dreams_of_u24 u24 I've remembered my dreams every morning since I spoke on last_nights_dream. this one was a while ago. It gets pretty good, I hope you enjoy it. there are terrorist attacks in london; we're unsure if is our own government doing it or not. there's a brief blackout in the tube; confusion. Trying to get on the train, I tried to jump the ticket barrier, I succeeded, but another guy had also jumped it and got caught so i went back and was going to pay, but because of the blackout 'we' (?) wanted to get the next train so I borrowed £2.50 from (?) to get the ticket. I got 2 tickets of different colours (pink and yellow?). one of which later folded. went through the barrier but somehow everyone else was on the train already. I had to run and jump across the tracks to get on the train (the doors closed soon afterwards). I landed on a seat and squashed Linds who complained about her shoulder. The train departed and people started talking about what it was that made us human. I insisted that we saw people as human from the start, but other people maintained that we saw people as automata until we conversed with them, then we realised they are human. The conversation continued until the train was well out of london; you could see hills through the windows. Something happened to the train; it endeded up crashing down a ravine into a river. After it 'landed', I said "good" because I had been afraid that the windows would smash with the pressure. I kicked the door open and a guy offered to help me to the shore, I declined and started to pull the train (!) to the shore, others helped. eventually everyone had got off the train. We looked around us and seemed to be in some sort of suburb. In the distance we saw ?; a legendary giant with a spear. We ensure everyone is OK and a group of use decide to try to stop ?. We notice that he is being followed by ??, another giant who we had thought was our ally, and another lizardgiant, allegiance unknown. We realise that ?? has defected. The legend states that ? will appear to destroy the world. We follow him and end up in a strange world populated by kind of nibbler creatures (from futurama) with hand held catapults. They are trying to stop ? as well. We learn that he's trying to "plug the world" (at mt everest, which is a volcano) to complete his illusion. Illusion? I cry out "show me the truth!" and we see a faint moon and stars appear, though it is midday. Everyone starts shouting the same and we see, briefly, the world as it should be seen; the stars are in perfect fractal-esque order and everything is really bright. the image fades and we are left with the midday sun, knowing that it is an illusion. We realise that ? is trying to stop humanity from realising the truth about the universe; if we could see things without his illusion then there would be no philosophy because we would have all the answers. We are now in a rush against time to stop him plugging the world. We have about a minute. We don't know how to do it. So we rush back to the train crash site, where we remember that there were several artefacts salvaged from the train, including a purple sling and shots. We grab it and rush to Mt Everest, plugging the world with the purple shots instead of ?'s big rock (which he was going to plug the world with). We realise then that this plug is only one of about five.... and the quest to save the world continues? 070406 ... u24 I wish I could remember the lizard/giant's names. 070406 ... . Dearest U24, I am sensing the lizard's name was "Billy". Your Friend, ndruptolodgijsadrg 070406 ... u24 hmm. no, it was not an earth name. 070406 ... u24 I was in a classroom, learning about Turing. I didn't like the teacher. He kept telling us to write certain things down, but that's not the way I learn. He told us that Turing has fascinated by paintings, and, because of his background in animation, wanted to learn how things were put together. I asked him what he thought he could learn from paintings, and whether he was a painter himself, and I was told that he wanted to uncover the transcendental truth behind existence. A fellow student complained that Turing never wrote anything down, I replied that he did, but she just shook her head and said that no, he never wrote anything apart from the article in Mind, which he wrote when he was suicidal. I replied that we have details of conversations from his friend's diaries, and I can't remember her re-action. I said that a lot of philosophers' writings are hard to find; look at Wittgenstein, she said that at least we had something, though it was cryptic, at least there's foundation. All the while, an organ player was playing in the background. The teacher started to sing the lecture to us in time with the music. I was not impressed. Later, I started teaching a beginning computing class. I told them that it was a boring class but we'd