Strange dream
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kengrI just woke up from an extraordinary dream.
Well, it was a eries of dreams with the usual illogical transitions.
I won't go into the earlier sequences, just the last one.
In it I had a paycheck belong to a friend or friend of a friend. The backstory (I think from a dream I've had in the past, yes I have dreams that sometimes repeat over long periods or "resume" after long periods) was that it'd gotten picked up for hoime by someone (possibly, me, but that didn't jibe with some of what was going on in this dream, and didn't jibe in a wauy that's out of pattern for my dreams "illogic").
Anyway the cjek which I was tring to take back to his job, so he could get it (apparently easier in the dream than actually getting it directly to him) was having typical combo of real-world/dream world problems. Apparently his job was at location A, and something medical. But to get the check to the "right" place, I had to take it to building B several miles away. Someone helpfully printed out some bit of paper I'd need to get past stufflike security.
At the point the dream got extraordinary, I'd shown the paper to someone at a building across from location A and they were looking something up or on the phone. I was waiting and having a bunch of papers and stuff in my hands I started going thru them.
The check had been stuck inside some sort of folded brochure. Totally unrelated, just something to protect it a bit and it may hace had directions to location A on it.
Now, I have to note one oddity about my dreams. I can't read in them. Or rather, I can see printed material, but if I try to look at it in detail it's a bunch of meaningless letter-like shapes.This has relevance here.
I do dream in color, though often it's not something I notice much. In this case it was very important.
Inside the folded brochure (it was about the size of a tri-folded letter) I found a small booklet. Paper folded to be 2-3" square. It came across as "cheap". Very thin paper that gave the impression of cheaps, possibly a bit because it was so thin/flimsy. But it was also *very* white paper.
Here's where it starts getting extraordinary. The booklet was "obviously" something that'd accidentally got into the brochure. It was totally unrelated and felt amateurish. I had the impression (recall that I can't actually read it in detail) that it was something about kids/family. On the second page there was a small color picture. Not glossy magazine quality, but at least decent inkjet or laser printing.
It *moved*. Like a couple of seconds of video clip!!
In my dream I was startled. I didn't believe my eyes at first. This was *not* a dream set in the future or an SF sort of place/time. There was another one on another page. The booklet was only like 8 "pages". And as I said very thin.
I was still boggling a bit at those impossible pictures as I travelled towards my destination. And found in amongst the other pocket/purse cruft that had been around the brochure and other stuff I'd pulled out when digging for that paper I'd had to show when I was getting driections, there was this sort of T shaped bit of plastic/cardboard.The top of the T was something over an inch wide. Say 3 cm. And about half that tall. The "shaft" was maybe a quarter as wide but much longer that the top was wide. The shaft was a bit wrinkled in spots and had nothing on it but an outline of an arrow.
The top of the T had another moving image. With *sound. And at one point, as I laid it face down against something I could see a it of a glow, so the image was emitting light not just reflecting it.
That was a *real* shocker. As I woke up, I'd shown it to some other folks and we were discussing what sort of future it must have come from. One where *that* was "throwaway" tech.
Why do I say throwaway? Remember my description. The bent/floded shaft of the T and the arrow outline. As I was showing it to them, I realized exactly what it was. It was one of those paper/plastic thingies you pull out of cheap items that use watch type batteries to activate them (ie to quit keeping an electrical contact from being made.
And yet it had a several seconds of video with audio....
Definitely the setup for "where did these artifacts come from? And how?"
I stuck the fiction, research and writing tags on this because it *begs* to be used in a story. Though I'm not at all sure I could do it justice.
In any case I thought it was *such* a different thing that I should share it. The sense of astonishment in the dream was really something else. But then, how would *you* feel if you encountered something like that in your real life?
Well, it was a eries of dreams with the usual illogical transitions.
I won't go into the earlier sequences, just the last one.
In it I had a paycheck belong to a friend or friend of a friend. The backstory (I think from a dream I've had in the past, yes I have dreams that sometimes repeat over long periods or "resume" after long periods) was that it'd gotten picked up for hoime by someone (possibly, me, but that didn't jibe with some of what was going on in this dream, and didn't jibe in a wauy that's out of pattern for my dreams "illogic").
