date: 2012-02-20 (Monday) 12:00
tags: 575-roommate-dreams, basement-dreams, rain-dreams

2012-02-20 (Monday) 12:00 - Entry 1255 - TOGoS's Journal

I woke up in the middle of the night and saw two moons out my window. One was the moon as you'd normally expect it to look, and the other was all detailed and high-contrasty. There was an elevated garage, and a rectangular truck with no wheels floated out of it. It looked like something out of one of the Star Trek movies. I had no idea why I'd woken up in this time and place, but it didn't bother me much. I decided that I wasn't dreaming and that I was really there, and then I went back to bed.

I was living in a house with Fizz and A-Day and the Bens. Jared might've been there, also. It was on the edge of Lake Monona, around where Monona Terrace is. It had 2 stories, with Ben and maybe someone else living upstairs (sort of like at 575), and the living room with some couches and computers at the back of the house at the bottom of the stairs. I feel like that side of the house was up against a wall of some sort, because from the living room I could look out along the shore through large windows on the sides of the house, but there was nothing to look at behind me, and I felt like we were well protected on that side. Which was good, because it was thunderstorming outside. There was a big old lightning bolt just to the west of our house. I wasn't afraid of the storm, but I suggested that we all get cozy in the living room. And then I thought, even better, let's go down into the basement!

Fizz didn't think that was such a great idea. He said "but the basment leaks and is wet." I went down to check it out, and sure enough, water was falling from the ceiling like rain (sort of like how water will drop through a single layer of rock in Minecraft, but much more profusely). There was one room where we had put a couch, and water was dripping down onto the couch. This basement had many rooms and extended beyond the footprint of the house (there was even a tunnel that would take you outside to the shore), but even the parts that were fully under the house had rain. Which didn't make any sense, because it wasn't raining upstairs! I puzzled over this.

           ___________
          |     __    |
     _____|    |  |   |__
    |   __     |  |      |
    |  |  |____|  |  extended basement rooms
tunnel |          |      |
    |  |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ backing wall
    |  |    :  living room   :
    |  |    :                :   (more extended basement?)
    |  |    :  | |stairs| |  :
    |  |    |  |__________|  | ← first floor
            :                :   of house
~~~~~~~~    :                :
        ~   |_...__....__..._|
         ~
,,,,      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    ,  beach/shore walkway
     ,,
       ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
   lake

In the future, the US Governent (Congress, President, Judiciary) had all been replaced by a single guy. He was a very nice fellow, and the country had become much smaller (by several orders of magnitude, which is what allowed this to happen), so this worked well. He was sort of king of his own island. And in the dream, it was a small island. There was some fat singing lady in there, but I forgot what she had to do with anything. I was hanging out with the king, and he wanted me to accomplish some task for him that required the use of rope, radios, and a customized bike that he had built out of two bikes. As I remember it, they were bolted together at the front, and separated in the back ,forming a tricycle. I was supposed to sit on the seat of the bike on the left (which was red) and push the pedals of the bike on the right (which was brown, and whose front wheel was lifted up in the air and just spun around in the wind). Somehow this actually worked. So I thanked him for the help and set off to accomplish the mission.

The mission involved collecting fruits (they looked like honeydew melons) from trees on different parts of the island. I started out with some trees right out in front of the whitehouse/palace, but soon had to move on. I started heading towards some structures on the coast to the southeast, but then for some reason decided to go north, instead. There was a beach, and then a road into some woods. The road had lava pits. I recklessly skipped over several lava pits and then fell into one, causing me to lose all my gear and respawn at the whitehouse. Since I had used up the king's gift, my new task was to find parts to build a new bike. I was frustrated and quit without saving, hoping that would revert to before the point where I jumped into the lava.

I haven't actually played Minecraft for several weeks.