Dreams and A Scanner Darkly
Jul. 23rd, 2006 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Dreams were severa and multi layered, but the Majority of my concern rests in the dream in which Me, John Crichton, and Scorpius were hanging around a house, taking turns playing this game, played in a three dimensional reconstrustion of a house with a fourth-dimensional component. It changed over time. The house opened up, and you moved from room to room, finding out the meaning of the house, and the purpose of your place in the rooms. You collected these little pieces, and you could fit them in a machine, which was the size of the House, but in the same place as the House. You had to move through a certain angle to see the machinery. John, Scorpius, and I started trying to manipulate the machine, such that we didn't have to go through the rooms. We were trying to get a path/stairwell to swing over to these things that looked like stairs, on top of this group of cogs. The cogs were loose plastic, shaped like those rings that let you know if your soda's been opened, but much more flexible. We spent time re-arranging them, and fixing things.
Other parts of the dream included Heathclif Huxtible having to get brain surgery, in an auditorium style room. Then there was a giant school/church lock-in style social function, where in there were many of you, people in livejournal land, and many characters from comics and video games. Facilitating lesbian hook-ups, and sliding around the floor in my socks. Me![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mech_angel, kittenspeaks, and jessicarabbitt trying to find a better pool hall, and me trying to remember exactly where one was, but I was beginning to suspect it didn't exist; that I had hallucinated the other pool hall. cailement was there,talking about how she thought there would be more people like her, at a professedly geeky lock-in. More people she didn't know. It was like a directed DragonCon.
I blame the weird structure of those dreams on watching "A Scanner Darkly," last night. Which was awesome, by the way. There were pretentious, preppy, indie kids (yes, you can do all three), who had obviously never read anything by Philip K. Dick, prior to seeing this movie. They didn't understand the flow of character movement, and how what happens to the People is many times more important than what you may think is the over-all "plot." I know that sounds pretentious, itself, but think about it this way: Dick wove commonality of experience around people, things they did, together, but there's not "plot" outside of what happens to One of those people. It's the working at understanding This person's life, and thereby shedding light on the situation in which he finds himself, and the people he knows.
There. Now that i've Book-Geeked, for a bit, go see the damned movie. It's beautifully woven, and the look matches and makes the feel, and the music was awesome, and all done by Thom Yorke, if you like that kind of thing.
Now is time for breakfast.
Word of Today: Viva
Yesterday: Books
Friday: Situation
Other parts of the dream included Heathclif Huxtible having to get brain surgery, in an auditorium style room. Then there was a giant school/church lock-in style social function, where in there were many of you, people in livejournal land, and many characters from comics and video games. Facilitating lesbian hook-ups, and sliding around the floor in my socks. Me
mech_angel, kittenspeaks, and jessicarabbitt trying to find a better pool hall, and me trying to remember exactly where one was, but I was beginning to suspect it didn't exist; that I had hallucinated the other pool hall. cailement was there,talking about how she thought there would be more people like her, at a professedly geeky lock-in. More people she didn't know. It was like a directed DragonCon.I blame the weird structure of those dreams on watching "A Scanner Darkly," last night. Which was awesome, by the way. There were pretentious, preppy, indie kids (yes, you can do all three), who had obviously never read anything by Philip K. Dick, prior to seeing this movie. They didn't understand the flow of character movement, and how what happens to the People is many times more important than what you may think is the over-all "plot." I know that sounds pretentious, itself, but think about it this way: Dick wove commonality of experience around people, things they did, together, but there's not "plot" outside of what happens to One of those people. It's the working at understanding This person's life, and thereby shedding light on the situation in which he finds himself, and the people he knows.
There. Now that i've Book-Geeked, for a bit, go see the damned movie. It's beautifully woven, and the look matches and makes the feel, and the music was awesome, and all done by Thom Yorke, if you like that kind of thing.
Now is time for breakfast.
Word of Today: Viva
Yesterday: Books
Friday: Situation
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Date: 2006-07-23 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
And yes. It's awesome.
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Date: 2006-07-23 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject