the unbearable oddness of dreaming

Really odd dream last night (well, this morning... aren't they always "this morning"? The longest period of REM sleep is the last one before waking, after all) which involved a kind of tunnel-hacking underneath the campus of Stanford University. It seemed that, like New New York in Futurama, there were entire levels of ruins buried under the site - ten levels, to be precise, though in the dream I myself only went down to the ninth. (Insert Dante reference here, I suppose.) ( Read more... )

I see some Underworld themes in this dream (the entrance through a hole into the ground, the sourceless light, the confrontation with a male guardian or antagonist), but I think they're just being laid into an otherwise ordinary psychological/"junk drawer" kind of dream because they are things that I have been focusing attention on a lot lately.

Edit: Oh, you know what, now that I think about it, I think the setting may also have been influenced by the description of Goblin Town in Freeholds and Hidden Glens (the Changeling supplement). I say it was "ruins", and it was, but it wasn't abandoned; there were a number of people roaming around and all in all it gave the impression of being used, if not inhabited.

the unbearable oddness of dreaming

Really odd dream last night (well, this morning... aren't they always "this morning"? The longest period of REM sleep is the last one before waking, after all) which involved a kind of tunnel-hacking underneath the campus of Stanford University. It seemed that, like New New York in Futurama, there were entire levels of ruins buried under the site - ten levels, to be precise, though in the dream I myself only went down to the ninth. (Insert Dante reference here, I suppose.) ( Read more... )

I see some Underworld themes in this dream (the entrance through a hole into the ground, the sourceless light, the confrontation with a male guardian or antagonist), but I think they're just being laid into an otherwise ordinary psychological/"junk drawer" kind of dream because they are things that I have been focusing attention on a lot lately.

Edit: Oh, you know what, now that I think about it, I think the setting may also have been influenced by the description of Goblin Town in Freeholds and Hidden Glens (the Changeling supplement). I say it was "ruins", and it was, but it wasn't abandoned; there were a number of people roaming around and all in all it gave the impression of being used, if not inhabited.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

I go pick up my car tomorrow!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

I go pick up my car tomorrow!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

typo of the day

fool colouring n. An artificial dye added to fools so you can finally tell who they are just by looking at them.

typo of the day

fool colouring n. An artificial dye added to fools so you can finally tell who they are just by looking at them.

silliness

Dracnet

Jack Webb as a vampire cop with the LAPD. Henry Morgan as a shuffling "Igor" or Renfield type.

Bizarre.

(This came out of my dad not parsing oral mention of Draknet properly.)

silliness

Dracnet

Jack Webb as a vampire cop with the LAPD. Henry Morgan as a shuffling "Igor" or Renfield type.

Bizarre.

(This came out of my dad not parsing oral mention of Draknet properly.)

in today's "wtf?" department

This is taken in the bottom of the slightly-underground part of the parking garage at De Anza. Behind the fencing you can see some road signs and barriers that they use now and again (this is where they are stored). I have no idea why this toilet is here or how it got there. It appeared at least a week ago and has not moved; the plastic bit of road barrier leaning against it, however, has shown up in the meantime, and was not there originally. I figure only a maintenance person of some description would be able to remove a toilet from one of the campus bathrooms and deposit it here, but I have no clue why such a thing would be done.

in today's "wtf?" department

This is taken in the bottom of the slightly-underground part of the parking garage at De Anza. Behind the fencing you can see some road signs and barriers that they use now and again (this is where they are stored). I have no idea why this toilet is here or how it got there. It appeared at least a week ago and has not moved; the plastic bit of road barrier leaning against it, however, has shown up in the meantime, and was not there originally. I figure only a maintenance person of some description would be able to remove a toilet from one of the campus bathrooms and deposit it here, but I have no clue why such a thing would be done.