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I was gutted when I heard the villain from "The Losers" quote Mother Goose. It was their way of saying, "Actually, this film isn't what we expected either. It really is a load of rubbish".
That aside, I've been watching Heroes lately. It's not too shabby!
On a much more interesting and somewhat important note, I had a most enlightening dream three nights ago.
I was in Preston, but as I have - in real life - had trouble getting to work (to the point where I walked for five and a half hours to get there a couple weeks ago 'cause I had no money), I decided to pick the Preston and Chorley area up, twist it around and place it so my flat was within walking distance of it. Trouble was, there was a village on the border which I had accidentally completely rearranged and removed part of, which naturally agitated the occupants. They began mass producing shovels in order to kill me with, apparently because that was the best they could do. They chased me around endlessly, threatening me and swinging for my head.
I was barely able to get away. But suddenly, I realized the dream was becoming lucid. I turned, and when one of the villagers attacked me I caught his shovel and pulled it out of his hands. The look on their faces! It really was priceless. I mean, this sounds really weird, but it was at that moment when I discovered that the people in the dream knew full well that they were nothing more than figments of my imagination. They recognized their mortality, and it scared the hell out of them. Of course, that didn't stop me. I shouted something like, "Hear that kids? I've gone lucid!" I could've sworn one of them responded with - "Oh... shit" - before they all scrambled away desperately from the imminent massacre. I slammed as many of them down as I could with that shovel before waking, a scene which would've given the entirety of Zack Snyder's 300 a run for its money.
It made me think though, exactly how powerful dreams are, and whether they do indeed have sentience. It's not a completely illogical theory; as we have sentience, I would have thought it to be quite feasible for our minds to split into separate personalities, but only within the subconscious. I realize I'm essentially talking about early stages of multiple personality disorder, but what if it isn't just a disorder? The mind controlling more than one entity is a concept which would, given scientific application, attract military minds in an instant. Yet within the subconscious it's deemed as dangerous and unstable. Doesn't that strike anyone as odd? Or am I applying flawed logic to insanity? Perhaps I should just get some sleep...
That aside, I've been watching Heroes lately. It's not too shabby!
On a much more interesting and somewhat important note, I had a most enlightening dream three nights ago.
I was in Preston, but as I have - in real life - had trouble getting to work (to the point where I walked for five and a half hours to get there a couple weeks ago 'cause I had no money), I decided to pick the Preston and Chorley area up, twist it around and place it so my flat was within walking distance of it. Trouble was, there was a village on the border which I had accidentally completely rearranged and removed part of, which naturally agitated the occupants. They began mass producing shovels in order to kill me with, apparently because that was the best they could do. They chased me around endlessly, threatening me and swinging for my head.
I was barely able to get away. But suddenly, I realized the dream was becoming lucid. I turned, and when one of the villagers attacked me I caught his shovel and pulled it out of his hands. The look on their faces! It really was priceless. I mean, this sounds really weird, but it was at that moment when I discovered that the people in the dream knew full well that they were nothing more than figments of my imagination. They recognized their mortality, and it scared the hell out of them. Of course, that didn't stop me. I shouted something like, "Hear that kids? I've gone lucid!" I could've sworn one of them responded with - "Oh... shit" - before they all scrambled away desperately from the imminent massacre. I slammed as many of them down as I could with that shovel before waking, a scene which would've given the entirety of Zack Snyder's 300 a run for its money.
It made me think though, exactly how powerful dreams are, and whether they do indeed have sentience. It's not a completely illogical theory; as we have sentience, I would have thought it to be quite feasible for our minds to split into separate personalities, but only within the subconscious. I realize I'm essentially talking about early stages of multiple personality disorder, but what if it isn't just a disorder? The mind controlling more than one entity is a concept which would, given scientific application, attract military minds in an instant. Yet within the subconscious it's deemed as dangerous and unstable. Doesn't that strike anyone as odd? Or am I applying flawed logic to insanity? Perhaps I should just get some sleep...