Nightmare Vision - Brainstorming and IntCheck

Dreams, such an ephemeral thing are they, or at least they were until a strange occurrence started to make them much more relevant to the lives of the dreamers than they wished they were. It started small, the people starting to remember their dreams with more and more precision until the dreams started to be linked to their emotion of the day. They sometimes turned into nightmare, nightmare that started to get worse as the dreams merged together and strange creatures started to inhabit the Dream World and Nightmare Worlds respectively. Then the Dream world was absorbed with it's darker counterpart and things got serious with dreadful visions spilling into the Waking world and people starting to die of fright in their sleep.

It had to stop.

Churches and scientific orders decided to stop the phenomenon before the other and even more importantly before the entire human race was turned into chaos. They sent team after team of reconnaissance agents put into prolonged sleep in hope of stopping the menace only to make it worse by their tumultuous emotions. The world was doomed, their therefore said and many gave up on life altogether or turned to drugs to alley their suffering. All had lost hope but for one mental hospital that started to use their patient as guinea pigs in hope of stopping the onslaught of disturbing visions.

Will the patients' insanity be the key to salvation?

This will be a study on the human psyche as we will make both mental patient character, doctors, nurses and darkling characters as the story will unfold. Darklings are being inhabiting the Dream World created by the fear and anger of the dreamer when they are going about their journey in the world of the dreamers. The timeline will be in mordern day and we will go through both night and day, the days being a time of reflection and healing and the night one of investigation and survival.

Is anyone interested in pushing this idea further?

Bumping it up, I would like if this was in the turn of the century (20th, that is).

Interesting concept; I'd be interested to see how many people get on board and hammer out the details.

I'm glad you think so, hopefully others will do so as well!

I'd be very interested, preferably as a member of the staff.

Great! Anything you would like to add to the plot or setting?

The plot... not really. I'm sure something'll pop up later. :)

As for the setting, I have one question. You mention "turn of the 20th century" - does that mean around 1800 or around 1900?

That means the start of the 1900s :).