Dreams
My dreams have become incredibly vivid and narrative as of late. It's enjoyable, but also sometimes weird. Last night's theme was time travel, and there were three main threads, as it were.
The first involved Buck Godot, Zap Gun for Hire (a character from the Phil Foglio comic of the same name) activating an unstoppable guard machine during the course of one of his jobs, and accidentally activating a time portal in his flight from it, so that when he flees, it chases him through several time zones. Very videogamey, less interesting than it could have been.
In one of the time zones Buck flees through, there is a restaurant with a little Japanese boy's birthday party inside. After the cake is cut, he kisses one of the guests, a little girl, on the cheek. After a brief rapid aging montage the boy is revealed to be a young Hiro Nakamura ( which is of course how I knew he was Japanese), and the scene cuts to outside the restaurant. Outside is a 'present aged' Hiro Nakamura and an oriental woman of approximately the same age, presumably the little girl. When the robot comes through, they act to make sure that the restaurant is safe. Then the scene plays again, but revealing that this time the middle aged couple in the crowd is also a suitably aged Hiro Nakamura and his presumably-girlfriend/wife/whatever. And then it happens again and again, showing a significant fraction of the crowd to be Hiros and friends from different time periods acting in concert to keep themselves safe. The interesting thing is that information only seems to have flowed up in age- no older Hiro has informed any of his younger copies that he's here, but is working to keep them safe, and is himself unaware that any even older copies are present. Very strange.
The last dream was basically a replay of a movie I could SWEAR I've seen before, at the Princess Cinema one of the first times I went. It's about a man who gets handed a lock of hair and becomes unstuck in time somehow. The woman who handed him the lock of hair intended for this to happen, as he becomes her lover in all of the time periods of her life, always being separated from her at some cruicial event when he becomes unstuck again. Through college, first work, first pregnancy, buying a home, middle age, retirement, everything, the man always slips away through no desire of his own and lives another time period. At the end of the movie, he manages to reanchor himself to present day, and walks to the girl's house (who doesn't really know him yet). The last scene of the movie is him walking into her bedroom, where she is in bed reading, and tossing the now very ragged lock of hair onto her bed.
So, besides interest in how structured my dreams are now, does anyone have any idea of what movie I'm thinking of? I'm pretty sure it's a three word title, and I know I had the title in my dream, but now I've lost it. I'm also annoyingly sure it's a real movie. Some of the details may have been crammed into those of other time travel movies, but I know the lock of hair in particular was a constant. Kaitlyn, if you've got anything, it would really help me out.
That's all for now.
The first involved Buck Godot, Zap Gun for Hire (a character from the Phil Foglio comic of the same name) activating an unstoppable guard machine during the course of one of his jobs, and accidentally activating a time portal in his flight from it, so that when he flees, it chases him through several time zones. Very videogamey, less interesting than it could have been.
In one of the time zones Buck flees through, there is a restaurant with a little Japanese boy's birthday party inside. After the cake is cut, he kisses one of the guests, a little girl, on the cheek. After a brief rapid aging montage the boy is revealed to be a young Hiro Nakamura ( which is of course how I knew he was Japanese), and the scene cuts to outside the restaurant. Outside is a 'present aged' Hiro Nakamura and an oriental woman of approximately the same age, presumably the little girl. When the robot comes through, they act to make sure that the restaurant is safe. Then the scene plays again, but revealing that this time the middle aged couple in the crowd is also a suitably aged Hiro Nakamura and his presumably-girlfriend/wife/whatever. And then it happens again and again, showing a significant fraction of the crowd to be Hiros and friends from different time periods acting in concert to keep themselves safe. The interesting thing is that information only seems to have flowed up in age- no older Hiro has informed any of his younger copies that he's here, but is working to keep them safe, and is himself unaware that any even older copies are present. Very strange.
The last dream was basically a replay of a movie I could SWEAR I've seen before, at the Princess Cinema one of the first times I went. It's about a man who gets handed a lock of hair and becomes unstuck in time somehow. The woman who handed him the lock of hair intended for this to happen, as he becomes her lover in all of the time periods of her life, always being separated from her at some cruicial event when he becomes unstuck again. Through college, first work, first pregnancy, buying a home, middle age, retirement, everything, the man always slips away through no desire of his own and lives another time period. At the end of the movie, he manages to reanchor himself to present day, and walks to the girl's house (who doesn't really know him yet). The last scene of the movie is him walking into her bedroom, where she is in bed reading, and tossing the now very ragged lock of hair onto her bed.
So, besides interest in how structured my dreams are now, does anyone have any idea of what movie I'm thinking of? I'm pretty sure it's a three word title, and I know I had the title in my dream, but now I've lost it. I'm also annoyingly sure it's a real movie. Some of the details may have been crammed into those of other time travel movies, but I know the lock of hair in particular was a constant. Kaitlyn, if you've got anything, it would really help me out.
That's all for now.