World 8-1
Strange Dreams

My holiday card for 2007.

Had a dream in which I was with a group of others on a rocky coastline, with many large and strange rock formations. I walked to the edge of the water with my camera in hope of photographing the recently sighted giant crab that was 16-feet in diameter.  Unfortunately I could only find two different, smaller species that were 5 and 7 feet in diameter, moving around the submerged rocks a few feet offshore.

My 2006 holiday card.

A birthday card for co-worker Keith Miron.

A birthday card for co-worker Brett Rubin.

Had a terrible dream in which my girlfriend had decided to end our relationship so she could return to her original plane of existence and ride sea horses for a living.  I spent the remainder of the dream trying to convince her to stay by reminiscing about obscure, unreleased Sonic games that were playable only on old NEC development kits.

Had a strange dream where I spent a night at someone’s house while waiting for the monster truck I crashed to be fixed. The house was owned and shared by several familiar game industry journalists, whome I’ve never met in real life, but nevertheless we were all great friends in the dream.

Friends and I were in an immense, pitch black room in Wonderland, with hundreds of other Wonderlands denizens, awaiting the arrival of the Queen.  Our goal was to have her cut someone’s head off, but not ours.  The Queen finally arrived, she and her entourage were 3 stories high, and constructed of bad, 90′s CG.  As they walked slowly across the red carpet in front of the large audience, we performed various acts to incite disorder without drawing attention to ourselves.  I was finally able to trigger her trademark loss of temper by cannonballing off a high ladder into the unsuspecting crowd.

Recalling another old dream, where I was a knight among a group of knights. We walked through a small forest of thin, light-brown spruce trees with a babbling brook nearby, and we encountered a massive dragon that breathed boulders that shook the ground around us when they came slamming into the earth from one of its three heads. One of the only dragon-dreams I’ve ever had, and I think I died.

I recalled an old, angry dream where I had offensive telepathic powers, ala Tetsuo. I was in a small apartment battling another person, where I would crush the walls of the room in around them. We battled until the apartment building was destroyed completely.