So, Ringman had a Pokemon dream recently. He said that in it, he and I were hunting Pokemon locally. They didn't look like cartoons or CGI, but like real animals. Like heavily-Photoshopped real animals, only freaky because they apparently hit the Uncanny Valley. Realistic but... weird. And their calls weren't them saying their names, but realistic interpretations on the in-game calls. His best description for that was to imagine a parrot mimicking the calls.
Ringman said that the Pokemon didn't stay in their balls all the time, either. They would usually follow us around, or cling to us in some fashion. I had a Hoothoot (which he said was a very unsettling creature, being a realistic owl with exaggerated features and one weird leg) that would sit on my shoulder.
He had encountered a Wooper and caught it. It apparently looked like some slimy blob with what appeared to be a TV aerial through its head, as if it had met with a very unfortunate accident. The Wooper, after he caught it, sat on his head, and he said he could feel the toes in his hair.
Our travels took us to a sewer, where I was excited to capture a Ratata. The Ratata were the size of small dogs, with wet fur so deep purple that it looked almost black. They had gnarly, nasty teeth that Ringman was afraid would take off his fingers, or really hurt his Wooper. He feared that the Ratata, being sewer-dwellers, would transmit some horrible disease, and "we'd find out how nasty Pokerus really is when I have to take my Wooper to Nurse Joy because it has rabies and is shitting needles, and the PokeCenter makes me pay them through the nose."
Eventually, we go to a cave and find a bunch of Drowzee. I found a shiny Drowzee, and it was bio-luminescent with translucent pink skin, so you could see its veins and organs. I apparently caught the Drowzee, and Ringman said that its eyelids were transparent, so even though it had the drooping eyes, in the right light, you could see the entire eyeball and it looked weird. It was also hairless.
I'll ask him if he remembers any more, but those are the bullet points.