Last night I had a disturbing Sci-Fi dream.  First off, I don't take any interest in science fiction, haven't watched a science fiction show or movie since Reagan was in office, and so have no idea why this was bouncing around in my head.

 

Synopsis: there was no plot to this dream, only a disturbing central character, a blue head mounted on a thin wire mesh sphere that had a geodesic-ish pattern.  The head's guts were in a clear bag suspended across the interior of the sphere, roughly where the intestines would be located anyway.  The being buzzed about a lab at a high speed on his two wheels, presumably working on a similar principle to a segway scooter.

 

The blue head had a rotten, bitchy attitude.  Apparently the decision to be removed from his body was a voluntary one, and in fact it was self-evident that he had designed the procedure.  With his get-up he didn't have to sleep and could grace the world with his brilliant brain 24-7, for hundreds of years.  He obviously was totally vulnerable to easy death since his guts weren't protected by anything substantial (and in fact since he moved so rapidly and the guts were so disgusting, I did not study how exactly his head and the bag were integrated), but he looked more than content to live out his years in this remote lab (colored faint blue) with no friends doing whatever brilliant things that he was doing.  The whole premise was that I was too stupid to both understand what his research was and why someone would choose to be removed from their body.         

 

I sketched this drawing, but it doesn't project the intense presence of Mr. Blue Head:

 

So is this character a rip-off of some existing character, or did I actually dream this up?  Will it will reappear to haunt me, or possibly those who have clicked on this thread? 

 

 

That's pretty crazy looking.  I don't recognize it specifically from anywhere, but the concept of buying immortality by giving up our graceful human bodies for some sort of grotesque replacement is an old one in Sci-fi.  But I'm not a major sci-fi geek myself so that's all I have to add.

Maybe it wasn't really a dream, but a failed attempt to repress a memory of alien abduction.

 

 

 

 

 

:wink:

 

:?

 

 

Maybe it wasn't really a dream, but a failed attempt to repress a memory of alien abduction.

 

 

 

 

 

:wink:

 

:?

 

 

 

The closest thing I can think of is that people have had transparent bodies in the X-Files.  Like in the first movie, when they were gestating aliens inside people's bodies in Antartica....  You can see the aliens moving around in the people's bodies.

the arms remind me of one of my favorite saturday afternoon/latenite tv movies, the green slime. maybe you saw that somewhere? the monsters had arms like that. check it out (the movie wins best opening song award too):

 

or wait....maybe box from logan's run?

 

 

the body might be some kind of buckminster fuller reference, perhaps brought on by od'ing on urban ohio? or anyway bucky is in the zeitgiest again as there is a retrospective currently up at the whitney museum until fall and some of his stuff has popped up in chelsea galleries lately.

 

http://www.whitney.org/

 

 

 

the blue might be some kind of smurf's flashback. hmm.

 

 

the guts? i'm not getting anythin -- i just flash on yule log. i'll have think about that one.

 

Was he looking for his stuffed bear, Bobo?

 

 

Either that, or maybe you were abducted by Tool and put in one of their videos.

^ ah ha! yes! with some futurama thrown in on the side?

 

I realized one thing...that the bag full of intestines was directly reminiscent of the bags of chicken when I worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken.  Anyone who works there knows that you grab large clear bags of maybe 20 pieces of chicken and there a lot of blood in every bag.  After you toss the chicken in the breading, you have to pour out the chicken blood before throwing out the bag and there can be quite a bit of chicken blood in there.  Anyway influence solved so far as that part of the dream goes.

 

The head I'm less sure about.  I think it might have been influenced by the recent Greyhound beheading, but it's interesting to note that the neck attatched to the spherical framework with total precision and no obvious method of attachment. 

 

The sphere body was definitely like a geodesic dome, and I remember being conscious that I was dreaming, and in the dream trying to remember the pattern because it was another way to make a dome or sphere shape!  Well that billion dollar observation slipped my mind so I'm going to have to be content being poor a little while longer. 

 

I did recently observe a Newport, KY police officer patrolling the city on a segway scooter at night, and that might have been the influence for the two wheeled locomotion and two side-by-side wheels being "authoritative". 

 

I don't remember many dreams, but writing this down caused me to remember another recent one, where a student at the school where I teach had gotten The Pope to sit for a portrait in the school's studio.  Specifically, it was Pope John Paul II, and my initial jealousy at the student for getting someone as prestigious as The Pope to sit for a student assignment was quickly replaced by anger because the student didn't have his act together and couldn't get his equipment working right.  But The Pope was incredibly patient and didn't look as though he was bothered in the least.  That dream just fizzled out without me getting to see the final product!       

That's an interesting dream. I do like sci-fi but the only dream I get is of women in tight silvery one-piece leotards complete w/a hoods that cover their head. They are taking over the world and one sneaks under a bed w/me, then it ends. :( A strange dream I had while on vacation: I went home to my mom's in Warren and we went to Niles to my grandma's (sold long ago--the house, not the grandmother, she died), there I found a little rubber finger-puppet bear I lost when I was about 5. It was just in a cupboard, plain as day.

I thought the guts looked like drum sticks so you may be on to something with the kfc association

I had another disturbing dream, as is any that is set in...Los Angeles. 

 

The premise of this dream is that I was set up on a blind date with my friend's ex-wife...in Los Angeles.  There was golden late afternoon sunlight for the whole dream.  Basically we had tickets to The Grammy's or another big event at The Kodak Theater but we got there and the event wasn't well attended so we left.  We went to an old-time amusement park like Coney Island but it was several miles inland from the coast, probably influenced by passing that landlocked Six Flags in Houston.  It was dusty and quaint but we didn't ride any rides because some teenagers were irritating me.   

 

Then we were back at some generic apartment sitting on a bland couch and there was a guitar sitting there but there was only a ridiculously heavy pick and so I couldn't play very well.  I always hate playing with a nickel or some other coin when there's no pick, but I'm intimidated by Frank Zappa's famous use of a nickel, because he obviously didn't have any trouble.  Then there was a pick that was at the end of a handle, kind of like a foam brush you'd use on some home project, but that didn't work well either.  Then Slash appeared and ignored me and I kept my mouth shut but I wanted to call him out for not evolving as a player in the last 20 years. 

 

There was also a part that involved an intimidating middle-aged female Asian college professor with black-rimmed glasses, but I don't remember what was going on in that part other than I was in trouble for something. 

 

Overall the date was awkward and I didn't make eye contact with my friend's ex-wife even once.  I don't know who set us up on the date but I was just trying to "make it through" the date.  I think the person who set up the date knew that we knew each other, but for some reason thought it would work out.   

 

Discuss. 

 

 

Wait, Jake I know where your first dream image came from.  In the movie Toy Story the little fucked up kid, Sid takes the head of a baby doll and puts it on a spider body.  Could this be it? I dont feel like searching for a picture, otherwise I would post one.