classroom. We also didn't have the same requirements academically as the rest of the kids, but, we would be integrated into the "normal" classrooms as time went on, and eventually it would get to the point, over several years, where most of us would have almost a majority of classes with the rest of the school.


Eventually we would be almost on an equal level with everyone else. It's not a very good explanation, I know, but it's very hard to explain. As an adult, I can look at it now and see the pros and cons that are involved with the system as a whole. We were only ever restrained if we became a threat to ourselves (in their eyes, they did have rules and regs for that stuff), or others, cuz there were a couple of kids there that last I heard, couldn't cope with everything and ended up either committed to a psych ward, or ended up in a federal prison. Hate to say it, but it's effective to a point.


If you find yourself hyper-focusing, which you won't always notice, STOP, take a break, and come back to it later. I've had 30+ years to figure out how to deal with it, but to be fair you're fairly new to all of it, and it can be dangerous sometimes, for any of us. I will say though, that I think this mod is a fantastic idea for Rimworld, and I'm looking forward to trying it out. Do it at your own pace though, and ignore most of the idiots that will inevitably show up on here screaming for this or that if this mod begins to rise in popularity, which I hope it does. Just wanted to throw that out there, plus to tell you good luck in your endeavors, and that it WILL get easier as time progresses.

Well,i have some dreams to tell.
First i want to tell that i'm some kind sensitive to dreams,if something bad happend to me there,i feel it.Ged injured-feel it,get scared-feel it,get shot(yes,that happend)-also feel it.

This one may be complex:
Sunny day.I was kid,school boy,sit in school bus on right side.We all watch thou windows on ground.There was another 2 bus,perpendicularly poot to our.2-floor building,fully cover with reflective glass windows like office buildings have was next to us,no sign where is exit or enter.Behind that build was open sea,so we are was on some kind of beach.
There was kid on ground,sitting on knees,crying.We watch his few minutes,in one moment he scream very loudly.Black,human like figures appear from nowhere,they run to that kid,and then,bangs,a lot of bangs.They all shoot kid,he keep scream even more loudly,they keep shooting him.Clouds of blood pop from him here and there,bullet push his body on ground.And then silence.Few seconds of silence,until figures turn to us.On that moment i awake.
('continuation' after few months)
It was full night.I was adult.I climb on stairs on elevation.There was a huge crater,and long trail,like something not just fall from sky,but actualy slip to mount.Stoped next to fence,look down,was pretty high.There was person near me,he also looking down.He also was fully black,and in night,he was almost invisible,like me.I look up,there was railroad,and beach,with 2-floor building,fully cover with reflective glass windows like office buildings have,like was in my dream lond time ago,i realise that,in dream.I hear screams.I looked behind,builds iluminate surrounts with their lightbulbs,there was a lot lightbulbs.Another one scream.Someone run from hill with builds to us.Run like he beind chased by wolfs.I ask him 'What happen?',he keep run to us,run until he crush on fence and fall.In panik i turn to men near me,but he disappear,and body that fell,also disappear.I realise that i didn't ask that man,i didn't hear any scream,and there was noone around me.I looked to my hands to check if even i real,hands was on their place,I also noticed tiny snowdrop flowers,everywhere.Their blooms emit soft,cyan light.Everything become more and more blured,and after all,i awake.
(still wait for 'continuation' of this place)

This ones is pretty common:
I lay on huge pile of human corpse,some rotten,some fresh,was few skelets.I lay and cant move.it was a some kind cargo section inside modern sea ships.From pile crawled rotten corpse and crawl to me,he grab my feet and bite off some fingers(and i feel that insane pait,don't know why i didn't awake in that moment)After he crawl closer and going to bite...well...that place...I scared on that moment like hell,and in panic awake.(You know about placebo effect right?There also reverse effect call nocebo.If you imagine bad thins so hard,they become real.I awoked because imagined pain in 'that' place.

I awoked (in dream) in my room.Feel a bit thirsty so i head on kitchen to drink some water.Opened window to let some frwesh air in and there was a insanely huge moon,everythin is shake,like was earthquake.Orange light iluminate everything.Chunks of builds fly here and there,like there was zero gravity.Moon fall closer.Shaking become stronger.Hear some screams.Then some strong wave hit me and i colapse.Awake for real after that.

I'd type more,but others i remember bad.Hope you like it

Thank you very much Rinzler0001. I really would like to make this mod into something that people will actively use and enjoy. I wish you good luck too on your struggles and good luck for your favourite colonists :D

@Backrevol I think it will be a good idea to implement the first two dreams you described as dreams that connect to each other. So any colonist can dream the first part, but cannot dream the second until he dreams first :D What do you think of it?

The last two I will try to implement today or tomorrow as standard dreams from users :>

The one with corpses actually gave me chills... I can't imagine dreaming about something like this. The worst i get is that a fish-man (like the Deep Ones from Lovecraft) chase me and when he is close I realise it is a dream and just "erase" him.

I really appreciate your input. After I implement it I will increase the chance for them to appear for some real time so you will be more likely to see it on your colonists :D

You might already have it in, but the classic "Went to school naked" dream would be a nice easter egg.

@Toast ... I... I don't actually have it... I can't believe I had a dream about little dwarf and skipped dream about going to school naked... Will add it today :D

I added most of the proposed dreams so far except for the ones I'm planning to introduce as part of a future updates (the linked dreams from Backrevol) : )

I remember a dream from a long while ago where I was a small animal (I think it was a raccoon?) in a random windy forest. It was pretty nice even if all I did was wander around and occasionally see other creatures, and at some point I think I befriended a groundhog. I'm not too sure on how it ended but the last thing I vaguely remember was seeing buildings over a hill.

I also had an idea that if a colonist is disturbed in their sleep, there might be a chance for them to get a thought about being woken up from a dream (good or bad)?

Overall I'm pretty excited to see where this mod goes! Giving a few more mechanics to something as simple as sleeping can do a whole lot for making the game more interesting, yeah? ^^