Wednesday, August 23, 2006

God is a Cornrolled Head

I had this dream last night, and it was a Bruce Willis a la 12 Monkey type thing. We were in the huge museum, with two reactor tanks of heavy water or whatever, and the idea is that there is a bomb (what else) in that water, and the whole place, with thousands of people, blows up when the specialists finally find out where the bomb is and tries to deactivate it. The thing is, it keeps blowing up, and every time we are returned to some earlier point in time, and the trick is to figure out where the bomb is sooner every time, and, you know, not blow anyone up.

I was there with my aunt and cousins, possibly my mom and grandmother, and I kept running straight to where the bomb is (it’s at the conductor’s stand in the concert hall), and seeing how it turns out. Everyone watches in tense anticipation for the divers to go into this heavy water tank, to deactivate the thing shaped like a giant black woman’s head with cornrolls. I guess we figure that there is no point is running, ‘cuz if the bomb goes off, we will all be dead anyway. So I’m pretty high up, and at the most intense moment, I threw a poker chip into the other tank (the one the divers weren’t in), and the crowd gasped and stared at me. But the divers went into the other tank to retrieve that chip, and then deactivated the bomb successfully this time. I believe it had to do with the timing and delay because they were retrieving my chip. The woman’s head thing rose out of the water, and somehow we knew it was God. The crisis is over, and people jumped into the heavy water tank to swim in jubilation. I hugged my cousin and said to the younger one, “Remember this day forever”.

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions as to how wacked my brain is.

The other day, I was biking and approaching a Don't Cross sign flashing (yeah, I was biking on the sidewalk), but when I zoomed into the intersection, the sign changed back to Green for Crossing. Ever since then I've been thinking that I have super powers.

5 comments:

Joshua Wong said...

I swear I've seen that happen too... Except I was driving. The light was green, but the pedestrian sign was a flashing hand. But when I got closer, the hand turned into the person walking symbol. There were two other people in the car with me who can confirm my story so I'm not CRAZY. We all looked at each other and almost simultaneously asked "Did you see that?"

Personally, I blame someone using my traffic light hack: http://wongjihming.blogspot.com/2006/08/traffic-light-hack.html

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Anonymous said...

Which whacked out flavour would you like? Try this dream: you are at your own execution, by excruciatingly slow axe or something, and you physically feel the blood pooling in your throat while in your dream, you're still alive...

By the way, what are cornrolls? You mean those plastic cylindrical things that grandmothers put in their hair before bed?

Joyce

Anonymous said...

yvonne -- aren't they called "dregs"?

joyce

m_whiz said...

w> you have way too much time on your hands ;)

j> I don't know what the technical difference between the two might be. How are things going?