The Cristal Dream. -

[Satoru182]

The Cristal dream is one of the defining factors of CWC’s adult life.
To have a daughter with his sweetheart, name her Cristal and have an office job. In order to accomplish this dream he must find her white, slender, attractive and caring sweetheart from ground-up. So he started the love quest. That’s quite a detailed dream isn’t?
When I was a kid I had a nightmare, I dream that my mother died, actually did not see her die but the people around me were talking about that and, in the dream I knew it. I woke up crying and my mother comforted me telling that it was just a dream. I actually don’t remember the dream itself but the talk I had with my mother about it.
Usually people forget dreams shortly after waking up its not something that remains in the long term memory unless its really intense.
So I have the theory that Chris ridiculous dream was reinforced by his parents. He told Borb about it and they though it was cute that their little retard dreamed that he could be a person. So they talked about that and all of their friends. And some of the religious folks at their church probably planted the idea of a god given dream on Chris autistic brain.
What do you guys think?

 

[derpi]

The Cristal dream is one of the defining factors of CWC’s adult life.
To have a daughter with his sweetheart, name her Cristal and have an office job. In order to accomplish this dream he must find her white, slender, attractive and caring sweetheart from ground-up. So he started the love quest. That’s quite a detailed dream isn’t?
When I was a kid I had a nightmare, I dream that my mother died, actually did not see her die but the people around me were talking about that and, in the dream I knew it. I woke up crying and my mother comforted me telling that it was just a dream. I actually don’t remember the dream itself but the talk I had with my mother about it.
Usually people forget dreams shortly after waking up its not something that remains in the long term memory unless its really intense.
So I have the theory that Chris ridiculous dream was reinforced by his parents. He told Borb about it and they though it was cute that their little exceptional individual dreamed that he could be a person. So they talked about that and all of their friends. And some of the religious folks at their church probably planted the idea of a god given dream on Chris autistic brain.
What do you guys think?

That actually makes a lot of sense...
Although I'm sure that after the grim reaper thing with Bob's death he's less optimistic about the Crystal thing...

 

[Marvin]

The Cristal dream is one of the defining factors of CWC’s adult life.
To have a daughter with his sweetheart, name her Cristal and have an office job. In order to accomplish this dream he must find her white, slender, attractive and caring sweetheart from ground-up. So he started the love quest. That’s quite a detailed dream isn’t?
When I was a kid I had a nightmare, I dream that my mother died, actually did not see her die but the people around me were talking about that and, in the dream I knew it. I woke up crying and my mother comforted me telling that it was just a dream. I actually don’t remember the dream itself but the talk I had with my mother about it.
Usually people forget dreams shortly after waking up its not something that remains in the long term memory unless its really intense.
So I have the theory that Chris ridiculous dream was reinforced by his parents. He told Borb about it and they though it was cute that their little exceptional individual dreamed that he could be a person. So they talked about that and all of their friends. And some of the religious folks at their church probably planted the idea of a god given dream on Chris autistic brain.
What do you guys think?

Unless they were koolaid drinking crazies, I doubt the church told Chris too explicitly that the dream was from god. Chris can always read whatever he wants into a story, so he could've wrote his own story, but this was, what, when he was a kid? I doubt it. And I can't imagine Borb saying too much of a complicated explanation. Really, I just think that this was one particular dream that stuck with Chris, and he developed on it as he grew older.

I mean, I had some dreams and nightmares that stuck with me for awhile. Probably throughout high school. Past high school, I started to grow up and stopped caring, I think. But Chris didn't really grow up, though.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Unless they were koolaid drinking crazies, I doubt the church told Chris too explicitly that the dream was from god.

I'm sure the church had nothing to do with it. Chris dreams of something he likes, then wakes up and decides God directly endorses it because that way it's validated. He can't comprehend that something he wants isn't automatically owed to him by the powers-that-be of the universe.

 

[Bugaboo]

Maybe Borb told Chris that God made dreams when he asked where do dreams come from. Or he's confusing dreams with psyhic visions.
But all in all, that's a pretty boring dream to remember all those years.

