Jaron's Dreams
| April 24, 2009, 9:00 AM A game of Mario Brothers and a weird, weird church |
| I had a dream where we were watching a movie, or somebody was playing a game, and they came to a room that had a painting on the wall to the right of a doorway. Eric Folsom's head popped out of the painting, and he gave them some kind of a threat or warning. Eric, some others, and I were watching this; and Eric said, "Oh, hey, I remember doing that!" I got the feeling it was something we worked on before years ago.
In another part of the dream, I was outside with a bunch of people on a bright sunny day. We were sitting with our backs against a van playing Nintendo on a screen that was inside of a house. Steve Force (a fellow co-worker) was playing Mario Brothers, and he was making it pretty far in the level; but I kept trying to convince him to let me play on the tough levels because he was losing lives left and right. Finally he made it to world 8-3 with one life left. Realizing I was a better player, he gave me the controller to get past the level, because he wanted to finish the game. The controller was square and the buttons were in odd places, but I began playing anyway. I jumped over a few lava pits, and I paused the game in mid-jump so that I could play inside the house. It took me a while to get into a position where I wasn't stretching the cord, but finally I was ready to play again. I began trying to hold the controller and realized I couldn't orient it properly. No matter which way I turned it, I couldn't get the buttons to fit to the right fingers like I could a normal Nintendo controller. I was under pressure to play, so I unpaused it and quickly jumped (I had landed on one of those one-block landings where you need to immediately jump again before you slide off into another pit). A beetle started heading toward me, and I tried desperately to find the right buttons to jump or move, while simultaneously trying to orient the controller properly. Finally in desperation I looked for the pause button, but it was too late. The beetle got me and the game ended. Steve said, "I thought you were a better player than that, you sure messed up my game," or something to that effect. In yet another part of the dream, I found myself in a church with lots of people. The church looked like a church called Moniteau Chapel found near my home in Missouri. I sat in the front left pew. In our bulletin there was a narrative explaining how dogs and turtles were believed to be going to heaven. I thought, "Is this a joke?" We were about to sing a hymn, so I picked up this gigantic hymnal half the size of me (literally), and flipped it open to a song. The song had some kind of a weird, worldly theme, and it was laced with a bit of profanity. I distinctly remember it having the word "bitches" in it. I was wondering if this would have some sort of connection to a hard-hitting message, because of its controversial nature. While we were singing it, a little boy a few people to the left of me began crying. A girl got on stage to sing, but I noticed that she was dressed so sloppily that you could see her undergarments. She realized this too, so she began singing with her back to the audience. Thoughts anyone? This was a weird, weird one. |