I just had one of the strangest dreams...

[tamakun]

I was walking home from an event downtown, and I was taking a different way home, which took me to a bridge where construction crews were turning cars away from entering. Being a pedestrian, I walked right by, noticing other pedestrians on the other side of the road were being stopped. I guess they didn't see me...

The building that I was walking by was very strange, all concrete, but I noticed that it was very quiet (with no echo, unlike so many concrete structures), save for the large gravel I was walking on. I was just looking at the structure with the glass and concrete, when suddenly an area underground opened up, forcing out a large amount of water, tinted heavily blue and almost gel-like in thickness, which ebbed and flowed before sinking into the gravel around me. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but I thought the behaviour of the water was pretty cool-looking.

I turned away and continued to walk, and noticed a number of metal panels were beginning to move on the outskirts of this field I was walking on. Before I had any time to react, I realized that the metal panels were releasing an incredible amount of this water into the field, which, when it came from all around, created a massive tidal wave of which I was near the center. Survival instinct kicked in and I took a deep breath just before the water hit me, and let the wave take me wherever it needed to.

I was underwater for only a few seconds, but I don't have the lungpower of Guybrush Threepwood, and I remember inhaling a massive amount of gelwater before my head broke the surface again...

Quick cut to an observation environment near the water experiment, and it was revealed in a discussion between a media journalist and one of the "scientists" that this experiment is to help people play Scrabble in their sleep. Both muse that it's a fun game, and at that point I was roused out of my slumber...

What a horrible concept for a movie based on a board-game...

Comments

[davidn]

large amount of water, tinted heavily blue and almost gel-like in thickness

...Yes.

I was almost going to say that it sounded like a Portal 2 dream (with the 'gel' and the experiment), but... I wasn't expecting an experiment to help people with sleep-Scrabble :)

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I hadn't done any Testing in the past few days, but I had been tinkering with the editor recently. I would love to script a sequence that floods the room with blue gel similar to my dream, but I've noticed there seems to be a limit to the amount of gel in the air at any given time during gameplay. :P

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I'd watch it before Battleship. ;)

(Also, I fear for Dream-Tama's survival instincts if you walked past guards turning people away, AND a giant hole opening up in the ground, without deciding to turn back..! X3)

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I actually was kinda curious about the hole that pumped out the water, just because it was unexpected and I didn't think that much water was possible to come out of the opening.

Dream-Tama apparently acts on curiosity. XD