Posted by jonvon on April 30, 2002 at 12:14:30:
this morning around 3am i had this really crazy dream. its the afternoon now and i've forgotten a good deal of it. which is too bad cause it was really a great dream.
i was on a space ship.
i was dave [from 2001]. hal was there too.
but i was also this astronaut from a 1985 movie called Lifeforce where astronauts encounter a spaceship full of vampires floating in the tail of Haley's comet. the astronaut in the movie sort of falls in love with the female vampire but ends up killing her [and himself] because she is going to kill the entire planet. its actually a pretty good movie for its time from what i remember, not sure how well it would stand up today though. campy and overdone - perfect.
also i was simultaneously alex wilbourne. all at the same time, and none of those guys. basicaly i was this astronaut who was about to go through this really horrific time in outer space on a spaceship. but i was tough and smart and would get through it.
the dream sequence [in and of itself apart from the events] was very strange, i had the feeling that it was choreographed, that everything that happened had occurred in exactly the same sequence of events many times before, and it was supposed to happen exactly this way every time. like some sort of campy horror sci fi version of reincarnation.
the events were all "disaster on a spaceship in silly sci fi movies" kind of events. all kinds of crazy stuff happened. hal [the ship's computer, if you haven't seen 2001] was very concerned about it all. he was trying to create disaster on his own terms but was quickly overwhelmed by all the other disasters that took place.
in one particular moment, the ship was suddenly filled with normal people, wives and children mostly, and some random young men, just people standing around all over the ship. they were pretty out of place, but they were all standing there like it was completely normal. some of them were smoking, they were all in these poses like mannequins and staring around intently at nothing.
suddenly most of them were dead, and there was about 10 inches of water on the floor of the ship and they were all floating just underneath it staring straight up at the ceiling, or straight down toward the floor. there were quite a few stuffed dogs floating around in the water as well.
in some parts of the dream i was crawling around in jeffries tubes, basically access tunnels with ladders and whatnot.
at other times i was staring at a wall full of blinking lights and talking to hal, or watching hal as he worried over everything happening in the ship and frustrated that he wasn't the one causing all the mayhem. i'm pretty sure there were aliens [from the movies of the same name of course] around killing people and generally causing more mayhem.
all through it i was kinda sorta stressed but i knew that i was going to come through it. i was strong and clever enough and i was going to make it back to earth.