try to make it fun. I told the students all about my suit.... No-one turned up to my lesson, I ran across to a field where my sports buddies were playing. We were average, but we thought we were great. A new guy came along and joined us, and tackled the opposing team. He was going to get beaten up after school for that. After school, I went to the disco, and went in through the back door. Everyone was drinking pepsi from green bottles. Not sure if it was actually beer, or if it just looked like beer. I went to the other side of the disco and sat on a video game where you crash cars, police chased after my car, but no matter how many times they crashed into it, it wouldn't explode. ---- I saw a picture of R online, he looked furious and younger. The webpage was about some heritage site. R said that we bore no relation to the Great R-R of the past, and I wasn't sure if the picture were of R, or the Great R-R. On a small island in what appeared to be Scotland, R and ? (some old bloke) were walking with me through the undergrowth, telling me about the Great R-R, how he called the stars the "night planets" and how he talked about some sword or other that could do something-or-other. Just looking at the sword would kill you, or something. We saw another bloke who R nodded to, I said how nice everything was here, how quiet and peaceful. We turned a corner and I saw Lampeter just in the valley, I said that I never realised how close it was, that it seemed so different from Lampeter here. I went back to R's house, where.... maybe I had a cup of tea? Can't remember. ---- Somebody trying to hack into my website, whereupon I show him the logs. I talk about FTP logs and tell him that when I get some time, I'll write a program that monitors the logs for bruteforce atttempts and changes the password if they happen. --- My brother Karl locked my mum out, except that he didn't really but she thought she was, and we laughed at her. I think that's all.... 070408 ... u24 www.xkcd.com/c203.html so true. 070408 ... u24 Orks were invading. they had giants, and big swords. we (other orks) weren't prepared. They'd been preparing for years. a general shouted at us to shop a tree down to use as a battering ram.. a giant took a swipe at our hastily constructed tower, and it fell. I'm not sure what happened next. We (some orks) were in our bedrooms, one of us had a OOBE, and turned into some chickens... We (not sure if we're still orks) looked out over a playground, and saw that it was break time, I ran into several rooms and I could see a cleaner in a building opposite. people were dancing in the playground. a woman in a red dress. break was over, it only lasted ten mintues. Suddenly everyone was rushing back inside, and I could see money rushing upwards in dollars (as in, figures counting up were all over the place). I was in a largish hall, and there were things everywhere, like a bric-a-brac/car boot sale. One of the things was a mah-jong set. Cadfael looked at the set and realised that it was baby-tiles, and there was baby in the box. He took it to a side-corridor and gave it to someone associated with the monastery (I think he was a woodsman or something. He lived in a hut in the grounds) to look after. The huntsman took it. Then one of the junior monks admitted (years afterwards) that he had had a baby (mother unknown). This might have been related to the OOBE. Cadfael knew all along, and sent for the huntsman to fetch the Mah-Jong set/baby (which was, assumedly, still in the hiding place in his hut) Cadfael and the huntsman and the monk went outside to a balcony. There were stairs all the way down to the ground, but the huntsman's dumb servant was in a little room attached to the stairs, and he wouldn't call off the huntsman's dog. The servant thought that the baby would replace him and so wouldn't obey the hunter any more. The hunter knew how important it was to get the baby, so he ran down the stairs, got attacked by his dog, called it John, even though that wasn't the dog's name, and shot it. It was very sad because the hunter loved that dog. that's about it, I think. There was something about a porn actress who didn't like her job anymore.. 070409 ... u24 no dreams today. because no sleep today. been awake from 5pm to 8am going to try to keep awake until 10pm tonight. might break this cycle of insane waking hours. 