Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Where I learn things in my sleep
I dreamed my family and I were being chased by an evil president who wanted to make it illegal to talk about God on MySpace. We were hiding in his hotel suite when Mom suddenly decided to explain to me how we had the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and even though he was an evil president, he couldn't do all that much to us because we had these rights. (Turns out, when I woke up, everything she had told me in the dream was stuff she had been telling the kids during school. Apparently I was hearing all that, right down to a statement she made about evil presidents not being able to do all that much to us.)
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Where all my MySpace friends disappear
I dreamed that all but 11 of my friends quit MySpace. I could actually SEE their names disappearing off my list. I was getting so frustrated and kept thinking, "No! Hold on! Hold on! Don't leave me!"
Then, a bit later, Fofololo posted something on her xanga that was apparently an "algorithm" for making interactive fiction games. It looked really easy, so I thought I'd download it. Never got to see how it worked, though, because I woke up as soon as I downloaded it.
Then, a bit later, Fofololo posted something on her xanga that was apparently an "algorithm" for making interactive fiction games. It looked really easy, so I thought I'd download it. Never got to see how it worked, though, because I woke up as soon as I downloaded it.
Labels: fofololo, myspace, xanga
Friday, March 03, 2006
Where I was playing the weird computer game
I dreamed I was playing some sort of computer game, where you would keep trying to get tasks done and then things would come up to prevent it. Like you had to leave the house, but you couldn't leave without your oxygen helmet. So you had to go back to get your oxygen helmet, but you couldn't get the microwave door open. (For some reason you kept your oxygen helmet in the microwave.) So you got the door open, but then you couldn't figure out how to strap on the helmet. And so on. If you got something wrong, you died and then had to start all over.
I was the very first person to play this game and then, for some reason, it really caught on and people started playing it all the time. The initial game page started looking like a MySpace profile, with the Top 8 space being filled with the last eight people to sign up for an account on this game site. I got so ticked with having to open up the "See All Friends" page and then scroll down to like the 200th page to find my site, that I stopped playing the game.
Then the game sort of half turned into reality. I was playing it, but it was really me (except I looked like Sarah L) and I was standing on this wooden staircase that looked sort of like a fire escape. It was really foggy. My creative writing instructor from the college came walking up the stairs and said, "Isn't this game great?" I said sure, even though I didn't really like it. She continued with, "And don't you just love how once you say something you can't ever take it back?" I said, "Actually, I don't like that very much," and she said, "Oh, well, I love it!" and just continued up the stairs.
I was the very first person to play this game and then, for some reason, it really caught on and people started playing it all the time. The initial game page started looking like a MySpace profile, with the Top 8 space being filled with the last eight people to sign up for an account on this game site. I got so ticked with having to open up the "See All Friends" page and then scroll down to like the 200th page to find my site, that I stopped playing the game.
Then the game sort of half turned into reality. I was playing it, but it was really me (except I looked like Sarah L) and I was standing on this wooden staircase that looked sort of like a fire escape. It was really foggy. My creative writing instructor from the college came walking up the stairs and said, "Isn't this game great?" I said sure, even though I didn't really like it. She continued with, "And don't you just love how once you say something you can't ever take it back?" I said, "Actually, I don't like that very much," and she said, "Oh, well, I love it!" and just continued up the stairs.
Labels: amanda e, myspace, sarah l