 

[Marvin]

Maybe Borb told Chris that God made dreams when he asked where do dreams come from. Or he's confusing dreams with psyhic visions.
But all in all, that's a pretty boring dream to remember all those years.

Eh, possibly. Really, I think that it just doesn't take much effort for Chris to decide a set of visions are premonitions. He's a simpleton who watches too much TV. Maybe he just watched the wrong TV at a given point. I think that's all it needed to take.

 

[Some JERK]

i don't think it's even close to that complicated. He had a dream that he had a daughter, and decided that it was prophetic. Remember that Chris was genuinely upset that the Grim Reaper lied to him in a dream about Bob's impending death. He doesn't understand that dreams are just parts of your brain spinning their wheels in a stimuli vacuum. To Chris, anything that brings him happiness to think about is something that he genuinely deserves to have.

 

[Zim]

Due to Chris being amazingly stupid, he probably just had an abnormally vivid dream and tricked/trolled himself into believing that since it was so realy feeling that it had to be a vision of the future.

If he did tell his parents about it I'm sure they just told reinforced his absurd ideas.

 

[QI 541]

It's not a coincidence his prophetic dreams happen to be exactly what he wants.

 

[IanBrannanSOMETHING]

Replace "office" with "bedroom" and "job" with "vidya", and you'll get closer to what the dream actually meant.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

A lot of simple-minded people think that dreams have precognitive (prophetic) power. Barb probably told Chris some BS along these lines. And Chris being Chris, his favorite prophetic dream was not about being an astronaut who travels to Mars, but about living like a 1950s sitcom character. It's just another function of Chris's media consumption habits.

 

[Bridechu]

I think a lot of it is in Chris's "magical thinking", referred to in the CWCki as "Chris the Shaman". He wants that to be true, like his dream about the Grim Reaper, so he interprets it as true. People interpreting random things to be about them is a symptom of a lot of mental conditions.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

It's not a coincidence his prophetic dreams happen to be exactly what he wants.

That's a good point. In the Bible, if I remember right, a lot of people who received prophecies and visions from God, well... they weren't pleasant visions. That's why those prophets were so lauded, because they put aside what they wanted for their lives to fulfill God's plan.

Chris does the opposite. He puts aside God's plan so he can have what he wants.

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

It's not a coincidence his prophetic dreams happen to be exactly what he wants.

That's a good point. In the Bible, if I remember right, a lot of people who received prophecies and visions from God, well... they weren't pleasant visions. That's why those prophets were so lauded, because they put aside what they wanted for their lives to fulfill God's plan.

Chris does the opposite. He puts aside God's plan so he can have what he wants.

Chris cherry-picks the things that make him feel good, while ignoring things that give him prickly-wrickles. This is evidenced in the following places:

1.) "Prophesized" dreams. Chris has no problem believing that the Crystal Dream will come true or that Bob wasn't meant to go until 2015, but the things that cause him distress he either never mentions or chalks up to another influence.

2.) Bible stories. Chris has no problem pulling stories like "The Forgiveness Story" or all those passages from Leviticus lambasting da homos, but Bible passages like "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven" or "as you judge, so shall you be judged" get completely left by the wayside. In fact, he complains about it when the minister of a church actively tries to teach him religious doctrine.

3.) Vidya. He likes God of War because it has DYKES! DYKES! CHINA! and he likes LBP and Modnation because they're cute, colorful, and allow him to crowbar in Sonichu. But video games that actively challenge the medium are, by the most part, noticeably absent. Chris has never played Spec Ops: The Line. He barely got into Bioshock at all.

4.) Movies and television. Chris by and large watches TV and movies aimed at twelve-year-old girls or eight-year-old boys. The few movies that he has watched that are outside this genre are things like Smiley and Saw, and he probably enjoyed those because he could imagine DA TWOLLS being cast in the role of the victims.

5.) Food. All Sheetz, McDonald's, Hungry Man or similar foods, all the time. No Subway. No tuna. No veggies.