Anyway the cjek which I was tring to take back to his job, so he could get it (apparently easier in the dream than actually getting it directly to him) was having typical combo of real-world/dream world problems. Apparently his job was at location A, and something medical. But to get the check to the "right" place, I had to take it to building B several miles away. Someone helpfully printed out some bit of paper I'd need to get past stufflike security.
At the point the dream got extraordinary, I'd shown the paper to someone at a building across from location A and they were looking something up or on the phone. I was waiting and having a bunch of papers and stuff in my hands I started going thru them.
The check had been stuck inside some sort of folded brochure. Totally unrelated, just something to protect it a bit and it may hace had directions to location A on it.
Now, I have to note one oddity about my dreams. I can't read in them. Or rather, I can see printed material, but if I try to look at it in detail it's a bunch of meaningless letter-like shapes.This has relevance here.
I do dream in color, though often it's not something I notice much. In this case it was very important.
Inside the folded brochure (it was about the size of a tri-folded letter) I found a small booklet. Paper folded to be 2-3" square. It came across as "cheap". Very thin paper that gave the impression of cheaps, possibly a bit because it was so thin/flimsy. But it was also *very* white paper.
Here's where it starts getting extraordinary. The booklet was "obviously" something that'd accidentally got into the brochure. It was totally unrelated and felt amateurish. I had the impression (recall that I can't actually read it in detail) that it was something about kids/family. On the second page there was a small color picture. Not glossy magazine quality, but at least decent inkjet or laser printing.
It *moved*. Like a couple of seconds of video clip!!
In my dream I was startled. I didn't believe my eyes at first. This was *not* a dream set in the future or an SF sort of place/time. There was another one on another page. The booklet was only like 8 "pages". And as I said very thin.
I was still boggling a bit at those impossible pictures as I travelled towards my destination. And found in amongst the other pocket/purse cruft that had been around the brochure and other stuff I'd pulled out when digging for that paper I'd had to show when I was getting driections, there was this sort of T shaped bit of plastic/cardboard.The top of the T was something over an inch wide. Say 3 cm. And about half that tall. The "shaft" was maybe a quarter as wide but much longer that the top was wide. The shaft was a bit wrinkled in spots and had nothing on it but an outline of an arrow.
The top of the T had another moving image. With *sound. And at one point, as I laid it face down against something I could see a it of a glow, so the image was emitting light not just reflecting it.
That was a *real* shocker. As I woke up, I'd shown it to some other folks and we were discussing what sort of future it must have come from. One where *that* was "throwaway" tech.
Why do I say throwaway? Remember my description. The bent/floded shaft of the T and the arrow outline. As I was showing it to them, I realized exactly what it was. It was one of those paper/plastic thingies you pull out of cheap items that use watch type batteries to activate them (ie to quit keeping an electrical contact from being made.
And yet it had a several seconds of video with audio....
Definitely the setup for "where did these artifacts come from? And how?"
I stuck the fiction, research and writing tags on this because it *begs* to be used in a story. Though I'm not at all sure I could do it justice.
In any case I thought it was *such* a different thing that I should share it. The sense of astonishment in the dream was really something else. But then, how would *you* feel if you encountered something like that in your real life?
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Date: 2012-01-02 11:20 pm (UTC)At any rate, whether it's mentioned in ITYNLs or not, that is a tech in my Nokwahl/Traipah series. In that future, digital paper is everywhere, and all kinds of people use it, because in that time it's no more difficult to make than real paper (though admittedly you can make real paper without a matter synthesizer).
PS
Date: 2012-01-02 11:23 pm (UTC)Re: PS
Date: 2012-01-03 12:27 am (UTC)The astonishment factor is finding such in some random "how did this wind up in with these other papers?" purse cruft *now*.
Not in the future, not on an alien planet. But as something that'd accidentally slipped in with something someone had scribbled directions on the back of.
Re: PS
Date: 2012-01-03 12:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-03 06:00 pm (UTC)I vaguely remember hearing that this is actually how it works for most people.