March 25, 2024

Dream 255

I was doing research on how various animal bodies reduced to ash when exposed to heat sources.  This was done on dead specimens, so no animals were killed.  I had a collection of ashes in a kind of satchel that was loaded with small pockets, and I had everything sorted properly, but I wondered how I was going to deliver it.

It turned out that David Attenborough had a similar kind of satchel, and it fit inside a special pressure suit that was designed to withstand the heat of the sun.  He was using it to collect various sun samples, which he was going to transfer through the suit's room connection (a long, thick tube).  He told me that once he was done, he'd be happy to transfer my samples as well.

February 07, 2024

Dream 254

We were due to image and process a large number of PCs at work.  I volunteered to help out, though it wasn't normally part of my work.  The other guys were very pleased.

And they were so happy, they moved my bed into the imaging room so that I could wake up and begin working.  I was a bit taken aback by this, as I had no idea how they'd gotten my bed, but I was okay with it in the end.  I started arranging the sheets, wondering how I could sleep with all the noise--it sounded like a rocky coast, waves crashing into rock.

I settled down to sleep, and soon dreamt of the various mechanical races from the Doctor Who program.  There were the Daleks, Cybermen, and Monoids.  I remember seeing the Monoids standing on the shore (to give a size comparison) and thinking, "That's not what they looked like.  They didn't have a red multi-function arm that was as long as they were."

I woke up, feeling uneasy.

January 15, 2024

Dream 253

 I had been hired by a firm to do small jobs for various famous people.  At the moment, I was supposed to bring a deck of cards to Bob Dylan.  I decided to bring him a small notepad as well.

When I arrived at his room, I was extremely nervous, but he was very friendly and open. I nervously said, "Here's a deck of cards, Mr. Dylan, I'm pretty sure none of them will explode."

He laughed and said, "Wouldn't it be something if they did?"

December 22, 2023

Dream 252

I was staying at my ex-wife's house, doing odd jobs and things.  We were getting along fine, to the ppoint where she was wondering if getting back together might work out.  I wasn't really encouraging, though.

She took our sons to the grocery store.  After she left the house, I followed behind, taking care not to be seen.

She and our older son continued down the hill past the store, while my younger son went inside.  I headed back to the house.

I was working on a drawing of a submarine, trying to show various stages of it sinking below the surface, by depicting various shadows and such.  I couldn't find my art supplies, though.  I was going to put the drawing on my easel, but I couldn't find that either.  I put the drawing behind some bubble wrap and continued to look.

But before I continued the search, I decided to watch a video, so I put on a remake of a famous slasher movie.  It was the first film by a director who went on to be quite famous.  It was about a killer who haunted an abandoned auto junkyard.  Some people went from car to car, removing seats, and they decided to do the same for a couple of tractor trailer trucks.  It was very atmospheric and stylish.  For some reason, it was introduced by the cast of Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

I looked up from my search and my eyesight was blocked by a person I couldn't see.  She reached around and hugged me and brought me close to her chest.  I started kissing her.  I thought it was my ex-wife, but I realized I didn't know for certain.

November 09, 2023

Dream 251

 I was watching a horror movie about a murderous baby, much like "It's Alive."  The scene I was watching was right after the birth, when the baby had killed one of the nurses by chewing through her (this was more implied than seen).  You didn't get many glimpses of the baby, but the way it moved around seemed pretty ingenious for a special effect.

Mostly, people in the scene tried to keep still, or sit behind various pieces of furniture.

I suddenly found myself in the movie, sitting in a large easy chair.  I realized that I was not the mother or the father, or an important doctor--I was just a bystander, and thus was probably going to be killed.  I voiced this concern to the father, but he dismissed it.  I complimented him on the way the baby moved, "Not very realistic, but visually interesting" and he thanked me.

I put my arm down by the side of the chair and something bit me on the wrist.  I grimaced in pain and pulled my arm up; the baby was attached via his teeth.  He looked like a tiny man in a tuxedo, except his head was as large as my fist.  The father very calmly told me to grasp the baby, pull him off, and hand him to him.  I did so and examined my bite.  For all the pain, it seemed quite superficial.

Somehow the baby escaped again, and ended up in a shopping mall.  There was a report on television, and it cut to a cartoonish Old West sheriff's face, vowing to get the baby.  The camera pulled back and we could see that the cowboy's face was on a screen on a mobile video arcade game.

October 05, 2023

Dream 250

I was on Mars with J. Michael Strazynski.  We were going through a series of Backrooms-like rooms, warmly colored rooms with dull brownish carpet.  JMS was following a small man with closely cropped hair, who was bouncing like a bubble from room to room.  His face was a stoic scowl, except when JMS and I were guessing about the nature of this place; then his face assumed a disgusted smirk.

Most of the rooms had a large, loosely wrapped cardboard box in the center of the floor.  These contained small cushions, about the size of a piece of paper and about an inch thick.  JMS was duly collecting these.  We came across one box that, when opened, revealed some kind of couch-easy chair that was disassembled.  "I can't carry that," JMS smiled.

I spotted a dolly, and wheeled it over and loaded the parts onto it.  JMS had already left this room, so I hastened to follow.

In the corridor outside, I met a crazed-seeming man with a huge collection of spears.  He would demonstrate these by thrusting them to within half an inch to my face, while he shouted out trivia about The Matrix movies and how to pronounce the Wachowski's name.  

Finally, I grabbed one of the spears when he thrust it at me.  "Stop doing that!" I said, and he appeared to come out of some kind of trance.  I looked around to see if I could find JMS, but all I saw was endless corridors.

September 05, 2023

Dream 249

I was walking up a stairway in a large house when there was an enormous THUMP on the wall beside me.  I hurried up the stairs and went toward the room that it seemed to come from.

It turned out to be actor Timothy Dalton who was recreating Errol Flynn's greatest film scenes--only the scenes were not amazing stunts, but slamming into walls.  He appeared to be bruised but was otherwise cheerful and enthusiastic.