Dream Analysis

[tamakun]

So I had a bit of a dream, and I'd love to hear what y'all think of it.

I was in this Food Basics grocery store, and I remember that in the area on a higher level, I was wandering about while a very small group of six people were both having a party in a large gym-room and taking some kind of quiz in another. I needed to use the washroom but the one on that floor was in pretty bad shape, so I walked down to the main level.

There, I was in the Food Basics proper (and I remember that I tried traveling to the basement, but it was flooded), so I had wandered over to the cashiers, where a cashier offered me a pack of $1.45 coupons in a pack of 10 for $10. I politely declined and started to wander outside, where the streets were extremely skewed - I remember that I had to make a trek on an incline roughly 60 degrees to get out of the parking lot.

It was night, and there was a lot of people swarming around, one of which was fpelayo in a bright-red flimsy party hat but he wasn't paying attention to me (he walked right past me as if he was deliberately blanking me), but another friend, Michael (though I don't think it looked like Michael) told me that a strange person was looking for me, like needed to find me, and others around took this as a sign that I was being hunted down. I shrugged it off, claiming that it wasn't a problem, to which someone said it was "your epitaph". A dark car had driven out of the skewed parking lot and sped past me, to which I merely hopped out of its way and I never saw it again.

Shrugging, I turned around to look at the building I had left, noticing that it too was skewed and not using straight edges at all, and it reminded me of the crystal part of the Royal Ontario Museum. The CN Tower behind the building was unusually large, like it was drawn closer for effect with its red lights glowing as it does. As I looked at it, it started to fall.

My thought was "And there goes the CN Tower." in a very uninterested tone.

It snapped in half, just below the bulbous point, and the lights on one side of the structure went out. At this point, the crowd behind me started to panic (as did I), and in the typical Hollywood fashion, the lights all around us started to go out in batches, until there was no lights available to see anything, not even illumination from the stars in the sky (despite that the CN Tower doesn't provide electricity).

I opened my cellphone and tried to press "send" but the phone didn't do anything. I don't recall entering a number but I was convinced that the cellphone wasn't working because undoubtedly everyone else was in a more frantic state and had already overloaded the cellphone tower nearby (which, now that I'm thinking about it, could've been the CN Tower). I still couldn't see anything.

I woke up with a bit of a jolt from that. It's not every night you wake up from a dream where iconic structure of the city falls. O_o

So yeah, I saw the CN Tower fall! :S Thoughts and Analysis? I figure the skewed building and parking lot came from our watching Big Fish last night, but everything else is quite unusual, I can't place why all those events collaborated like that.

Comments

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

~/o The CN tower disappeared last night!
And though its disappearance caused quite a fright!
No one seems to know quite where it's gone,
and no one knows quite why,
A great big hole shows where it towered in the sky,
and though police are baffled, no clue has let been found.
Theories of the uncanny disappearance abound,
well, it's gone, gone gone.

The most logical theory so far seems to be,
that some diner in the revolving restaurant carelessly
dropped a fork through a crack in the floor,
which got stuck in the mechanism,
and could not be removed
and jammed the whole gear system,
and sent the whole damn building revolving round and round,
and so it screwed itself forever out of sight and underground!
Well it's gone gone gone. /o~

Lorne Elliott

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I have not heard this song; now I really want to! Curse you, obscure Canadian Artists! ;p

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

He's not obscure! He hosted "Madly Off In All Directions" on CBC radio for years. Every time he's in town, I'm at his comedy show. scruloose is pretty much his Fanboy equivalent.

I'll start you off with Morris The Moose and upload the CN Tower for you tonight.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Okay, I've definitely heard this voice before!

And what a brilliant song XD

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I'm just amazed to learn about the lights! It didn't have those the last time *I* was in Toronto! o.o Man that would be fun to program. XD

But yeah, just seems like a fairly normal dream about the world not being reliable, kinda... how much everything we recognize as safety and normalcy just being dependant on things continuing not to change, y'know?

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

The lights are a recent addition. It's pretty cool to see them in action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xuRVDiDWQQ) because they go through quite the spectrum of colours. In the dream, they were all red, all the time. :\

What was strange was that I was looking at everything with this "huh!" expression, thinking that it was a strange design decision to make the building crooked, or have such a skewed parking lot, but I never even questioned that it was extremely unusable. :P

[davidn]

It means you're eating too many baked goods before bed :) But really, that's quite a dream, and reminds me of many of the stories of my own, with the heap of irrelevant events leading up to the one cataclysmic one. I'm interested that even in the trivial events, you could remember such things as the value of the coupons.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I need to lay off the sweets - or in the case of that evening, the calzones XD

I remember the $1.45 coupons because a) that was a strange number, and b) I was trying to work out the math in my head as I left - how many $1.45 coupons go into $10? (This is similar to Petro-Canada's gas "discount" of 5c off every litre for 200 litres - only recently did I realize that's pretty much a $10 Giftcard.)

[fpelayo.livejournal.com]

Since we hardly see each other, how did I end up in your head? (and bright red's soooo not my color :P)

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

It was one of those ultra-cheap dollarstore thin-plastic hats too - the kind that are typically seen on St. Patrick's Day, so it definitely didn't suit anybody.

The only thing that I can think of is that I saw you last week at Anime North, when I was watching Fanboy Confessional (http://www.spacecast.com/article/Fanboy-Confessional), but that's pretty much the most recent time that I saw you. The fact that a friend who looked nothing like my friend was also talking to me really tells me my mind was going in all kinda of directions.