Monday, June 8, 2009

Andy Braner, First Person Shooter, Laurence Fishburne?

This dream takes place in three different locations.

I'm watching Spiderman 2 with Drew Crowson and someone else. Their face is completely unidentifiable. For whatever reason we decide the movie is miserable and we want our money back. So we walk out of the movie in an attempt to find the manager.

Upon leaving the theater and entering the main lobby, I realize I've left my flip flops in the theater and am now worried about their well-being. But Francine the usher, now aware of my ardent desire to get my money back, simply pushes me along towards the main offices of this complex.

The place is beautifully ornate. Multiple levels of theaters up as far as I can see, making this the nicest theater I've ever been in. Everything is made up of finished wood and glass, with shining metal outlining all the wood. Francine leads Drew and I down several flights of stairs, smiling the entire way. A teenage girl working at the theater sees me and runs into me on purpose, then curls up into the fetal position on the floor as she falls. What the heck?

We arrive at an elevator. I don't know why we just went down dozens of flights of stairs to end up at an elevator, but it happened. As the elevator door opens, tons of beautiful people pour out. Girls in shimmering dresses walk out, draped over the arms of handsome men in tuxedos. I enter the elevator, but Drew doesn't follow me. The elevator is full of beautiful people, one of them being Luke Edgerton. He sure is beautiful.

Turns out the elevator isn't an elevator at all. It's actually a cable car, shaped a lot like a Pepsi can, but without the artwork. The cylinder is yellow, and suddenly my view is that of a bird flying around the cylinder as it is hauled up an enormous hill. Next to the hill is a large highway. Cars are shooting up and down the highway as we head towards our destination.

You might be wondering what the destination of this dreamy cable car is going to be. Welp, from my bird's eye view, I can see it appears to be some kind of industrial park. As the cylinder nears the top, the voice of Andy Braner comes over a radio inside.

Andy: "I've done this a million times on the simulator, and it usually ends up alright".

That's all he says.

I have just come to realize that what Andy meant was he had never docked one of these cars, and we might die. Hmmmm.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

Nobody panics inside the car for some reason. They just maintain happy faces as, from my bird's eye view once again, I see the car swinging out of control around the last support pole. Suddenly I'm back inside the cylinder, and the door is wide open. I'm spilled out on top of at least a dozen beautiful people, all moaning and groaning from our crash landing. I look around and feel like I'm in a warzone. The industrial park is sprawled out around me like some weird level from Metal Gear Solid or something. I start running up around the cylinder and up a hill, which leads me to a sidewalk and parking lot. To my right are a bunch of street lights, and to my left is a strip mall of sorts. Behind me, a few of the people from the cylinder are running with me and laughing, mostly girls.

I looked through the window of one of the shops and noticed it was a bar. A man was playing a piano, and in front of him was a girl on rollerskates, shooting around, serving people drinks and such. The whole place was illuminted by a red light, and nearly everyone in the place was laughing. I continued running forward.

The further I went along the outdoor mall, I began to notice it was becoming more of an indoor mall. The roof was slowly closing over me as I proceeded down this sidewalk, which turned from concrete to tile almost seamlessly.

I approached the front of a store (which again was on my left), where mechanical chimpanzees were taking mechanical dumps and throwing them at each other, and anyone who passed by. I easily ran between two of them and continued into a JC Penny-esque store. I heard screams from behind me, so naturally I turned around. I think the robot monkies were murdering the girls that were chasing me. I turned and ran some more.

Once I entered JC Penny, or whatever weird retail store it was, I began to relax. I started walking through the many snaking walkways that permeated the sales floor. It was quite well lit, and I saw several people engaged in conversations about jeans and socks and home appliances. As I moved further and further along, the store became more of Dick's Sporting Goods type store. I encountered a rack of nice looking Brooks running shoes. They were AWESOME. Better than brand new looking, as though they'd been assembled right there in the store. Weird.

The lights in the place begin to dim the futher I go. Soon I am surrounded by electronics. Televisions, computers, and video games systems are all well let while the walkway I use is progressively getting more and more dim.

I look to my right and see the head of Laurence Fishburne floating above a television. On that TV is the Matrix code, just pouring down the front of the screen at a high rate of speed. Fishburne's head is spinning around in circles, floating just above the TV. I decide this is really weird and push on.

Now things become extremely bizarre. All the lights in the hallway I'm in are out, save two blue tracklights in the ceiling. Everything is illuminated in a dark blue. There are pipes all along the walls, and there are electronics stacked 3 feet high all over the floor. So of course, what would I do other than fly through the hallway?

I'm flying. Flying over vast piles of computers, Xboxes, Playstations and flat screen TVs. I keep hearing clicks and beeps, as though some of these pieces of equipment are on.

To my right I hear a loud clank, the sound of metal hitting metal. I hover and look right into a dark room, barely lit. I see the shadows of several large pieces of machinery, and hear another large clank. I look to my left and see what looks to be a large nuclear reactor down the hall, glowing green with tubes coming out of it. The clank comes again from the dark room.

I decide to investigate the clank. So I float into the room slowly, and the clank happens again. I'm getting closer and closer to the source of the sound, but the room is also getting progressively darker. I hear the sound of metal hitting metal again, and this time I think I see the outline of a man standing behind one of the machines, rigid against the wall. I hear the clank again, and turn to face the entry from whence I had orginially been. The hallway was still a deep blue, with a tinge of green from the reactor. I hear the clank again, turn to see the figure of the man, but he has disappeared.

And the whole room went completely black.

Awake.

2 comments:

AV said...

wow.

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