Dreamtime

[tysolna]

Ah, work, the time of the week when I actually have enough leisure to post here. Weird, eh?

About as weird as the dream I had last night, when I found myself on a parallel Earth, accompanied by a friend. There was something subtly wrong on this parallel Earth - we first noticed it while watching the Lord of the Rings movie, and confirmed it by browsing through the book. It started similar enough, but instead of the underlying theme of friendship, and loyalty, and good vs bad, it was reduced to an army under the command of Aragorn burning and pillaging their way through Middle Earth, forcing the Gondorians to fight on their side, and enslaving the Elves.
It seemed as if things like politeness, friendship, courtesy and community were all gone from this place, replaced by egotism, "me-first"-ness and elbow power.
Further confirmation of the wrong-ness of this parallel Earth was achieved when we saw a production of Verdi's Ernani (parallel vision had one version of my friend in the audience and one on the stage), which ended with Ernani killing de Silva, among other things. Even Beatles songs on the radio sounded wrong.
This parallel Earth was a dark shadow cast sideways off of this one, and to set it right, we needed to find out the exact event which caused the split. Too bad I woke up before we found it. Still, I can hear the plot bunnies grazing.

And one of the guys in the Harold Pinter play I'm digitizing sounds like William Shatner.

Comments

[pet-lunatic.livejournal.com]

Parallel earth sounds extremely cool ;D I'd like to read/see that version of LoTR...

[tysolna]

While in the dream, everything felt very, very wrong; the scary thing was that until we set things right, we couldn't come back to our earth.
In the light of day, it's a lot more interesting!

The version of LOTR, especially the movie, seemed to play mainly in a rocky lava-like surrounding close to a salt sea. The Hobbits were ruthless little beasts...

[tysolna]

Sometimes, our minds speak clearly in our dreams.

[manchester-red.livejournal.com]

Hi Sus, is your phone not working? I sent you a text . . .

[tysolna]

It is working alright; but I was out with the guys and had left it at home.

[manchester-red.livejournal.com]

'but instead of the underlying theme of friendship, and loyalty, and good vs bad, it was reduced to an army under the command of Aragorn burning and pillaging their way through Middle Earth, forcing the Gondorians to fight on their side, and enslaving the Elves.'


Hey! Sounds great to me! ;-)

[tysolna]

:-P

[wanderbohemian.livejournal.com]

LJ spotlight is currently featuring a dream analysis group...what timing...