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This morning probably fuelled by little sleep I had one of the most intense dreams I can recall.
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I don't remember all the lead-up dreams - there were at least 3, this becomes relevant later. Of these (which cut in and out of each other a bit):
- one was about trying to avoid a flood or flood-surge and was set around the stables and woolshed paddock where I grew up. It switched frequently with
- another which was about a law being passed in [small nordic country that doesn't really exist]; this law was to do with state surveillance and law enforcement. Everyone's (in the country) opinions had been collected and sorted (out me in mind of the Share an Idea process here post-quake) and a representative selection of submissions and questions were being put to the parliament in a nationally televised debate, after which everyone was going to vote.
-- one of the comments written in the past tense made reference to the difficulties in the flood (or some other recent disaster) of not having anyone clearly identified as the people to go to for help - from this I understood that the country did not have a standing police force which may have been one aspect of the legislation
-- past tense not withstanding the flood from the other dream periodically threatened to swamp either proceedings or the means by which I was following them - not sure which
- the main one which eventually became consistent was some sort of group of (heroes + animal companions + spirit animals) combine to form animal-hybrid style super mecha - they fight dragons (and mecha-dragons and other bad guys).
-- That was the general theme, there were some exceptions particularly one who looked a lot like Goku who just got *really big* and got a bit of armour and a voltron-type sword which was invariably used as the last-ditch weapon to defeat the bad guys.
-- while the biggest baddest dragon was out some goblins snuck into his lair and in and stole enough uber-powerful magic items from his hoard to make themselves a powerful third party. I'll write some of that up in a separate gaming-related post. One of the items (or rather the reason the dragon left it in his hoard rather than making use of it) eventually ended up with the heroes and led to another half-dozen hero/companion/spirit combinations being unlocked - the only one I can remember clearly was a shark-elephant combination.
-- one of the others was incomplete - the mecha was kind of hamster like and hamster-size and the hero was shrunk down and trapped in it. I (to that point an observer) managed to find some developer's notes which indicated that a) it was 3rd-party content never completed because the guy had received a proper job offer b) enough information to finish the process if the other dozen-odd heroes undertook a quest - which was going to be the next season story arc as this was the season finale. They then were all locked away in a magical training facility for 10 years to train / vision quest until they were next needed.
That was the preliminaries.
After the show I had to get back to whatever it was I was supposed to be doing - possibly work. To achieve this I had to fly/powered freefall down back through the scenes of all the previous dreams - plus a few others including some supers stuff - passing Superman at one or more points, dodging a sentinel that someone had parked in the way, down the middle of a rocky narrow eternal stair through time that a group of the the X-Men were trapped climbing at several points (after the first time I passed them Wolverine took a swipe at me each time I went past - another obstacle to be avoided).
I had to keep flying faster and faster - think Neo at the end of the Matrix pulling out all the stops to get to Trinity. It got to the point where I was going so far the only thing I could see was off to the right a sort of static charge built up that I knew from experience would hit and cause something to explode when I stopped if I didn't slow down in such a way as to steer it off.
Then I was pulled out of the flight into nothingness as if someone from an adjacent dimension had just dipped a net into my dreamstream and fished me out. By nothingness - everywhere off in most directions was just *complete* void (I floated off into it for a bit at one point) and I was suspended at the edge. There were two people examining me from a platform trying to figure out who I was and what was wrong with me. I played possumm until I managed to get my hands on a sort of rubbery two-bladed staff (just in case) and demand (that's a bit of a strong word) to know where I was. They didn't tell me but after some roaming around various kind of weird and mostly malfunctioning somehow areas in the sort-of-space-station attached to the platform I somehow reached the conclusion that I was in fact inside my own brain, or a real-time representation thereof.
- Trapped in there I encountered JPR who was being herded by some women (possibly Amazons) who planned to throw him in a pit the tear him apart and eat him. I fended them off long enough to find out that he had been there since 2008, or maybe that was the time I was trying to get to.
-- I had to let him go back to the Amazons because he was determined to prove he could beat / convert them.
