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a glimpse of the future
10 May 2007 01:26 amI should have written this dream down when I woke up, but by then I was ravenous and forgot about it.
And now I've forgotten most of it =(
It was cool! I'm sure there were people trying to kill each other, but at the moment I can't remember who was trying to kill who and why and what exactly happened.
It was a futuristic society. Some people had these "cars" (or maybe miniplanes) that could become airborne, and it could reach a height where it could sail through low-lying clouds. It was an overcast sky (in fact, it seems that the sky's always overcast in that world, since my dream seemed to span several days)
It was really cool, but if you sail through clouds, sometimes the turbulence would make your "car" rattle uncontrollably.
The buildings were a silvery grey colour, glossy but not metallic. The entire city was sprawling with skyscrapers, and by skyscrapers, they were skyscrapers. At the sailing-through-clouds height my "car" reached, I couldn't scale the height of the tallest building. The city was constantly dim and murky because of the huge shadows the buildings cast over each other, but this building, because it was so tall, actually caught the orange hue of sunlight on its dark-tinted windows.
When you're on the "miniplane" and looking down beneath, the city is sunken in shadow, the buildings jut unevenly out of the darkness. At that height, you can't see the humans, and so the city looks eerily still and empty.
Though the city was built by the sea, even some of the taller buidings (and at the height I was at) can't see the sea because it's been obscured by other buildings and a muddy fog that refused to lift.
Only when you dip lower and wind through the streets (in your, uh, "car") can you see the water. There is a river running through the city, dividing it to two shores, but seems like a stream as it was so dwarfed by the buildings. At night, the water is dark and is lit dimly by the orange lights of the roads that line it. If you fly out towards the mouth of the river, the water disappears into a grey fog, which merges with complete darkness. If you turn around at the mouth of the river and face the way back, the city is still dim and quiet, and everything gets obscured by the fog.
It didn't look too alien on the ground, but when you're airborne, everything is silent and the city stops moving. Away from the artificial lights, a huge shadow veils the city in darkness, and the buildings that vie to be tallest become uniformly indistinct.
And for some alarming reason, I was bothered during that entire dream by a sense of having been there before, and apparently, in another dream........?
And now I've forgotten most of it =(
It was cool! I'm sure there were people trying to kill each other, but at the moment I can't remember who was trying to kill who and why and what exactly happened.
It was a futuristic society. Some people had these "cars" (or maybe miniplanes) that could become airborne, and it could reach a height where it could sail through low-lying clouds. It was an overcast sky (in fact, it seems that the sky's always overcast in that world, since my dream seemed to span several days)
It was really cool, but if you sail through clouds, sometimes the turbulence would make your "car" rattle uncontrollably.
The buildings were a silvery grey colour, glossy but not metallic. The entire city was sprawling with skyscrapers, and by skyscrapers, they were skyscrapers. At the sailing-through-clouds height my "car" reached, I couldn't scale the height of the tallest building. The city was constantly dim and murky because of the huge shadows the buildings cast over each other, but this building, because it was so tall, actually caught the orange hue of sunlight on its dark-tinted windows.
When you're on the "miniplane" and looking down beneath, the city is sunken in shadow, the buildings jut unevenly out of the darkness. At that height, you can't see the humans, and so the city looks eerily still and empty.
Though the city was built by the sea, even some of the taller buidings (and at the height I was at) can't see the sea because it's been obscured by other buildings and a muddy fog that refused to lift.
Only when you dip lower and wind through the streets (in your, uh, "car") can you see the water. There is a river running through the city, dividing it to two shores, but seems like a stream as it was so dwarfed by the buildings. At night, the water is dark and is lit dimly by the orange lights of the roads that line it. If you fly out towards the mouth of the river, the water disappears into a grey fog, which merges with complete darkness. If you turn around at the mouth of the river and face the way back, the city is still dim and quiet, and everything gets obscured by the fog.
It didn't look too alien on the ground, but when you're airborne, everything is silent and the city stops moving. Away from the artificial lights, a huge shadow veils the city in darkness, and the buildings that vie to be tallest become uniformly indistinct.
And for some alarming reason, I was bothered during that entire dream by a sense of having been there before, and apparently, in another dream........?
