More sleepy ideas
Jan. 4th, 2008 05:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Dream last night was another 'full fledged story idea'. Well, nearly full fledged, anyway, and there's no ending, but as an idea that could be fleshed out, it's decent. It was in the guise of a plot for a new TV show I heard about, airing in England. It was called Zargate, which amused me in the dream because it was so close to Stargate (but completely unrelated). Immediately following the dream, my mind set to work on analyzing (in the poor way it does at 2am) whether it would be a good idea, which melded nicely into a second dream in which I was telling people the idea and getting thoughts and reactions and developing it. I can't entirely piece together which bits of the plot came from which dream, so I'll just write it as if it's one seamless whole:
Okay, the plot followed a mysterious structure that appeared in London. It was sort of T-shaped. The bottom of the T was a parking garage. The top was a one or two floor that stretched out on all sides.
The problem is nobody knew who made it, and it was virtually indestructable. Moreover, before it was noticed, many people disappeared into it, and it was generating heat, a lot of heat... like enough heat that if anybody was inside, one would have to assume they'd been burned to death, but nobody could get in to find out. A cop or private eye (can't remember/be sure which, probably was both at different parts of the dream), named Zargate, who was investigating one particular disappearance, stumbled upon clues that lead him to get a mysterious 'invitation' to come inside at a specific place and time, but only if he came alone, and when he did, did go inside.
The building was sort of TARDIS like in that it was bigger inside than outside... far bigger, in fact. The building was a whole civilization, either time advanced or not I'm not sure, but a lot of the disappearees were invited to join it. The heat spilling off it was actually the waste heat of an entire civilization, directed outwards. The details of the civilization were left sketchy (I remember one dream I was discussing with people on what it should be, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fiddlersgreen suggested that cognitive dissonance was good, and that since it was in the middle of a city, it maybe should be agrarian). Anyway, one of the elements of the plots is that some people _did_ leave, but when they did, they were memory-wiped of any knowledge of the place.
In the TV series (since thats what it was in the dream), this would happen to Zargate at one point, but he'd find his way back to the truth due to tattoos on his head, hidden under his hair.
Okay, the plot followed a mysterious structure that appeared in London. It was sort of T-shaped. The bottom of the T was a parking garage. The top was a one or two floor that stretched out on all sides.
The problem is nobody knew who made it, and it was virtually indestructable. Moreover, before it was noticed, many people disappeared into it, and it was generating heat, a lot of heat... like enough heat that if anybody was inside, one would have to assume they'd been burned to death, but nobody could get in to find out. A cop or private eye (can't remember/be sure which, probably was both at different parts of the dream), named Zargate, who was investigating one particular disappearance, stumbled upon clues that lead him to get a mysterious 'invitation' to come inside at a specific place and time, but only if he came alone, and when he did, did go inside.
The building was sort of TARDIS like in that it was bigger inside than outside... far bigger, in fact. The building was a whole civilization, either time advanced or not I'm not sure, but a lot of the disappearees were invited to join it. The heat spilling off it was actually the waste heat of an entire civilization, directed outwards. The details of the civilization were left sketchy (I remember one dream I was discussing with people on what it should be, and
fiddlersgreen suggested that cognitive dissonance was good, and that since it was in the middle of a city, it maybe should be agrarian). Anyway, one of the elements of the plots is that some people _did_ leave, but when they did, they were memory-wiped of any knowledge of the place. In the TV series (since thats what it was in the dream), this would happen to Zargate at one point, but he'd find his way back to the truth due to tattoos on his head, hidden under his hair.