- the only malfunction I specifically remember from this part is an area where an entire section of workings was missing - because I never got them in the first place possibly due to my unusual pattern (lack) of social contact growing up
The next bit involved me exploring more trying to find the right elevator (all Tardis-themed, mostly not working) which would take me down to a lower level / simultaneously back through time. Eventually got where I was going which was a cavern-sized rats nest of cables and lights like Xmas lights. The first person I met there was a girl/young woman of maybe 16, I can't remember what she told me then but the next person I met (a late-middle-aged woman) told me that the girl had discovered one of the fundamental secrets of the universe, but if I wanted to know it I'd need to find her again and persuade her to tell me. I never did get back to do that.
This second person was also sort of the caretaker of the cavern but she'd mostly given up on it because there were already "five others" (with the implication like me) who just wandered in and out unplugging and plugging things as the felt like it. As it turned out I was also carrying a plug, she reluctantly tracked down an empty socket for me. At this point I had a choice - looking at the plug there was on big connection which basically represented raw power (a light blue) and a smaller plug (can't remember the colour) which I knew represented two actual functions but would provide less power in total. I went with the second which lit up red (for intellect / learning abstract thought) and green? for emotion and caring. At this point I apparently sprouted a few more plugs and the caretaker with more enthusiasm found me some more sockets - even unplugging some things. These sockets were lit but the plugs I put in (at her direction) weren't necessarily of the same colour - I particularly remember a red socket that maybe a blue? went into.
The everything started moving and organising itself out and the caretaker told me that everything was all right now and [some identifier I can't recall but which turned out to be God] (which I was unimpressed by but grudgingly acknowledged) would straighten everything out. Then I was flying again, but this time I was flying along ((sucked along really) above the cables which stretched out like a long brown highway, then turned into a woman's long hair wrapped around her body several times. From her shoulders sort of spread out the world - or at least a (Simpsons) Springfield sized town which I were I ended up - accompanied by some rousing theme song / musical number about regular people being able to be heroes.
I didn't quite reach the destination - felt a bit unfinished - before I woke up - one of those rare wake-ups where you emerge smoothly from a dream to wide awake and alert, but relaxed and feeling good about yourself. (Also frustratingly horny.)
~~~
Between the dream and the little bit of sleep I got between going to bed and the first Hall alarm and a bit if a lie in after I think I'm running on about four hours sleep today.
~~~
I don't remember all the lead-up dreams - there were at least 3, this becomes relevant later. Of these (which cut in and out of each other a bit):
- one was about trying to avoid a flood or flood-surge and was set around the stables and woolshed paddock where I grew up. It switched frequently with
- another which was about a law being passed in [small nordic country that doesn't really exist]; this law was to do with state surveillance and law enforcement. Everyone's (in the country) opinions had been collected and sorted (out me in mind of the Share an Idea process here post-quake) and a representative selection of submissions and questions were being put to the parliament in a nationally televised debate, after which everyone was going to vote.
-- one of the comments written in the past tense made reference to the difficulties in the flood (or some other recent disaster) of not having anyone clearly identified as the people to go to for help - from this I understood that the country did not have a standing police force which may have been one aspect of the legislation
-- past tense not withstanding the flood from the other dream periodically threatened to swamp either proceedings or the means by which I was following them - not sure which
- the main one which eventually became consistent was some sort of group of (heroes + animal companions + spirit animals) combine to form animal-hybrid style super mecha - they fight dragons (and mecha-dragons and other bad guys).
-- That was the general theme, there were some exceptions particularly one who looked a lot like Goku who just got *really big* and got a bit of armour and a voltron-type sword which was invariably used as the last-ditch weapon to defeat the bad guys.
-- while the biggest baddest dragon was out some goblins snuck into his lair and in and stole enough uber-powerful magic items from his hoard to make themselves a powerful third party. I'll write some of that up in a separate gaming-related post. One of the items (or rather the reason the dragon left it in his hoard rather than making use of it) eventually ended up with the heroes and led to another half-dozen hero/companion/spirit combinations being unlocked - the only one I can remember clearly was a shark-elephant combination.
-- one of the others was incomplete - the mecha was kind of hamster like and hamster-size and the hero was shrunk down and trapped in it. I (to that point an observer) managed to find some developer's notes which indicated that a) it was 3rd-party content never completed because the guy had received a proper job offer b) enough information to finish the process if the other dozen-odd heroes undertook a quest - which was going to be the next season story arc as this was the season finale. They then were all locked away in a magical training facility for 10 years to train / vision quest until they were next needed.
