D R E A M S

Synthesizing the plot from the latest Ultimate Nightmare by Warren Ellis as well as the plot from one of the recent West Wings and keeping the recent theme of flight, my brain made a pretty cool dream last night. Unfortunately, I don't remember most of the details.

I remember the basic plot was that there was a comet approaching earth. Not on a collision course, but coming very close. Also, this comet starts broadcasting some sort of signal as it approaches. The signal is encrypted, so that it's being received by many parties, but the parties don't know what to make of it. My team, I guess, is going into space to "get a closer look." Someone very much resembling Jean Grey from the X-Men is on the space ship with me, as well as some others.

As we get close to the comet, Jean turns around dramatically and she is silhouetted in bright white light and sixteen little glowing lights appear in front of her forehead and she begins decrypting the signal. It says something about being careful in the next days to detect for a specific kind of radiation in our atmosphere, and it gives the detailed radio-whatever kind of information. I sort of deduce that the signal is a sort of "heads up" that the comet is giving off a certain radiation, and they're being courteous so that we can I guess try and de-radiate after the comet passes.

For anyone reading Ultimate Nightmare the correlations are pretty obvious.

As for West Wing, I think it ties in because the episode I watched last night on Tivo was about this guy who works for a chemical manufacturer who wants to blow the whistle on some intentional polluting the company is doing. It's almost as if there is someone in the comet who is trying to warn people how bad the radiation from the comet is or something.

Also, I don't remember exactly why, now, but I got the distinct impression all through the dream that something ELSE was going to happen at the end, but there was like this plot twist, which seemed very Ellis-like, to me, during the dream. While I was not conscious of dreaming, I was conscious of being in a sort of space that was written or something. I mean, it's pretty interesting to me that my dream self was able to recognize plot elements unfolding, but didn't make the connection to being in a dream. Weird.

Either way, I feel like this is a step in a good direction toward being conscious in the unconscious realm.

What do you think?

Brian posted at 11:59 AM.