Was considering the sleeping aspect of the game, and feel it to be merely a leveling up requirement, or a timekiller as you wait for the shops to open. Had an idea that could potentially spice it up -> adding dreams.

These would occur randomly when sleeping, and not be an every sleep/new dream sort of thing. The dreams would involve a short cinematic, with either a horror, action/heroic or social feel to them. They would draw upon the characters personal experience, such as encounters with monsters, meetings with other friendly NPCs or current/past quests.This would provide an incentice of sorts to encourage sleeping, and could make the chorelike experience into something more memorable.

Just a thought, let me know what you think

In Morrowind a Werewolf received his quests from Hercine in his dreams, and a vampire recieved text based nightmares, so it has been done before. They could always have a slight chance of traveling to an Oblivion plane in your dreams, not just the Deadlands or the Quagmire but any plane of Oblivion. Would be cool if you slept at a Daedric shrine you'd be brought to their plane. So all in all cool idea, like it. Still I'd say it belongs in the suggestion and ideas thread. Try to remember that one next time.

flashbacks to events from ES IV as you learn more about the events that took place would be awesome. Hearing about events from the previous game goes down well -> take mass effect for example. If your past life in the next game is not known, the possibilities for cinematics are endless... you couldv been around to Morrowind, the Imperial city, Hammerfell etc before you rocked up in Skyrim

You dream of the moon and of a man, who is less than a man.

OH ok, let me try to flesh out this idea a bit.

so at random times in the game you have dreams, dreams are sometimes interactive and other times are cinematic.

dreams could be prophetic, memory, nightmare, sensual/love , deep and meaningful, odd or just plain f**ing crazy or another variation of dream i haven't thought of.

examples of interactive dreams

Memory example
a memory it could take you to another time and part of the empire to re-live something about your past,
ill propose a memory of a time you visited highrock to speak with your old master.
he/she wishes to see how far your training/learning has progressed over the years, and proves to you that you are still naive in your use of [insert skill here]
in this dream you learn a bit of combat/spell/etc. knowledge and gain a point in the skill you trained.

Nightmare example
say in a nightmare you are being chased by faceless man with a torch and a dagger [or a fearsome beast that can smell fear], YOU have to hide or fight back to survive, fighting is a bad idea because if you die you wake up, but should you win you gain a level [opponent should be HARD], but if you hide properly you can overhear him talking about something- this piece of information is useful in guiding you to a treasure/quest location of relevant importance and you leave with a new entry in your journal and a day long stat buff. OR if you escape you gain a point in the skill of your choosing.

and cinematic variants of dreams also. that may or may not effect you physically but may provide a quest or information on a subject.
i would say prophetic dreams would be the most valuable of the cinematics
or in a crazy dream sheogorath may come up to you and wabajack your dog into an orgrim and make it give you a big fat kiss. XD
or would that be considered sensual/love

hey op- im bumping your thread for you, :wink_smile:
im sad to see nobody taking interest in this, especially considering that it is something that could be done even in morrowind.
does ANYONE have any further thoughts on possible dream expansion in Skyrim?

there was one honest to goodness dream that you went into for Oblivion but I forgot what it was. And unless the dream has something to do with a quest I dont want it, I mean how many dreams do you remember?

You know, I like the idea a lot... but I'm having a hard time to think how it actually would be implemented.
Would the game be recorded all the time, and then choose by some smart script certain parts... to dream about?

Personally, it would be coolest that, depending on what side you take in the main quest (assuming there are mulitple sides), you dream about different things that has occured in the main quest.

As long as dreaming is implemented well... in a smart way, I'm definitely for it.

If your dreams were just a gentle slideshow of blurry or sketched screenshots silently taken by the game at certain actions you've done, it would already be UBER FANTASTIC and implementable!

The work to make generated movies or possibly the processing power to record so much stuff, makes it rather inviable.

See my related feature request, http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1159161-feature-request-sleeping-is-more-important. I also added dreams as a suggestion.

Actually, I love this idea.

Even more elaborate though. An automatically edited replay of sorts. The game would save bits here and there as you progress based on defined criteria, then after, say a week, or however long it takes to build up relevant material, the game plays it back to you (with a distorted layer befitting the type of dream) as your character sleep.

Perhaps something for TES X