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newnumber6In this installment, my favorite bit of Canadian TV returns, I become a secret agent, a return to school again, and some kind of weird boardgame.
Okay, let's see, first of all, I had a weird semi-dream where I learned they restarted Prisoners of Gravity again. I say semi-dream because I think at one point I woke up and although I was semi-conscious, the creative part of my brain that produces dreams was still working on writing script. It wasn't like a lucid dream, it was almost the opposite, a non-lucid waking. I was aware I was in bed but my mind was so full of scripting the dream that I couldn't even verify to myself that, since it wasn't _really_ happening, that the show probably hadn't come back.
Anyway, the Prisoners of Gravity (for non Canadians on my list who've never seen it, PoG was a public television program discussing SF, fantasy, and comics, with the host interviewing lots of authors and such on any number of topics, ranging from violence in SF/fantasy/comics (abbreviated to SF from now on though they usually cover all 3) to the treatment of immortality, to profiles of one particular work or creator with interviews from many others who were influenced. It was a great show and my favorite bit of Canadian produced television and I frequently wish it'd return) episode had Commander Rick, back on Earth apparently and in a library, discussing SF's treatment of reading and literacy itself, both the impact on people reading (specifically citing Harry Potter for getting kids excited about reading) and the treatment of reading (where in many SF stories it's gone out of fashion), and perhaps the real future of reading.
That's about all I can remember about it.
Then I had a dream where I was James Bond. I didn't actually do anything though, just went out with a lady friend and showed off my ability to ALTER REALITY WITH MY MIND. Again, I wasn't entirely lucid - I knew I could alter reality in the same way as a lucid dreamer could, but I still thought I was James Bond and thought it was just a special ability I had. Not much action in it, sorry.
A dream where I did become briefly lucid was another 'return to high school' dream. First day of new class and it was about time to go to class, but I couldn't find my schedule and dropped all my books. Someone helped me and I realized it was a dream. Then I happened to see an old crush (from 10th grade, I think) and went over to say hello, just out of curiosity (and to get a fairly close look - a lot of times when I dream of specific real people, particularly ones I haven't seen in a long time, they don't visually resemble them very well, I just have a gut knowledge of who they are. This time she matched up fairly well with what was in my memory), but I woke up only seconds after that.
Then I had some kind of dream where me and some other people (who were at various points family and celebrities) to play a board game that was sort of a world conquering one like Risk, except with many more options than just war. Multiple players could play at once and I met some people (celebrities, though I can't say who or even if they were real ones) I didn't know too well who wanted to get invited and I said okay. Then eventually we got down to playing and I had a strange argument with a guy who played Josh on the West Wing, who apparently thought that I hated him and he hated me, and I explaiend to him that no, I liked him, I just pretended I didn't because I thought it was a running joke we both understood, joshing each other and the like (no pun intended, although that may be why my subconscious chose him since I have no other idea where it comes from), and that I was sorry he didn't like me but I don't have a problem with him.
ANyway, that's about it.
Okay, let's see, first of all, I had a weird semi-dream where I learned they restarted Prisoners of Gravity again. I say semi-dream because I think at one point I woke up and although I was semi-conscious, the creative part of my brain that produces dreams was still working on writing script. It wasn't like a lucid dream, it was almost the opposite, a non-lucid waking. I was aware I was in bed but my mind was so full of scripting the dream that I couldn't even verify to myself that, since it wasn't _really_ happening, that the show probably hadn't come back.
Anyway, the Prisoners of Gravity (for non Canadians on my list who've never seen it, PoG was a public television program discussing SF, fantasy, and comics, with the host interviewing lots of authors and such on any number of topics, ranging from violence in SF/fantasy/comics (abbreviated to SF from now on though they usually cover all 3) to the treatment of immortality, to profiles of one particular work or creator with interviews from many others who were influenced. It was a great show and my favorite bit of Canadian produced television and I frequently wish it'd return) episode had Commander Rick, back on Earth apparently and in a library, discussing SF's treatment of reading and literacy itself, both the impact on people reading (specifically citing Harry Potter for getting kids excited about reading) and the treatment of reading (where in many SF stories it's gone out of fashion), and perhaps the real future of reading.
That's about all I can remember about it.
Then I had a dream where I was James Bond. I didn't actually do anything though, just went out with a lady friend and showed off my ability to ALTER REALITY WITH MY MIND. Again, I wasn't entirely lucid - I knew I could alter reality in the same way as a lucid dreamer could, but I still thought I was James Bond and thought it was just a special ability I had. Not much action in it, sorry.
A dream where I did become briefly lucid was another 'return to high school' dream. First day of new class and it was about time to go to class, but I couldn't find my schedule and dropped all my books. Someone helped me and I realized it was a dream. Then I happened to see an old crush (from 10th grade, I think) and went over to say hello, just out of curiosity (and to get a fairly close look - a lot of times when I dream of specific real people, particularly ones I haven't seen in a long time, they don't visually resemble them very well, I just have a gut knowledge of who they are. This time she matched up fairly well with what was in my memory), but I woke up only seconds after that.
Then I had some kind of dream where me and some other people (who were at various points family and celebrities) to play a board game that was sort of a world conquering one like Risk, except with many more options than just war. Multiple players could play at once and I met some people (celebrities, though I can't say who or even if they were real ones) I didn't know too well who wanted to get invited and I said okay. Then eventually we got down to playing and I had a strange argument with a guy who played Josh on the West Wing, who apparently thought that I hated him and he hated me, and I explaiend to him that no, I liked him, I just pretended I didn't because I thought it was a running joke we both understood, joshing each other and the like (no pun intended, although that may be why my subconscious chose him since I have no other idea where it comes from), and that I was sorry he didn't like me but I don't have a problem with him.
ANyway, that's about it.