6.) Cross dressing and gender identity. Chris is more than happy to scream that he's a tomgirl, but in the same breath scream that he's straight. This is because Chris takes the two things from "tomgirlism" that he likes--ie, still being a perfectly straight alpha male, but also being able to wear women's clothing--without considering the contradiction that many people derive from that.

The entirety of Chris's existence is seeking out the things that release dopamine--the chemical that gives him pleasure. Mindless trophies on PS3 games, soda pop, fast food, sparkle twilight princess ponies, feel-good chick flicks and positive dreams. Chris has effectively conditioned himself to believe that he should be happy, all the time, and then becomes quickly distressed when he isn't. (Also of note is that the body becomes resistant to dopamine after a while, meaning that it becomes harder and harder for Chris to feel pleasure from his limited surroundings.)

TL;DR version: Chris latched on to the Crystal Dream because it made him feel like a grown-up when he was a kid, and he latches on to it now because he remembers that it used to make him feel good.

 

[Ryan Rash]

You ever fall asleep while the TV is on, and whatever is on TV while you sleep influences your dreams?

I think that's how the Crystal dream came to be: once upon a time, Chris took a snooze cruise while some old '50s sitcom (I wanna say "Leave It to Beaver") was on TV Land, and some of the things from the show influenced his dream so that he came home from a hard day's work at the office to a loving wife and a doting daughter who has a hooker's name.

 

[EzioCanLeapofFaith]

I think it was just a dream and Chris just decided to believe in it.
Kind of like his Curseyehamehas. Nobody probably told him they worked, yet he still chooses to believe they do.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Chris latched on to the Crystal Dream because it made him feel like a grown-up when he was a kid, and he latches on to it now because he remembers that it used to make him feel good.

This is probably true of everything Chris has liked for any significant length of time.

 

[The Dude]

The entirety of Chris's existence is seeking out the things that release dopamine--the chemical that gives him pleasure. Mindless trophies on PS3 games, soda pop, fast food, sparkle twilight princess ponies, feel-good chick flicks and positive dreams. Chris has effectively conditioned himself to believe that he should be happy, all the time, and then becomes quickly distressed when he isn't. (Also of note is that the body becomes resistant to dopamine after a while, meaning that it becomes harder and harder for Chris to feel pleasure from his limited surroundings.)

TL;DR version: Chris latched on to the Crystal Dream because it made him feel like a grown-up when he was a kid, and he latches on to it now because he remembers that it used to make him feel good.

This is one reason I'm glad Chris hasn't tried drugs. He seems like the kind of person who would get into a horrible addiction because it makes him feel good and helps him shut out the real world.

 

[pickleniggo]

The entirety of Chris's existence is seeking out the things that release dopamine--the chemical that gives him pleasure. Mindless trophies on PS3 games, soda pop, fast food, sparkle twilight princess ponies, feel-good chick flicks and positive dreams. Chris has effectively conditioned himself to believe that he should be happy, all the time, and then becomes quickly distressed when he isn't. (Also of note is that the body becomes resistant to dopamine after a while, meaning that it becomes harder and harder for Chris to feel pleasure from his limited surroundings.)

TL;DR version: Chris latched on to the Crystal Dream because it made him feel like a grown-up when he was a kid, and he latches on to it now because he remembers that it used to make him feel good.

This is one reason I'm glad Chris hasn't tried drugs. He seems like the kind of person who would get into a horrible addiction because it makes him feel good and helps him shut out the real world.

Yeah the last thing we'd need is Chris ranting and raving to imaginary beings about his failed love quest and life. Oh wait.

I have to wonder if a few short years ago Chris dreamed that he was the most FIERCE, FABULOUS tomgirl that ever existed, and rolled with it.

 

[waffle]

Chris on drugs may not be distinguishable form "regular" Chris circa 2007-08. Currently he is just a depressed blob, but at the time he was a massive jumble of confused emotions, grandiose ideas that bordered on delusional, magical thinking and an insistence that its all real and important. Pretty much sounds exactly like the people that smoke a lot of PCP/special-K laced joints doesn't it?