Nightmares

I thought it'd be impossible to experience something as scary as Flower's terrifying rain/lightning level; naturally that means my dreams last night managed to top it. Last night's dreams were about Von Neumann machines taking over civilization and I was the only one who realized what was happening. These particular machines started out small and masqueraded as friendly pets who loved to eat anything, growing bigger and bigger. They looked like small red gift boxes, with teeth. I'm still not sure if they were actually malign - it all seemed to happen offscreen, or perhaps because I was so paranoid about them.

Anyways... I haven't mentioned Flower before, but I should - only picked it up recently, it was one of the original games for the PS3 arcade. The gameplay basically can be described as you playing through the dreams of a flower, where you control a petal and how the wind blows it around. It's absolutely gorgeous and very serene. The only exception is one level near the end, which is absolutely necessary to the story they tell but is also very very scary - you might find it hard to believe how scared one can get for a tiny flower petal [or group of them], but man. Much scarier than hordes of zombies, for sure.