It seems now I have limited time to post things, yay! I still have to post about Melbourne because out of the three trips I’ve made, I haven’t posted a single one yet! Aaah! But that means going through pictures, editing/cropping, etc, which is such a pain.
So instead, I’ll post about other things that I don’t document nearly as frequently as I should – and that’s my dreams. Had a great one last night if I can remember all the details.
It started off with me being me, trying to read a book (since I haven’t read books in ages!), and I realised just how out of practise I was because reading took a lot of effort (which is true in real life). Instead, I decided it was probably worthwhile watching a movie version of my book.
I’m not sure if I actually ended up at a cinema though, but I was watching some action from a distance (sci-fi themed, generic flying vehicles shooting lasers at one another while zooming through a skyscraper filled city). But of course, my dreams never stay that generic for long. Then, I was me, in a different world, walking with people I’ve never met before. We were walking down the street, this time not surrounded by high rises, but instead more like an abandoned part of town – lots of concrete everywhere, like empty carparks. Whatever we were talking about, it was pretty normal so I don’t remember the conversation, until I said something that they didn’t like.
That’s when one of the males stopped and grabbed my arm – quite violently too. He was quite mad for some reason, though I have no idea what I said to offend him. I bet it was about humans, because he was actually an android. The girl I was with was an android too. He reminded me that I was a captive, and to watch my place because he could kill me at any moment. I was totally calm through the whole thing, so much so that he ended up commenting on that too – he said, “actually, I kind of like you because you don’t whimper on or show fear when I threaten you,” to which I replied, “well you’re obviously stronger and could kill me at any moment, so why should I worry about these things? It’s not like I could escape.” And he seemed to like that too, so became friendly with me again.
In fact, between the grabbing of the arm and his comment, there was also a moment where the girl went all crazy and started touching my hair… saying how nice it was and how she would like to wear it. And it was more than just her hands on my super long and super soft hair, there were at least two other pairs of hands from … who knows! That’s when I realised that the androids were all made from human parts, so I had to be careful. Or something. That actually freaked me out moreso than the manhandling I got from the male android.
Alright, after that little kerfuffle was sorted, we finally made it to our destination – some futuristic building that was in the same vicinity of the initial “movie scene” I was experiencing. We went down a shiny lift and some mini robots were making a fuss over us, as if something was wrong. It turns out we had been involved in some other sort of conflict while we were above ground (but I didn’t experience this at the correct chronological point in my dream, I only realised that here. Either that or it was during my hair grabbing scene), and there was a virus-spreading bunny-like robot on the loose, and we had to make sure we didn’t make contact with it. I was immune since I was fully human, but the androids all had to be scanned.
The male android (they didn’t have names, so this is about the only way I can describe them) was adamant that he was careful and avoided any interaction with the bunny, and the female android agreed – she was saying how he was very careful and didn’t even walk over the same places on the footpaths. But of course, as stories go – he scanned positive for having contracted this virus and had to be sent to quarantine.
Our “hero” group (yep it has now become a save the world kind of dream!) was now one person down, and we had entered into chaos. The flying vehicles were still shooting at each other and it was a bit of a warzone – and that meant casualties. The female android started treating the injured as soon as we had set foot into this next set of streets (I guess if I analyse the geography of this, we were at a much higher elevation when we were walking through the concrete-filled suburbs, and this was a lower area filled with futuristic towers, much more built up but the sky was still visible). We had no cover and were doing our best to look after everyone, we’d get walk ups with people asking for help.
That’s when I started seeing the female android very clearly. She had the face and voice of Amy Acker (LOL, think Illyria from Angel) but had green eyes and hair. She was obviously very proficient at triage and somehow had a cure-all on hand – it was either a) a very placid lizard with thick spikes that could be pulled off, b) a spiky plant with a very strong and fibrous stem or c) an plastic device that dispensed thick spikes filled with a healing liquid, but I can’t remember which it most closely resembled in my dream. All I knew is that is was very valuable and we had limited amounts and would have to wait for the spikes to grow back if we used them, but they could reduce symptoms of sickness and lessen the pain of wounds. In fact, when I looked at one of these spikes, it looked (and had exactly the texture of) like aloe vera leaves – thin and pointy ones. I guess in all three scenarios (yes even the lizard), aloe vera leaves were perfectly normal to sprout from them?
The more I looked at her and how she was helping the injured, the more I started wondering, how come I wasn’t getting hurt? How come I was still alive? How come she hasn’t killed me??? That’s when I realised I was probably somewhat special and had a part to play. And the biggest revelation: she was probably very special, a super android who was immune to the bunny virus and knew exactly what was going on, and that she was the key to saving the world.
So what started as just reading a book got really epic, but that’s where my dream ended! While I’ve had several other crazy dreams, I can’t be bothered posting any that are too far back. But this one will be a satisfying read for future me!
The end!