Thursday, October 30, 2008

Pawns, Androids, Elephants

I'll cut out the boring stuff, and bring you to the part where I was working in some kind of Costco store, except they had a billion employees, all wearing red polo shirts, and instead of the customers waiting in the check out lines, the employees had to wait in line. These were not normal length lines, I felt like we were in a rail yard, and the waiting was endless.

Somehow, next I was watching a documentary about androids. They were thin-framed ones with long spider appendages, and they worked extremely fast. They were all typing on computers (which seems weird now, androids are computers.) They seemed to be in sync, there would be a storm of typing, and then suddenly, they would all freeze, and their creator, a tense governess type, would fix something here and there, and they'd all be off again. She was really trying to sell the viewers on the idea, which seemed to be, 'look at how fast they're going!"

Then I was in a giant White House with a ton of reporters who had been stripped of any recording devices, waiting for the President to come in. I spent a lot of time thinking, "there's got to be a way to get a device in here, because what's going on in here is so wrong." But I knew their sensors would find it.

One of the reporters in that crowd then became the protagonist of my dream, a wrestler who never won any fights. He would try and try at fighting, and anything in general in life, but never have any measurable success. After a while, a wrestling organization gave him an award for his failures: a giant pawn. They all laughed, but he was happy and smiley anyway. Somehow this part was on youtube in my head.

Finally, the grand finish. Our hero had somehow become an elephant. He was swimming earnestly down beautifully picturesque rivers. Have you ever seen an elephant swim? It was really cute, peddling his legs. He was going through some rough waters, but he would keep his trunk up to breathe even if his body was under the water. The river emptied out into a beach area, where our elephant morphed into a dolphin and joined other dolphins riding the humongous waves in to shore. At this point I became the dolphin, and I had a ton of fun being lifted high in the water with tons of other dolphins. Some guy, though, was shutting a big door on the bay which made the waves calm down. I had to make him keep it open so we could have our fun.

I feel like I just wrote a children's story for kids with ADHD.

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