My habit of reaching for the phone upon waking and checking my latest messages, even with nothing more to them than the daily spam that’s swiped to the trash, seems to be affecting my recall of any richer narrative from the streaming service of my subconscious, but because there must be something to the lingering remnants, please indulge me tracking them here:
- I was from the future, and as in that Bradbury story “A Sound of Thunder”, time travelers like me and former co-worker Karina had to keep to a path of shiny stones on the grounds of a party held at a fancy home in the country
- A small white mouse presented itself as a pest, and as all I had was a plastic knife, I tried futilely stabbing it, then pressing it down with the blade, which only resulted in its body stretching unnaturally as it escaped, though each time it successfully did so, the poor thing appeared to be growing weaker
- A previously unknown actor at a nearby table in the restaurant had just landed the role of Batman and we were congratulating him, recommending he prepare to be mobbed outside. Our group had to make do with Mr. Robot Rami Malek who himself had been cast in a smaller production as Nightwing
- You would certainly hope it was the voice actor (who gives off a strong King vibe) or Pérez’s almost-as-old version revisited in the recent con episode, because I had the glorious girth from a more virile age underneath
- Squid Game! The Among Us part of it, however, not the Fall Guys—I was dressed in the green track suit but wandering the “back end” and avoiding detection by the guards with some slick moves like waiting before stepping out of the elevator; in my arms was a child, and though I was able to get the family back together, the game masters blew up our house but I would survive by having been standing in the door frame and keep up the fight
- The wife and son were in an SUV but it was a stick and she kept sliding back
- A Flex Mentallo-looking villain with electrical superpowers was beset by a more than a dozen regular people with lesser ones, including Rick Moranis, and the sheer number of little shocks had him on the run; even his last-resort Zangief spinning fists held them at bay only because the low-budget special effect required everyone else to stay still while he was sped up
- Fell asleep on the couch in front of the TV, which became a newer monitor mounted higher up and repeating a short speech by a topless redhead, but after so many plays 老婆 asked me to turn it off without noticing her, and stopping that one switched to another video with her cosplaying as Red Sonja
- Woke up to news about someone dressed as the Joker stabbing passengers on a Tokyo subway, then dreamt about Rashida Jones as a female version of the character, with plenty of charisma, and a first-person perspective from a squad of armed law-enforcement agents descending upon her from the air
- We were on our way out of a parking garage and the wife goes first, sliding down a passage to the lower levels, but lands on the concrete noticeably uncomfortably before getting up and continuing, while I was held up above by columns of sinewy shapes and a growing crowd of men, one of them a former co-worker I lost contact with and didn’t have time to catch up, though another fellow was causing trouble and prompted a gay slur
- My father was driving us in the car and insisted we could make the tight corner down the stairs, but I doubted it and worried about getting stuck
- Triggering my fear of heights as it did, I was fortunate enough to find myself already at the top of series of comically tall escalators and told Angie that we were at the highest point inside the vast marble-lined artificial cavern, though I could see others to the side taking people even further upward
- Juan, who helped clean up the office and did odd jobs in the warehouse, retrieved my spiral notebook, which had at least one page of handwritten passwords, and couldn’t tell me specifically where he found it, despite my attempt to explain the security risk (and maybe offload some of it on him); meanwhile, Amit, who led IT at a later employer, asked me to assist him with a login issue unbecoming of his position, though jeopardizing all our company data with the janitor likewise reflected poorly on my worthiness
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