In my dreams

Hello again. Been a while.

So, I don't know if it's because I've just finished directing A Midsummer Night's Dream, but over the past few nights, my dreams have been incredibly interesting and vivid. I almost wrote down the one I had the night before last, and I wish I had, because it was cool, but now I can't remember it at all.

But I do remember some of the one I had last night, and it was both beautiful and profound.

The protagonist was a rather mousy, twenty-ish girl with short hair - never seen her before - who was my alter-ego in the dream, I guess - and a genius. She was also something of a paranoic, and had this incredibly complicated system whereby she would unlock various things of hers with a kind of a machine into which she would insert a certain number of one dollar bills - like a handheld atm in reverse. What she was actually doing I don't remember.

The significant event in the dream was that the sky - a beautiful, foggy, cloudy grey, was slowly descending on the earth. It got lower and lower during the course of the dream, until all the people were lying facedown on the ground, waiting for the sky to crush them flat. This was the conviction of all the people in this world: that space was being flattened, so that when the sky touched the earth there would be no more room for anybody, and we would all be squashed into oblivion.

But my mousy avatar didn't believe this - she did some strange thing with her dollar bills, and somehow, as the sky finally touched the earth she stood up into this strange new world - which was a foggy nothingness. All the other people were not annihilated either, but were transformed into strange arachnid creatures that scuttled away into the mist.

The strangest thing about this new place was that, in spite of the fact that it was formless, featureless, and completely grey and obscured, it was full of the hope of new possibility and life. It was so wonderful not to have been destroyed by the flattening of the universe, that this non-place was beautiful, magical, and full of promise. Gee, I wonder what that means?