Haven’t done one of these in a while, but I want to get thoughts down before I forget it.
Had an odd dream last night. It took place in the future, just when humankind had developed a new form of energy derived from water (apparently super-effective). It followed a family of 4; the mother, father, daughter, and son; and I kept on switching perspectives from an outsider (as if I was watching a movie) to a participant (as the father and, sometimes, as a third child).
The thing is, the process of using water as energy in this way makes the water “magical” (that was the actual word used) and is diverted from the primary water supply to a special holding pool in the northern part of the city. Said water was gold in color (kinda like sparkly urine), “flows faster than normal water” (and you can see undercurrents of gold in the primary rivers and lakes), and is someone capable of spawning new life (how was never really explained). For that reason, all sex and “natural” reproduction is banned. Also worth noting is that this society was a Utopia… a perfect, pristine, sparking city of chrome and glass with trees and wildlife everywhere. Also lots of rivers and lakes and waterfalls, naturally. So beautiful… I wish I could draw, so I could recreate the scene.
The mother and father were present for the “grand switching,” when everyone on earth switched from coal and nuclear to the new power source. The daughter and son were born by the new process (from the holding pools of magical water).
In any case, life is good, and then one winter day the family goes up to the north to the holding pool of special water. The daughter (who is only 2 but can already speak, read, and write like a middle school student) tells her parents (who are reading and relaxing on the ice by the water) she is going to go exploring. Then we watch as the brother (who is now, for some inexplicable reason, an insect) slowly dies and eventually stops moving. No one seems to care. We then follow the parents as they go to the edge of another pool only to find a note from their daughter, “I’m going to play with my friend organisms!” (written in red sharpie, no less). The assumption here is that she has “unborn” herself by jumping back into the pool where she was created (whether on purpose or on accident doesn’t really matter). I remember crying in the dream, and the mother comforting me with, “Oh well, there’ll be more.”
I also remember thinking, as the dream progressed, with the knowledge that this entire thing took place in Alaska in the winter, that there was way too much daylight for too many hours per day. Odd thought to have.
Also interesting to think about is that eventually the water supply is going to run out, since this method of using water for energy makes it unusable after consumption. I remember the thought occuring to me when they were first switching to the system, but someone reassured me (in the dream) that water was infinite and we’d never run out. Hmm.
Heh, I wonder what religious groups would have to say about aspects of this dream. And it’s also odd that that’s the first thing that I wondered when I woke up and remembered it.
Also discovered what I consider the best haiku ever on the KoL forums today:
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It actually works!
Have to run to work. Will edit this post later with a picture for today.
Edit: As promised…
Wall in front of someone’s house on Morewood Ave., stylized.