070409 ... u24 There was something about me eating a meal on a bench, while kids cycled around, giving odds secretly to each other. Someone was secretly filming my lunch and editing the imagery to make it look as if dinosaurs were living in giant lettuce plants. Other kids took turns in a phone box broadcasting the edited imagery to another group of people further off, who cheered after every broadcast. I was worried that the cycling kids were going throw something into the lunchbox and ruin the broadcast, even though I had nothing to do with it. I'm not sure how that fits into what follows. I took some heroin, injected it into my upper arm. someone else was there. there was something about whether it was going to be a good trip or not, I kind of faded away as the drug enveloped me. Someone knew something about the injection, me taking it had confirmed it. I'd never taken it before. (and never have IRL) I was listneing to Top Buzz (a drum n bass artist) and I was looking at the waveform of the music on winamp. Man it was fucking trippy. I don't know if I can even describe it. The song played on and the lines of the waves morphed and danced into a forest, creatures looking out and strange plants growing, except that once drawn, they remained totally static. The scenes were so complex it was untrue, under the ocean. As the song played it snaked left and right, and you could see the older waves sheer off into the distance. I wish I could draw it for you. Then the waves stopped, but the song carried on. I remember thinking "how did he get it to encode all that information in one track?". The 'camera' (minds eye, whatever) still floated onwards, through towering hedges, and up into the sky. I could see a fairytale land beneath me, but I was always looking backwards, the tale unfolded. There was a huge castle, and..... ??? Somehow I learned that it belonged to alice in wonderland (the words "a (something something) girl called alice" were spoken, almost like a narration). I'm not sure what happened next, but I was in a tower, climbing up stairs. On each level there were two apples. One represented me, and the other represented Orbital (the artist of song, even though it started as Top Buzz). Both apples had a neat chunk carved out, and I could read what the apple said. Ad I progressed up the tower, I kept asking about his music. Orbital's apple had a light green skin, but dark green flesh. But then I came upon an apple of mine that I couldn't read properly. I looked really carefully at the cut, but I just couldn't read. I thought "perhaps I can only read them while I'm eating them". I started to bite into it to ask a new question, but then I noticed that orbital was telling me that my questions were from a long time ago, and he wasn't the same anymore. There was a tone of regret in his voice/words, and I realised that I'd put him in danger by going there. Was I from the future? I don't know. But somehow I knew that people were after him. He was resigned to his fate, and I had brought them there, unwittingly. But I just knew I could save him. We were in the top room of the tower, and we could hear (or just knew) that the people were coming up the stairs. He told me to go down, they wouldn't kill me. I fretted for a while, but decided I could save him. I was going to pour a capfull of some liquid or other, but realised that it would evaporate before he got to drink it (there was some sort of temporal anomally; while I was there at the same time as the people, and Orbital was there at the same time as the people, I wasn't there at the same time as Orbital)... I told orbital (yes I know, he wasn't there) that he could drink some ?? from the cap of the bottle and float down the stairs, disembodied. He did it and disappeared, telling I just had to open my third eye (he didn't phrase it like that, but that's how I understood it). I worried because I know how long it takes me to do that kind of meditation, and how out of practice I am. somehow I managed to pull it off, and I floated through yellow stone stairs, past the people and away. but then! There's some sort of temporal fuckup happening, because though I saved both of us, next thing I know, there we both are in realtime, the people bursting through the door of the top tower, trying to kill both of us (now they'd seen me with orbital, they couldn't let me live) I don't exactly know what happened next, but there were guns involved, and we ended up shooting one of the people. (not fatally). Anyway, somehow we got the upper hand and then started wondering why "they" hadn't sent professional hitmen. One of the people was a fireman, I think the other was a secretary. They explained that "they" didn't want it to look like a professional job.. Orbital came out of back room with a shotgun, and explained that he was in control now. The people didn't seem too bothered, they accepted that they'd screwed up and that was that. But for some reason, Orbital ended up giving the shotgun to the fireman to admire. The fireman, naturally said "right, hands up", but the secretary told him that was out of order, and to put the gun down. The fireman then just kind of gave up and admired the custom barrels on the shotgun. I woke up really, really stiff. 070411 ... u24 Rediscovering myself through my long forgotten dreams. I recognise some aspects of my old life. 140501 what's it to you? who go blather from