Mike Raiford wrote:

> I've had several dreams where I'm attempting to land a 747 on a highway. 
>   Usually I'm successful, then wind up taxiing the plane all around 
> town, being careful not to snag any telephone poles.

WTF-O-Meter: 5.5

> NOTE: I have no clue how to fly a jet like that. If I'm ever at the 
> controls of such a beast .... :/

Heh. I like the one a while back where I had a dream that I was playing 
a large, powerful pipe organ, and I accidentally killed somebody. o_O

That was when I realised I was maybe spending a *biiit* too much time 
obsessing about pipe organs...

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>> It's more that, loosely speaking, encryption is a way of protecting 
>> things from harm, and auditors are people who want to harm me. Thus, 
>> following that pretty vague logic, this suggestion kind-of makes sense.
> 
> Wait, what? Auditors? Harm you? Paranoid much?

Well, it *is* their job to prove that I'm doing my job wrong. Not 
physical harm, obviously, but phychologically you still perceive trying 
to get you fired as pretty hostile behaviour, yes.

> Better than the recurring dream of showing to your high school naked.

OK, has anybody here *ever* had that??

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Oh, yeah... recurring theme as well. Generally either living in a huge 
> house with lots of (very cool) underground secret passages, or shopping 
> for houses and finding some gigantic monstrously big house that's right 
> in my price range.... 

Any good packages (better than Blender, say) for modeling such a thing and 
building a 3D walkthru?  I tried it with a custom front-end to POV, but the 
need to do bounding made it really tedious. Maybe I'll redo it without using 
real lighting and it'll render at more than pixels-per-hour without 
excessive work.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

> I once sat a 45 minute test, finished in about 10 minutes. Went back and did
> it all again to check my work. Another 10 minutes. Turned the paper over and
> wrote (in a long spiral) the details of a dream I'd had, starting with "Did
> you know if you go to sleep in your dreams you ...."
>


..... wake up?  :))
I remember that being my favorite technique as a child when being persecuted in
a dream and it worked well in most cases, just had to close my eyes in the
dream and very soon woke up.
Although sometimes, especially some years later, there were these fake "wake up"
dreams when I thought I had just woken up, being back in my room. Usually I
noticed some little weird detail in the room, and concluded (rightly) that I
was still dreaming. The devil is in the details, as one says ... ;))
Sometimes this process was repeated and that was a really annoying situation,
hanging somewhere between a dream and the real world like in an badly
implemented while-loop ... fortunately there was no memory leak :))

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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, yeah... recurring theme as well. Generally either living in a huge
> house with lots of (very cool) underground secret passages, or shopping
> for houses and finding some gigantic monstrously big house that's right
> in my price range.... One was particularly bizarre, it had rooms at
> several different levels with stairs going up/down to each, and a
> doorway that went out to a series of catwalks on the roof. The catwalks
> connected to a room that was only accessible from the catwalks.
>
> One of these days I need to put a pen and notepad next to my bed and
> document some of my dreams... many are wonderfully strange.
>

I can recommend that. It can be quite amusing reading it again after a year or
so when you have completely forgotten about it. But then when reading it again
it's a bit like being back there because somehow the "look and feel" of the
situation seems to be more attached to the memory than usually, when remembering
real world situations, at least that was sometimes my impression.


> There was a recurring theme of piloting a spaceship for a while, with
> me, too.

Enviable :). I only can remember that I had to drive a car with broken brakes on
some occasions :(

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I also have no clue what "firefly" is all about - so the last half dozen
> strips made no sense at all.

Gee - you haven't seen the "firefly" series?

You missed something. Make sure to get at least one episode at your local
rent-a-video one of these days.

(Haven't seen the movie though; but I bet it's worth it, too.)

A very unique atmosphere. I think there's nothing even remotely comparable. I
might say, "a mix of wild-west movies, sci-fi and a bit of mystery series", but
even that doesn't really hit the mark. You just gotta see it to know it.

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clipka wrote:
> A very unique atmosphere. I think there's nothing even remotely comparable.

I think Cowboy Bebop at least comes close.  Buy yes, Firefly was a great 
show.

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Talking about dreams, does anyone have dreams with plots/locations 
spanning multiple sleeping cycles which you can't remember while awake? 
  I'll occasionally have a dream, and realize that it's a continuation 
of a previous dream(s) that I had forgotten about.  The few people Ive 
mentioned it to haven't experienced it, but I can't imagine it's all the 
uncommon.

Also fun: recursive dreams (but these are pretty rare for me).

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Kyle <no### [at] spamok> wrote:
> When I get up in the morning for work, it's dark outside.  One day, I
> woke up to see a bit of daylight, realized I was late, got a shower, got
> dressed, and then walked out the door to darkness.  WTF?!?  I had fallen
> asleep in the afternoon and had woken up just before dark, thinking it
> was morning.  GRRR!!!

Yeah, that *almost* occurred to me rather frequently. There was a time when I
used to have some busy Sunday mornings, and fall asleep like dead on the couch
in the afternoon; then, waking up at about 8 o'clock, I'd be like "shit, I'm
late!" - only to realize a bit later that it was still Sunday PM, not Monday
AM... always scared me wide awake though, so I'd be sober enough to realize my
error within a few moments :P

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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> That, and being in big old rambling houses with secret passages and cool
>> stuff like that. Not scary, tho. :-)
> 
> Back in the days of playing Doom 2 (the last 3D shoot'em up game I
> played seriously), I'd have lots of dreams where I was the main guy in
> the game, running around and shooting monsters. Lots and lots of fun.
> Always would end with a monster that didn't seem to want to die. Even
> then, it was still more fun than scary.

Happened to me multiple times that, after playing Riven for a few days I
dreamed of being there. Well, not really there, but similar worlds.

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