date: 2018-08-09
subject: metro walk, crazy flower lady

metro walk, crazy flower lady - 2018-08-09 - Entry 1564 - TOGoS's Journal

I was in Prague where I did work on some video game. For some reason we often worked from a park at the south edge of town, just beyond the terminal station of a metro line. I'd usually take the metro to the terminal station where I'd get off and get a coffee before walking the rest of the way to the park. The southern part of the line was above ground, and sometimes I'd instead get off at the last underground station, which was close to downtown, and walk the rest of the way along the tracks, which was a few miles.

It was awesome that I got to work on a game that I was exicted about (in the dream the game was not Factorio, but something more like Crystalis). The game had some state-of-the-art modding features combined with a unique graphics engine that I was really excited about, but there were also a lot of bugs that we were trying to work out. Of course since it's a dream the park became part of the game as we were testing it, blurring the boundary between what's inside the game and what's real. I was trying to add a new feature to the lighting sword, and trying to show off the work I had done on that feature to someone, which was difficult due to bugs. Then I went and got back on the metro, to go home, presumably.

Supposedly if you kept walking south past the park the road would take you up a hill and through a forest, out into the countryside. And if you kept walking far enough it would take you in a big loop and you'd end up back at the underground metro station just south of downtown. I couldn't quite recall if I knew this from having actually walked that entire route at some point or if I had just deduced that that's probably where the road went based on other information or if I was just making it up.

Shortly after leaving the underground tunnel there was a place where there was a grassy park between the tracks (not sure if it was different metro lines on either side or just the different directions of one line) which included a big ferris wheel. As I passed by the park on my journey south I was being narrated to about the history of the park and about how some rich guy had paid to build the ferris wheel.

Farther along was a section of tracks where they curved gently eastward and the ground sloped down into some bushes on either side. I was walking on the tracks here and had to get out of the way when a train came. It was pretty busy and often there would be trains going both directions. Here there were trains for the green and purple lines, and I jumped onto the southbound one as it passed. Like I guess it was going pretty slow so I was able to climb onto the roof or something.

I got off at the end of the line and kept walking. The way was not as obvious here, and there was a 'flower lady' that I always had to deal with. She was obviously had some mental problems and always gave me a hard time as I passed by. This time she tried to poison me with some chemical she had made from her flowers. I fought back by slicing her neck with a newspaper. I was successful at giving her a cut but it didn't incapacitate her. So maybe after that I ran, and I think that was the end of the dream.

I also had a dream where I went to a thing with Renee and felt awkward.