jaune_chat: My cat Timothy, a cream-and-tan mackrel tabby (Going Mad Feels Like)
I just had a weird dream. I can't quite recall if in the dream I was fully participating with everything or if I was watching a TV show about it. But I recall the following things:

There was a long tracking shot around a busy office (the kind of long, continuous tracking shot you get when a director is being clever, hence why the TV show thing springs to mind). Around the office were the following things: Alton Brown and Ellen DeGenres playing D&D together at a cocktail party, a couple guys from some show that were being sent to the courthouse for some legal thing, a female intern/office runner that was sent with them, and I think someone, possibly the guys going to the courthouse, might have been in swim trunks.

I think that most of the people from the office, plus me, were then supposed to all go somewhere. I believe it may have been a submarine?

Then there was a chase up and down a long downtown city block, which I vaguely recognized as a cross between my hometown and Chicago. There were two versions of this chase, which both ended in the same way. I was trying to get past a co-worker of mine (and somehow simultaneously pack items to go with my on the journey I was going to take once I got past him). Someone else (a female and blonde) was walking on a ledge above my head and jumped down to save me/distract this co-worker.

Then the co-worker rushed my savior with a cartoonishly big axe (even in the dream I realized how ludicrously outsized it was) and cut down, severing some big cable. This has the effect of destabilizing a heavy slab that had been suspected over the street, which falls and slides. In one version of the dream, he cuts the cable and then it jumps to the aftermath, where the slab had gone down the street away from us. In the other version, the slab goes towards my co-worker and squashes him (but I and my savior are fine).

Oh, and at some point at running from my crazy co-worker I remember going by an old, beat-up cookie stand/store that was set up like one might be in a sports arena, but along the street. I distinctly remember that they sold chocolate chip cookies and that their oven was broken. They had a sign up that said the oven only got to 165 degrees F when it was supposed to be "hot" and 336 degrees when it was supposed to be super-hot or something. And they were trying to raise money for a new oven.

Brain, WTF? Alton Brown and Ellen DeGenres playing D&D together at a cocktail party?
jaune_chat: My cat Timothy, a cream-and-tan mackrel tabby (Don't Bend)
Ok, so here's an odd thing about me. Despite being born in 1980, I did not have a video game console growing up. Never played Nintendo or Sega or anything. I enjoyed watching other people play video games or computer games, but I was never good at them myself, mostly due to a severe lack of practice and an unwillingness to be whumped repeatedly by anyone I knew that had video games (barring a few Duke Nukem and Heretic deathmatches between my dad, sister, and I on my dad's office network after hours. I usually lost, badly).

So I never learned how to play until I was in college, my senior year. 2003. The game I cut my teeth on was Super Smash Bros. Melee for Gamecube. This is essentially all the Nintendo characters in a single third-person brawl on sets from any number of the games they've put out. So you could play Mario versus Link on a level of Metroid. And it can be done as a four-player melee. Needless to say, that's a really freaking steep learning curve for a virtual video game virgin, but as all my roommates played, I learned (though many diligent hours of dedicated practice on solo runs), and it was a blast.

Even now I only own four video games (Smash Bros., SSX 3, Mario Kart Double Dash, and Kirby Airride), and have no real desire to go find more. And I'm still using a Gamecube. Yes, I'm dreadfully behind the times. Shut up.

So the four games I know, I know really damn well. One of them is a game called SSX3, which is a snowboarding game. You race down a course or do tricks, gain points and money, improve your character, buy stuff, and do various challenges. Each of the 9 or so characters is unique and fun, and they all have a distinct style and say a wide variety of things. Heck, you could write fanfic about that game. (Which I've actually considered doing.)

But I don't play SSX3 that often. As a matter of fact, I probably hadn't played it in almost a year before I busted it out last week for some fun. So I was suitably surprised when I had a very detailed dream about it.

In SSX3, there are three levels of play, each one harder than the last. You have Peak 1, 2, and 3. That's it. Once you conquer Peak 3 and have done all the challenges, that's basically the game. But in my dream, suddenly I realize there's another level! I can use the prize money I've won from the first three Peaks to buy some snowmobiles (lolwut? This is a snowboarding game) and then I'm transported to South Africa (it's known for it's skiing, right? Wtf, brain?) to compete for the gold. I'm playing the character Zoe Payne, and the very first qualifying race is inside a hotel. The original game is kinda bonkers, and one race does take place on the city streets, but in my dream I have Zoe flying down the slopes, which are actually the snow-covered stairs of the hotel, doing more falling than actual boarding, because it's so steep. She's basically sliding a little bit and then hopping the railing and falling down to another level over and over again. And people are coming out of their rooms on every other landing, so she has to dodge them as she boards.

When she finally gets to the finish line (in the hotel lobby, which is covered in snow, natch) she's roundly cheered by several others of the SSX crew who also finished. But it wasn't all of them, because the race was really dangerous and some racers didn't make it. Some really big-shot Japanese racer named Nikodashi was supposed to be the big frontrunner, but he got hurt, and everyone was really impressed that Zoe finished and qualified, even though they were all still her rivals. And BTW, there is no character named Nikodashi in the SSX3 game.

Uh... sure thing, brain. What are you on and why aren't you sharing?
jaune_chat: My cat Timothy, a cream-and-tan mackrel tabby (NoChargeForAwesomeness)
Man, I had a weird dream last night. And I remembered it too, which isn't normal.

So I dreamt that Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine were driving past my house in a pickup truck, and as they turned the corner, Zach flew out the window and somehow ended up planted neck-deep in my lawn (with no injury, of course, to him or my lawn). Chris drove off without looking back. I, already being outside for some reason, helped pull Zack out of my lawn. I stammered that I really liked him in Heroes and Star Trek, and we struck up some vaguely pleasant conversation, like one does with a friendly but newly-met acquaintance.

At one point, I wanted to write him a note to take with him, so I wrote it on a Wavy Lays potato chip. But of course it broke into several pieces when he went to put it in his pocket, so I re-wrote it on paper, adding my phone number and e-mail address. Zach smiled and took it, and then had to go catch up with Chris, because they had to go to work or something.

Then I woke up.

What the hell is my brain smoking and why isn't it sharing? That's what I want to know.

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