That was the preliminaries.
After the show I had to get back to whatever it was I was supposed to be doing - possibly work. To achieve this I had to fly/powered freefall down back through the scenes of all the previous dreams - plus a few others including some supers stuff - passing Superman at one or more points, dodging a sentinel that someone had parked in the way, down the middle of a rocky narrow eternal stair through time that a group of the the X-Men were trapped climbing at several points (after the first time I passed them Wolverine took a swipe at me each time I went past - another obstacle to be avoided).
I had to keep flying faster and faster - think Neo at the end of the Matrix pulling out all the stops to get to Trinity. It got to the point where I was going so far the only thing I could see was off to the right a sort of static charge built up that I knew from experience would hit and cause something to explode when I stopped if I didn't slow down in such a way as to steer it off.
Then I was pulled out of the flight into nothingness as if someone from an adjacent dimension had just dipped a net into my dreamstream and fished me out. By nothingness - everywhere off in most directions was just *complete* void (I floated off into it for a bit at one point) and I was suspended at the edge. There were two people examining me from a platform trying to figure out who I was and what was wrong with me. I played possumm until I managed to get my hands on a sort of rubbery two-bladed staff (just in case) and demand (that's a bit of a strong word) to know where I was. They didn't tell me but after some roaming around various kind of weird and mostly malfunctioning somehow areas in the sort-of-space-station attached to the platform I somehow reached the conclusion that I was in fact inside my own brain, or a real-time representation thereof.
- Trapped in there I encountered JPR who was being herded by some women (possibly Amazons) who planned to throw him in a pit the tear him apart and eat him. I fended them off long enough to find out that he had been there since 2008, or maybe that was the time I was trying to get to.
-- I had to let him go back to the Amazons because he was determined to prove he could beat / convert them.
- the only malfunction I specifically remember from this part is an area where an entire section of workings was missing - because I never got them in the first place possibly due to my unusual pattern (lack) of social contact growing up
The next bit involved me exploring more trying to find the right elevator (all Tardis-themed, mostly not working) which would take me down to a lower level / simultaneously back through time. Eventually got where I was going which was a cavern-sized rats nest of cables and lights like Xmas lights. The first person I met there was a girl/young woman of maybe 16, I can't remember what she told me then but the next person I met (a late-middle-aged woman) told me that the girl had discovered one of the fundamental secrets of the universe, but if I wanted to know it I'd need to find her again and persuade her to tell me. I never did get back to do that.
This second person was also sort of the caretaker of the cavern but she'd mostly given up on it because there were already "five others" (with the implication like me) who just wandered in and out unplugging and plugging things as the felt like it. As it turned out I was also carrying a plug, she reluctantly tracked down an empty socket for me. At this point I had a choice - looking at the plug there was on big connection which basically represented raw power (a light blue) and a smaller plug (can't remember the colour) which I knew represented two actual functions but would provide less power in total. I went with the second which lit up red (for intellect / learning abstract thought) and green? for emotion and caring. At this point I apparently sprouted a few more plugs and the caretaker with more enthusiasm found me some more sockets - even unplugging some things. These sockets were lit but the plugs I put in (at her direction) weren't necessarily of the same colour - I particularly remember a red socket that maybe a blue? went into.
The everything started moving and organising itself out and the caretaker told me that everything was all right now and [some identifier I can't recall but which turned out to be God] (which I was unimpressed by but grudgingly acknowledged) would straighten everything out. Then I was flying again, but this time I was flying along ((sucked along really) above the cables which stretched out like a long brown highway, then turned into a woman's long hair wrapped around her body several times. From her shoulders sort of spread out the world - or at least a (Simpsons) Springfield sized town which I were I ended up - accompanied by some rousing theme song / musical number about regular people being able to be heroes.
I didn't quite reach the destination - felt a bit unfinished - before I woke up - one of those rare wake-ups where you emerge smoothly from a dream to wide awake and alert, but relaxed and feeling good about yourself. (Also frustratingly horny.)
~~~
Between the dream and the little bit of sleep I got between going to bed and the first Hall alarm and a bit if a lie in after I think I'm running on about four hours sleep today.
